- A pink phone booth in Salt Lake City invites messages of hope for the Great Salt Lake.
- The project aims to inspire action through positive messaging.
- Funded by a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, the project includes various art installations and a podcast.
SALT LAKE CITY — A pink phone booth has been showing up around Salt Lake City, encouraging callers to leave a message of hope for the Great Salt Lake.
The interactive art pop-up is called the Great Salt Lake Hopeline. It was created by Han Calder, Nick Carpenter and Ben Doxey in an effort to change the messaging around the lake.
“A lot of the messages around the Great Salt Lake are doom and gloom,” Calder said. “We thought, if someone is sick, you can give them hope and hopefully that can help them get better by just inspiring them.”…