Ruby Chacon’s ‘Masterpiece of Healing’ in downtown Salt Lake City
Published by Professor Les October 11th, 2007 in Community Dialogue, Hispanic heritage, Current Events, Religion, Fine Art. Tags: catholic community services of utah, deseret news, intermountain healthcare, ruby chacon, Salt Lake City, zions bank.
Once again, local artist Ruby Chacon has graced the downtown landscape with a spectacular mural at the new Catholic Community Services of Utah building at 745 East 300 South.
The mural exemplifies the positive healing mission of the center that houses treatment services, men and women’s residential substance abuse programs, refugee resettlement and immigration, and administration offices.
The mural is part of a $3 million capital renovation campaign for CCS – helped by significant donations from such community partners as Intermountain Health Care and Zions Bank.
And, The Deseret News in an Oct. 9 editorial found good cause to praise the mural and its public unveiling – attended by more than 150 people who represented virtually every major stripe of community leadership – as a hopeful symbol in the city’s ongoing restless struggle to “bridge the divide.” I close with the News’ apt description:
“In the tradition of the great Mexican muralists Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera, Chacon’s mural is completely visceral — ‘Straight from the gut,’ she says. She has included members of her own family (two who succumbed to substance addiction), crying children, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Aztec trumpeters blowing on conch shells and the Great Mother of the world giving birth to a child of light while tattooing an image of the Virgin on the back of a young man struggling to embrace his faith.”
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