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“Street Theory” Multi-Year Initiative, “A Canvas of Culture,” Brings Dazzling Murals to Boston Public Schools: Detour, Don Rimx, Spaik, Felipe Ortiz and Silvia Lopez Chavez

February 6, 2025

In 2024, the award-winning creative agency Street Theory‘s multi-year initiative, A Canvas of Culture — under the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture — brought several vibrant, breathtaking murals to various school locations in Boston. The luscious mural featured above “Together, We Rise” — located at the Joyce Kilmer K-8 Lower School in West Roxbury — was painted by Denver-based artist Thomas Evans aka as Detour. Several more images of  A Canvas of Culture murals currently gracing Boston Public Schools — all completed this past summer — follow:

Orlando-based Don Rimx, “Garden of Beginnings” and “Roots of Empowerment,” located at the Lee Academy Pilot School in Dorchester

Mexican muralist Israel “Spaik” Guerra Romero, “In Lak’ech Hala Ken – Yo soy tu – tu eres otro yo,”  located at Curtis Guild Elementary School in East Boston

Colombian artist Felipe Ortiz, “Umana Rising,” located at Mario Umana Academy in East Boston

Dominican-American artist Silvia Lopez Chavez, “Brilla,” located at Rafael Hernandez K-8 Dual Language School in Roxbury

A Canvas of Culture is currently commissioning several new, original, long-term murals and 2D public art installations at Boston Public School sites across the city. Each project budget will range from $20,000 – $175,000. Specific details and applications are available here and here.  The deadline for submissions is February 26, 2025 at 5 p.m. ET.

Photos of 2024 A Canvas of Culture murals by OLP Creative

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“Murals for the Movement” Brings Inspiring Public Artworks to DUMBO, Brooklyn with: Marka27, Cey Adams & Sophia Dawson

November 30, 2021

Launched by Street Theory — a creative agency founded by Victor “MARKA27” Quinonez and Liza Quinonez in 2020 as a response to police brutality —  Murals for the Movement is intent on rebuilding communities with “uplifting large-scale murals and public art by Black artists and artists of color.”

Under the curatorial direction of Street Theory, several large, inspiring public artworks by Marka27, Cey Adams and Sophia Dawson recently surfaced in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The image featured above is one segment of a huge, boldly colored neoindigenous mural celebrating “the African Diaspora and contemporary Afro Futurism” painted by the multidisciplinary international artist MARKA27.

A close-up from another segment of Marka27‘s huge mural, “Back to the Essence,” 195 Gold St

NYC’s legendary Cey Adams brings a message of LOVE to Prospect + Adams St. with two murals

And directly facing it–

Brooklyn-based, socially conscious visual artist Sophia Dawson, “Standing in the Gap,” Front St. between Pearl St. & Adams St.

Close-up

This project was funded by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and DUMBO Improvement District utilizing NYCDOT property. The murals will remain on display through spring, 2022.

Photos: Lois Stavsky

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