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SALT LAKE CITY — The impact of female movers and shakers on Salt Lake City's west side will be a subject of a new mural in the Rose Park neighborhood.
Wasatch Community Gardens' Rose Park location will be the site of a new mural honoring past and present influential west side women.
Better Days, a nonprofit focusing on women's history, is partnering with other community organizations on the mural. Katherine Kitterman, the organization's executive director, said the goal is to introduce everyone — not just women and girls — to female role models in their community.
"We're really committed at Better Days to making sure that we are highlighting and elevating underrepresented voices in our history," she said. "We're just trying to focus, especially with this mural project, on highlighting women from communities who are not usually in the history books, because we think that that's really important to help restore them to the narrative and help their voices shine."
Better Days has commissioned local artist Bill Louis. His work has included a mural honoring Margarita Satini, an activist in the Utah Pacific Islander community who died of COVID-19 complications in 2020; as well as "Where We Belong," a mural at Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City that depicts the growing diversity and culture of the city.
Community members can nominate women and west side landmarks they'd like to see featured in the mural through a Google form. Although all suggestions will be considered, priority will be given to suggestions from individuals from west side communities. Nominations close Friday, and the mural is scheduled to be completed by June 30.
"We're asking for community input about who are people who made a difference in your community so that we can have this be representative and something that also really reflects our community," Kitterman said. "When you know that somebody right here in your own community stood up and made change happen and you know, solve the problem, you know, did something great. I think that changes your view of yourself and what you can do."
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