Utah's Hogle Zoo will feature some of the 50,000 individual bees that an artist is seeking to paint all over the world through a global art initiative.
SALT LAKE CITY — For as much as Matt Willey knows of bees, he sheepishly admits he didn't know much about them well into his 30s.
Willey, an artist who has painted murals depicting all sorts of subjects over the globe, put the bee out into his backyard where it later died. However, having that interaction inspired Willey to learn more about bees and ultimately changed the subject of his work. Willey has since reached one-fifth of his goal, painting realistic-looking bee murals across the world. Some of his recent work is being completed in North Carolina and Louisiana after he wrapped up a mural in China last year.
His goal is that it will stop zoo visitors in their tracks, potentially seeing bees in a new light the way he did 15 years ago.Willey has already added about a dozen honeybees toward his 50,000 goal on the side of the forthcoming Norma W. Matheson Education Animal Center, a part of the newnow set to open in the spring. The mural is still under construction, though.
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