JULIE HUTCHINS ASH / Kindness Mural

2022

Kindness Mural is co-sponsored by non-profit organizations Sanpete Kindness and Granary Arts.

Kindness Mural was created by mural artist Julie Hutchins Ash with the help of local children, students, and community members – and it serves as a visual reminder of the message in the children’s song, Kindness Begins With Me by Clara W. McMaster (1969).

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.

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.”

Kindness Mural is located at Ephraim Sports Park, 210 E 300 N, Ephraim, UT 84627

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.