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Photo gallery: Neighborhood driveways transformed into chalk art display

The third annual Neighborhood Chalk Festival took place in the Creek Road Terrace neighborhood of Sandy, Utah, on June 12-13, 2026. Organized by local residents, the event transformed driveways into a temporary outdoor gallery, with families, children, and local artists creating colorful chalk artworks. Photojournalist Rio Giancarlo captured participants like Hillary Barney, Melody Tripp, Caitlin Mortensen, and Lily Barney in action, along with finished pieces including a fish, a bird, the Salt Lake Temple, and a Zoolander-inspired "Magnum" portrait.

This art exhibit has traveled from coast to coast. Now it’s opening in Utah

An art exhibition titled "Instrumentos de silencio" ("Instruments of Silence") created by Argentine Latter-day Saint artists Susana Silva and Gonzalo Silva is opening at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City on January 16. The exhibition, which explores how memory and music were used to capture and codify the changes of colonization in Argentina, was awarded the 2023 Ariel Bybee Endowment prize by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. It has previously traveled from Sargent’s Daughters art gallery in New York City to the Graduate Theological Union Library in Berkeley, California, before arriving in Utah.