Three Creeks Confluence Park is the site where Red Butte Creek, Emigration Creek, and Parley’s Creek join together and empty into the Jordan River. Previously a paved-over dead end, the confluence has been day-lighted and transformed into a site for community gathering, recreation, education, and restored riparian habitat. Each of the twenty laser cut steel panels that comprise the fence on this pedestrian bridge was design by a different Utah artist. These one-of-a-kind public artworks were selected by Salt Lake City’s Art Design Board from over 160 proposals and were created specifically for the Three Creeks Site. Many of the designs are by artists with a connection to the Glendale neighborhood, where the park is located, or to the unique hydrology of Salt Lake City. Themes include Salt Lake City’s waterways, the natural life they support, and the communities that live in the Glendale. These laser cut designs were created using only negative space (the holes cut away by the laser) and positive space (the remaining steel); each part of the designs is connected to the whole.

• Photo 1: Tooza Design, Hope
• Photo 2: Al Denyer, Mapping the Source; Three Creeks
• Photo 3: Cara Jean Hall, Salt
• Photo 4: Ann Chen, Winged Gathering
• Photo 5: Reihanah Noori, Transparent Flow
• Photo 6: Rosa Bandeirinha, Urbe
• Photo 7: Joshua Graham, Colliding Eddies
• Photo 8: Joseph Toney, Fluidity
• Photo 9: Matt Monsoon, Re:Union
• Photo 10: Lola Reyes, The Confluence of Resiliency
• Photo 11: Karl Hale, Flight
• Photo 12: Beto Conejo, Sombras del 104
• Photo 13: Jonathan Hale and Jennifer Hale, Cottonwood Snow
• Photo 14: Hank Mattson, Cartwhell
• Photo 15: Graham Rich, Horizon
• Photo 16: Elisabeth Bunker, Russian Sage
• Photo 17:  Gyorge Ann Yawn, Family
• Photo 18: Claire Taylor, ­River Snakes
• Photo 19: Chanté Burch, Pride
• Photo 20: biltslouisart, ­Hibiscus

This project was made possible through the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program, with support from Salt Lake City’s Department of Parks and Public Lands; Metal Arts Foundry, which fabricated the artwork; and Trevor Dahl, who provided technical assistance on the project. Photos by Logan Sorenson.