Utah artist told he must change his strip club mural design and that all murals must be painted

Utah artist told he must change his strip club mural design — and that all murals must be painted with ‘neutral earth-tone’ colors

A Utah artist said he’s been told to change the design for a mural he had planned to paint on the side of a South Salt Lake strip club — and that all murals in the city must now follow neutral color palettes.

Shae Petersen, an award-winning artist who signs his work SRIL, says he met with South Salt Lake officials on Wednesday and was told to alter his proposal to paint a stylized panther and a woman teasing a bare shoulder on the side of the Exotic Kitty, a strip club at 3055 S. State St.

The South Salt Lake arts council had given full approval of his original design, but the city planning commission denied Petersen a permit in December, saying the mural wasn’t really a mural but a sign advertising Exotic Kitty — a violation of a city ordinance for sexually oriented businesses.

On Wednesday, Petersen says he was given a new stipulation — all murals in South Salt Lake must follow a “neutral earth-tone color palette.”

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