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One's options for Christmas shopping may be limited at The Gateway, with so many empty stores — but the space is getting repurposed as a place for art installations.

Nine local artists have created one-of-a-kind art installations in the unused store windows in the mall, along Rio Grande Street between 50 North and 200 South in downtown Salt Lake City.

The Gateway's Art Shop Project is a cooperative effort with the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Urban Arts Alliance, the University of Utah, the Downtown Alliance and other groups. The installations are expected to stay up through the end of the year.

"We're constantly trying to reimagine how to change the traditional mall concept," said Bergendi Hatch, The Gateway's creative director, in a statement. "One of our primary goals with the next phase is to distill some of the best, most unique parts of the city into our space by injecting an array of public art initiatives into the property — from murals and graffiti, to sculpture and rotating installations, and even performing arts."

Here are the artists in the Art Shop Project and their works:

• David Baddley, a professor of art and photography at Westminster College, has projections of his photos in one storefront.

• Camille Overmore, a communications graduate and current sculpture student at the University of Utah, has created a winter landscape using cellophane, pipe cleaners and light.

• Artist Soon-Ju Kwan's installation is about contemplation and how thoughts turn inward when it's dark and cold.

• Brady Peterson uses paper and light to create an array of icicles.

• Sarina Villareal's window, solid green against a background of a cityscape, explores the nature of memories as they fade into generality.

• Sarah Peterson, a senior at the University of Utah, turns stylized animal images into a massive snowflake.

• Briana McLaren, an art student at the University of Utah, is inspired by her religion, her feminism and her interest in mental health for a triptych of intricate hand-cut figures that represent the heart, mind and soul.

• Carol Sogard's Christmas trees are made of reclaimed plastic bags as a statement on consumer culture and sustainability. Sogard was assisted by Michelle Guymon and Helen McNally.

• The Sign Witches created a handmade winter landscape out of paper and foil.