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ST. GEORGE —From '80s nightclubs to local restaurants and mountainous bedroom walls, one artist's work is popping up around town. And it's newsworthy.
"I've probably done 170-ish to 200 murals," Arturo (Art) Sanchez said. "And then countless sketches, hundreds of tattoo designs for people. Just artwork stuff. I love it."
Sanchez, the artist behind Cure4Art, said he grew up with a love for the creative. As a child, he remembers watching Woody Woodpecker and wanting to draw cartoons of his own.
In school, he sat in the back of the classroom so he could draw on the corners of his work without the teacher knowing. In fifth grade, his class was given an assignment to draw different things on a set of Post-it notes, but he drew a small book instead. The teacher loved his work so much that the following month, the entire class completed the same project.
"That was the first time I felt like I ever had an influence on anything artwork," Sanchez said.
Once he began to create artwork from a grid, it changed everything. As he focused on each square one by one, it led to his first large-scale wall art inside a burger restaurant in Anaheim, California.
