Public Art and Murals

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1211+ words) The new "We Are CR" mural painted by local artist Thomas Clark is seen on the AdCraft print shop building, 309 Fifth Ave. SE, in downtown Cedar Rapids. A new mural by Ryan “Yanoe” Sarfati for United for Cures sits on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (178+ words) The Montgomery County Health Council, in partnership with RePlant Clarksville and the Clarksville Arts & Heritage Council, invites artists and artist teams to submit concepts for a public-art treatment for the pedestrian crossing at the Crossland Avenue entrance to Veterans Plaza....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (513+ words) CHARLESTON — A group of area residents spent their morning Aug. 31 celebrating their completed mural in the Homel Place ally. The mural, part of the city of Charleston’s Love Your Block program, features the image of a preacher boy who formerly…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (543+ words) As the saying goes in the classic baseball film Field of Dreams, “build it and they will come.” For the Elevate Artworks gallery on Fort Myers Beach, art lovers just need to see it and surely they will arrive in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1172+ words) A dilapidated and abandoned tower in Southside Chattanooga -- best known for its large graffiti art reading "JUNK" -- has a new cherry-colored sign on top that honors the lives of three dozen people, including a local man who was left paralyzed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) The city invited mural artists who love their block to beautify several crosswalks around town this weekend. Artists have been working on two crosswalks at the intersection of Callan Avenue and Mulford Street all weekend. An intersection at Elmwood Avenue…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (242+ words) United for Cures, a nationwide network of patient advocacy organizations, is set to unveil an exclusive piece of artwork titled Iowa is United for Cures Saturday, Aug. 29 in Cedar Rapids. The artist behind the mural, Ryan “Yanoe” Sarfati, is an…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (238+ words) Community Impact The Woodlands Arts Council, an arts and culture nonprofit organization, unveiled a new mural for permanent display at the Kevin Brady Community Center outside the Cathy Brady Ballroom on Aug “The Art of Gratitude” is a mural…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (687+ words) Students and families arriving at the Beachmont Veterans Memorial School could soon be greeted by a colorful new message reminding everyone who walks through the doors that they belong. A $4,000 Revere Local Cultural Council grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (363+ words) At an underpass near the busy intersection of Fountain Boulevard and Circle Drive, names and faces are being immortalized in clay, one ceramic tile at a time. “I would like to be remembered as a good human being,” Waller’s quote…...