Artist: Miriam Gutierrez

Instagram: _mermacita_

Salt Lake Neighborhood: Great Salt Lake


My name is Miriam Gutierrez and I am an illustration and mural artist based out of Salt Lake City, UT but originally from the central valley of California. Pencil and ink are my tools to create intricate detailed drawings. I have recently explored other mediums like mural painting and combine all techniques to create my work. My creative approach to art is deeply inspired by nature, focusing on fine details and textures and at times coming from a unique perspective. Inspiration can be found anywhere if we simply just be in the moment and take the time to observe our surroundings. This is the best way for me to express myself and to interpret how I view the world we live in.



Mural Description:

One thing I enjoy about living in Salt Lake is being able to travel a short distance to the next adventure. The Wasatch mountain range is every outdoor enthusiast’s playground. With snow-capped mountains and minutes away from major urban areas you can also fish for the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout. Just west of the city you will arrive in Magna, Utah where you can experience the comfort of living in a small town. Most of the locals grew up here and have a long history with the Kennecott Copper Mine. It is close enough to head down to the city or maybe even visit the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island for a day trip. There you can find wildlife like the American Bison roaming open grasslands and shorelines inhabited by little critters like brine flies, but don’t worry they are harmless. My creative approach for this mural is deeply inspired by the nature that surrounds us and from simply taking the time to explore the area and understand why we call this place home.



The Copper Mine Saloon

9071 West Main St, Magna, UT 84044

Artist: Jimmi Toro

Instagram: jimmitoro

Salt Lake Neighborhood: Salt Lake City


Jimmi Toro is an American contemporary artist, painter, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer. His art speaks to a balance of control & chaos, struggle & victory, primarily focusing on the human element and the vast emotional connection we all have to each other. Jimmi’s artistic influences include the surrealism of Joan Miró, the prolific variety of Pablo Picasso, the pure indulgence of the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh, and the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.



Jimmi has also created art for various charity related projects with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Make a Wish Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, and The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative, and Gems for Gems in Canada.



Mural Description:

This mural represents a movement of nature that has evolved into an abstraction of shapes as they travel up and out. The sharp angular shapes of the crystals subtly play with the fluid dominant shapes suggesting a robust community interacting harmoniously in this dance of diversity. And to borrow from Visit Salt Lake I was inspired by “people embracing differences and encouraging new perspectives”. I have infused outlines of their angular logo and their color palette into an abstract dance of shapes symbolizing flora, fire, and the wind, all painted in a progressive abstract contemporary style symbolizing Salt Lake’s progressive push forward.



Industry

659 S. 600 W. SLC, UT 84104

Artist: Gerry Swanson

Instagram: silentswanart

Salt Lake Neighborhood: Sugar House



Gerry Swanson is a Salt Lake City Artist with a background in Fine Art and Graffiti. His work combines his love of spray-paint with his classical art education and pushes both genres into new artistic territory.



Mural Description:

“Milk and Honey” encompasses the natural essence of Salt Lake as well as symbolizes our county as a land of opportunity and diversity. The Caputo Family is a great example of strong heritage mixed with progressive ideals.



“Milk and Honey” is rich with symbolism. The Markhor Goat, salt crystals, and snowflakes represent the Caputo’s process within their Cheese Cave as well as our winter season. The honey bees are a nod to “The Beehive State” while the lily and rose are representative of the Italian Heritage.



Producing this mural was a realization of how a community is similar to a recipe; It takes an array of ingredients coming together to get it just right.



Caputo's Market & Deli

1516 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84105

Artist: Chris Peterson

Instagram: chrispetersonstudio

Salt Lake Neighborhood: Central City



Chris Peterson (b. 1975) grew up in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. He started painting in his twenties, inspired by backcountry travel across the American West. He studied painting at BYU and Kansas City Art Institute and spent time living and painting in New York City in the late 90’s. In 2001, Chris shifted to pursue a career working in conservation and community- building organizations. This work included Colorado River advocacy and restoration, rural development programs in Africa and Asia, and directing a community center and arts programs for Salt Lake City. Graduate studies at the University of Utah during this time earned Chris an M.P.A. in Nonprofits & Environmental Policy and an M.S. in Environmental Humanities. Chris taught elementary art (K-6) in 2009, which inspired him to begin moonlighting on murals and organizing community arts projects. In 2017, a series of wildlife murals led him back into the studio to refine his painting and design processes. His practice today includes studio work and custom murals. Chris lives in Holladay, Utah with his wife Lisa, four daughters, a lab, and seven chickens.



Mural Description:

She is “a little bit wild” and a whole lot of mama bear! “Queen Ursa” embodies the feminist ideals of power, fierceness and resilience while holding her feminine beauty and maternal strength close. She guards her den of cubs, adorned with a collage of embroidered, painted, and woven flowers sourced from around the world: the very fabric of women solidarity. And the neon rainbow stretches above, with “Salt Lake” quite literally at the end of the rainbow, highlighting a message of inclusivity, community, and the life we share here at the foot of the Wasatch.



Hip & Humble

1043 E. 900 S Salt Lake City, UT 84105

Artist: Matt Monsoon

Instagram: mattmonsoon.art

Salt Lake Neighborhood: Mountain Resorts


Matt is a Salt Lake City artist from the Guthrie Artist Studios - located downtown at 158E 200S, in SLC, Utah. These historic studios have inspired many of the city's notable artists, and have served as home base to Matt's creative work since 2009.

Matt’s expressive illustrative style not only evokes feeling, it pops with color, characters, nature, and storylines that keep the viewer returning to the art again and again. A sense of place, community, and of home, is found frequently in Matt's work, as well as multicultural artistic influences, ideas, and philosophies that rubbed off from a childhood spent growing up in places such as Okinawa, the UK, Germany, and the Philippines. Matt is an avid hiker, naturalist, and explorer - and a lover of wild Utah. This also heavily influences his work.



Mural Description:

This piece - tentatively titled "Raven Steals the Sun" captures one of my spirit animals, the raven, in a pose that allows the bird to also frame a scene of a pair of ravens soaring over Mount Millicent at twilight. I'm really hyped about the design.


The raven holds the sun in his beak - paying tribute to the Haida (Western Canada) peoples' legend of 'Raven Steals the Sun' where the trickster raven stole a ball of light from another world and brought it back to ours. Before that time, our world was completely dark. The raven was originally white, but in holding the burning ball of light, his feathers were blackened in dark soot. As the ball began to crumble in his beak, raven had to let go. The biggest chunk drifted off to become the sun, the second biggest became the moon, and the fragments that remained floated into the heavens to become the stars.



Brighton Resort

8302 S. Brighton Loop Rd, Brighton, UT 84121
Ski school building, slightly uphill from main entrance

Artist: Josh Scheuerman

Instagram: stenciljam

Salt Lake Neighborhood: South Valley


Josh Scheuerman is a painter, graphic designer and photographer known for using his artistic talents to promote community and environmental activism originally from West Valley City, UT. In 2016, Josh traveled to Spain to recreate a mural for the city of Sant Carles de la Ràpita he had originally painted in 2012. In 2017, he shared a retrospective of his work for Salt Lake Design Week titled, Act Like You Know What You are Doing. He was also in a group show, Urban Plein Air at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by THE BLOCKS, Salt Lake’s Cultural Core in September 2018. He was worked with numerous arts councils both as an artists and a liaison for the arts. Current and past clients include INDUSTRY, POWRD CORP, STRUCK, WeWork, Cafe Rio, Tru Hotel in Ogden, Laziz, and RoHa Brewery and Brighton Ski Resort among many others across the Salt Lake Valley totaling 100+ murals across the west. In the fall of 2021 he was voted Best Muralist by the community in Salt Lake City Weekly 2021 Readers Choice Awards.



Mural description:

I designed the mural with patterns and the branding of the distinct crystal for Visit Salt Lake brand guide, but also include Sandy cities color scheme to create an engaging and colorful mural titled ‘Renewed Spring’. I incorporated mountain/wild roses, apple blossoms, magnolias and peonies that renew each spring and bring with them the traditional cycle of life. The location of the mural, in Sandy, used to have a significant number of orchards in the shadow of the Wasatch Front and Lone Peak in particular. These rivers, being fed from the winter run off, the orchards and wild flowers thrived each spring. I wanted to combine nature into the new urban environment to remind us of the beauty around us everyday and bring a unique and accessible public art piece for everyone to enjoy year round.



South Town Mall

10450 S. State Street, SLC, Utah 84070
North East side, next to the food court entrance.

Artist: Traci O’Very Covey

Instagram: toverycovey

Salt Lake Neighborhood: South Valley


Artist Traci O’Very Covey was born in Salt Lake City and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah where she studied drawing, painting and graphic design. She is known for her lyrical paintings of intertwining elements from nature and overlapping symbolic figures. The various elements in her art interact and mingle harmoniously with a strong interplay between color, shape and line creating dynamic and unified compositions that offer a sense of discovery. “Infusing spaces with beauty and meaning through art and bringing joy to people’s everyday lives is my artistic intention.”



Traci’s art is included in the Salt Lake County Art Collection, has been exhibited in various galleries and museums including the Springville Museum of Art, and the Utah Museum of Fine Art. Traci has received many commissions to create art in public spaces. Her metal sculpture installations enliven city streets, and her monumental murals are on the exteriors and interiors of public buildings and corporate spaces in various locations around the Salt Lake valley from Eagle Mountain to the Eccles Theater and in the new Salt Lake International Airport.




Mural Description:

Unconventional. Open-hearted. Majestic. These describe the feelings this art evokes as well as the Salt Lake valley. The imagery in the mural centers on the diverse and friendly people surrounded by mountains intertwined with elements of both culture and nature. The art is a visual portrayal of entertainment and world-class arts offerings, outstanding restaurants, nightlife, and of course the scenic outdoors where all kinds of recreation are close at hand. It is symbolic of the dynamic cultural aspects of the Salt Lake valley and its stunning natural surroundings and wide open spaces. All of these elements are connected by angled shapes of color conveying the many facets of this unique place and its inherent beauty and people.



Mountain America Expo Center

9575 S. State, Sandy UT 84070
Near the south entrance

Artist: Jorge Arellano

Instagram: stenciljam

Salt Lake Neighborhood: Salt Lake City



Born in Taxco, Guerrero. and raised in Mexico City, He moved to Salt Lake City in the late 1990’s, leaving all the things that passionate him behind, family and friends, music and art. Jorge started to paint stencil graffiti at a very early age, small paintings, clothing mostly for friends and a few walls on the streets. Jorge never knew what it meant to him as an artistic expression, he just did it for fun and to escape from a crude reality that was living as a punk rocker in a very judgmental society.



Mural Description:

This mural was made with the vision of local students of Rose Park, who worked together on the design to represent the different people who live in this neighborhood, while honoring the diversity of cultures and traditions. The students decided to focus on making this mural with Polynesian and Mexican themes, which is reflected in the patterns and colors we chose for this design.



SLC Center for Science Education

1350 Goodwin Ave, SLC, UT 84116

Artist: Bill Louis - BiltsLouisArt

Instagram: biltslouisart

Salt Lake Neighborhood: West Valley



William M. Louis or Bill is the Artist behind BiltsLouisArt. Born in Suva on the island of Fiji, Bill’s artistic talents and inspirations are multifaceted akin to his diverse cultural heritage. His father is Fijian, Samoan and German and his mother is from the island of Tonga in Vava’u. At only 1 year old, he migrated with his mother and two of his five siblings to the US in 1984. Growing up in Reno, NV, Bill has lived in various cities including Seattle and San Francisco, before moving to Salt Lake City in 2011. Pursuing a passion for the arts from an early age, his stylistic influences pay homage to an experience of surveying vibrant topographies and adapting to changing cultural landscapes, while remaining dedicated to his family and a Polynesian culture rich with tradition.



Cultivating a visual language of his own, Bill’s influences cull from West Coast Graffiti art to early contemporary masters such as Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. His street art influences are Revok, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Mr. G. Many of Bill’s recent work have been inspired by digital and cultural art as well. Emblematic of his knack for merging stylistic identities, BiltsLouisArt is the product of Bill’s graffiti street name "BiltsOne." Including his legal name and Art as a DBA. Bill has dreamt of utilizing his artistic talents and starting his own business in which, he has been able to establish.



Bill specializes in a variety of mediums including Acrylic and Oil Paints, Watercolor, ink, aerosol, sculpture, Music production and Digital Graphic arts. Bill has been a featured artist in many galleries that have showed at UMOCA, Studio Elevn and Impact Hub. He has worked on many projects across the Wasatch front. Bill has collaborated with many street artists from Los Angeles to London. He has painted a variety of businesses both public and private including a 3,200 square foot mural in Sandy, UT at The South Town Mall.



His latest work comprises of a combination of his Polynesian culture, graffiti and family. Bill hopes that his art can influence others to use their creative side and to utilize their talents to inspire individuals of all walks of life. Art can be very therapeutic and can help heal people in various ways. Bill would like to help create a pathway for merging Polynesian artists as well as all creators to leverage their passion of art to make a difference in their communities.



Bill resides in Eagle Mountain, Utah. He is married to his beautiful wife Voni Louis and has 4 beautiful children from ages 5 to 10 years old.



Mural Description:

This image of a Pacific Islander girl who is a 3rd generation American. Her grandparents migrated from the tropical South Pacific Islands to the Utah deserts. This is her home, she holds her future in her "hand". She is the new Salt Lake for many more generations.



Valley Fair Mall

3601 S. 2700 w. WVC, UT 84119
South side of mall