Granary Arts invites you to join us Saturday, July 30, 2022 / 10am for the unveiling of Kindness Mural , a community project co-sponsored by non-profit organizations Sanpete Kindness and Granary Arts. Spearheaded by artist Julie Hutchins Ash with the help of local children, students, and community members – it serves as a visual reminder of the message in the children’s song, Kindness Begins With Me by Clara W. McMaster (1969).
Kindness Mural is located at the Ephraim Sports Park, 210 East 300 North, Ephraim, Utah 84627.
Free and open to the public. Come get a free Sanpete Kindness yard sign and enjoy light refreshments.
Sanpete Kindness, is a non-profit organization founded by Linda Christiansen in response to the loss of her son. Their mission is to share positive messaging in the local community as an early intervention method for suicide prevention and to reach those in crisis.They do this by distributing yard signs with messages of encouragement throughout the community.
Ash says, “The power in a simple positive message can be transformative. Everyone struggles, and everyone is deserving of kindness. Along the journey of transformation, in times of darkness and despair, it is the kindness of others that will lift and inspire us, until we emerge from the darkness a new creature, whole and beautiful.”
About the Artist
Julie Hutchins Ash has been painting murals for 35 years. She began her career in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area as a single mother of 4 painting movie advertisements on a chain of video stores. Eventually, her commercial work expanded to include more permanent murals in theaters, airports, and concert venues. Prior to her work as a muralist, Julie graduated from Arizona State University, and exhibited in galleries in Scottsdale and throughout the state of Arizona. She has completed many “Welcome” murals for cities in the western region and was the Grand Canyon South Rim’s first Artist in Residence, painting a large mural at their Shrine of the Ages. She was commissioned to paint the 112’ Heroes Mural in Prescott, AZ for the 19 firefighters who perished while trying to save their neighbor.