Bryce Bushman

Bryce Ward Bushman

Born March 8, 1978, in Murray, UT, and died February 19, 2026, in Salt Lake City, UT. As the second of the six children of Rod and Chris Bushman, Bryce grew up in Kearns, UT. He graduated from Kearns High in 1996 with high honors as Salutatorian and a Sterling Scholar.

He played clarinet, was a talented pianist, sang with concert choir and Madrigals, and excelled in academics. Bryce worked on a fish processing boat in Alaska and served an LDS mission in Chicago, IL. He attended Utah State University where he graduated with high honors in landscape architecture. He enjoyed the opportunity of living and learning in a new place as he explored Europe and eastern Europe while participating in a student exchange program with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Bryce earned a master's degree in urban design from the University of Illinois at Chicago and then worked in Chicago at Wolff Clements.

Amazing opportunities fueled his spirit of adventure and took him all over the world. Bryce spent three years working at Guangxi Hualan Design in Nanning, China. His time in China allowed him to travel all over Asia, highlighted by working with elephants in Thailand. Bryce became a three-year Fulbright scholar and selected the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland to pursue a PhD in environmental psychology and place attachment. He explored the British Isles, Europe, Iceland, and Norway during this time. In 2014, Bryce returned to Utah. He worked for a time at Gear Express and then as a landscape architect at VODA Landscape and Planning. He also worked at The Work Hive as a site manager.

Bryce was a dynamic person with incredible talents and a brilliant, amazing mind. He was a life-long learner and had a fascination with and deep knowledge of too many topics to name. He loved animals and had ferrets, mink, and fish. Bryce was an artist. He painted, sculpted, quilted, and enjoyed designing and building amazing pet enclosures. Bryce designed and crocheted a unique and creative afghan for each of his nieces and nephews, whom he loved dearly and who were the light of his life. Bryce enjoyed flying kites and even made some of his own. He loved architecture and, just for fun, designed buildings, rail lines, and bridges and created plans for an arena to hold one million people. Bryce concentrated on a medium of laser-cut paper. He used intricately cut layers of paper to create striking pieces which focused on architecture, animals, and Star Wars.

Bryce was full of life and a joy to be around. He cared deeply about diversity issues and wanted all people to feel accepted and to be treated fairly. Bryce collected friends

wherever he went and will be missed dearly. A special thanks to Mark Morris and Lee

Beckstead, whose friendships had a meaningful impact on his life. Bryce leaves behind his parents Rod and Chris Bushman and his siblings Angie (Chad) Rosier, Tyler (Callie) Bushman, Kelsey Bushman, Coby (DaNette) Bushman, and Brennan (Jessica) Bushman as well as 20 nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life open house will be held on Saturday, March 21, 2026 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at The Work Hive, 159 West Broadway (300 South), Suite 200, Salt Lake City. There is street parking on 300 South and 200 West and a paid parking lot east of the building.