La Rapita Mural 2016
In 2012, I lived in San Carlos de la Rapita for a summer and decided to paint a mural for the city I love. The first mural took a month with a lot of breaks and travels in between the start and completion. In 2016, I traveled back for 12 days and painted a total of 5 days and 1 full night to recreate the same mural with additional color with a roller, 2 1/2″ brush and patience. Thank you San Carlos, Rafa Baila, Lucas Samo, Evelyn Mayans, Gaby, Juan, Carlos, Christi and everyone else for the support and love. Go out and create beautiful things that are difficult, but inspire and you will have the ability to change the world.
Josh Scheuerman is a painter, graphic designer and photographer known for using his artistic talents to promote community and environmental activism in his native Salt Lake City and abroad. In early 2013, he collected 500+ pounds of plastic from the farthest corners of Utah for a public art installation called Four Corners: Eliminating Single Use Plastic Bags that was presented at TED-X SLC and PechKucha. In 2016, he traveled to Spain to recreate a mural for the city of Sant Carles de la Ràpita he had originally painted in 2012. In 2017, he shared a retrospective of his work for Salt Lake Design Week titled, Act Like You Know What You are Doing. He was also in a group show, Urban Plein Air at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by THE BLOCKS, Salt Lake’s Cultural Core in September 2018. His most recent work includes murals of historical sites and places, including one promoting preservation of the Bears Ears National Monument, after the Trump administration dramatically reduced its foot print in 2018.
