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Connecting Durham through creativity, one mural at a time. A collab with @cityofdurhamnc
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🚨New Mural Alert🚨

📍boom club @_boomclub 600 Foster St Suite B

🎨 mural by Zac Bender @brutalbohemian

What is boom club?
Build to support experimental art, music, and artists, it’s:
⚡️ part synth library
⚡️ part dance floor & venue
⚡️ part creative hub by @mural_durham

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6 months ago

🎨 A new mural is taking shape at the City Hall Annex!

Artist Britt Flood @b.l.flood is painting something bold, colorful, and beautiful for Durham. The Living Mural will incorporate native perennial flowering plants that will grow and climb up custom trellises on the wall.

She’ll be painting all week, with live plantings coming soon. 🌿The plants will take a few years to fully mature and will grow, evolve, and bloom over time.

Drive by catch it while it's coming alive.

👀Drop an emoji below to keep it going! taken in City of Durham by @mural_durham

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6 months ago

🎨 Call for Artists 💧
The City of Durham Cultural & Public Art Program, in partnership with Water Management, is seeking two artists to create murals along the Third Fork Creek Trail as part of the annual Imagine a Day Without Water initiative.

Selected artists will transform essential wastewater infrastructure into meaningful visual storytelling, sparking curiosity and conversation among trail users while supporting Durham’s participation in a national day to reflect on the value of water.

Artist Awards:
• 1 artist: two mid-size risers — $2,200
• 1 artist: one large riser — $2,600

Who should apply:
Triangle-based visual artists and muralists interested in public art, environmental themes, and community-focused storytelling.

📍 Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
🔗 Apply through the City’s Pre-Qualified Artist Registry (link in bio) by April 10!
✔️ Already in the Registry? You’re eligible—no need to reapply. by @mural_durham

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7 months ago

⚡️New murals in Durham!
💧Today @cityofdurhamnc employees were invited to Imagine a Day Without Water while they walked the South Ellerbe Trail to see three new murals by local artists.

Every October, the City’s Water Management Department invites our community to come together for “Imagine a Day Without Water”- a National Day of Action to highlight the value of water in our daily lives and the systems that deliver it. This year, Water Management teamed up with the Cultural & Public Art Program to collaborate with three regional artists on new murals along the Ellerbe Creek Trail.

Have you been out on the trail recently between W Knox St and W Club BIvd. ?

👇Let us know what you think about these new murals in the comments!

🎨 Murals by:
@nonperishable
@brutalbohemian
@_thomasbegley taken in South Ellerbe Creek Trail by @mural_durham

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a year ago

Was a great experience to paint this piece for @creativedurham under the “A day without water” initiative to bring awareness to how the job of water conservation is in our hands! This is painted in a few days on the Ellerbe Creek Trail.

Thank you to City of Durham Water Management for funding this project!
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#art #mural #murals #durham #adaywithoutwater #artreels taken in South Ellerbe Creek Trail by @mural_durham

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a year ago

⚡️Have you seen 👀 the new Dinosaur🦕 mural🦖 in downtown Durham⁉️
📍121 East Parrish Street
🎨 mural by Xiomara Colopy @xiodigitalart with help from Isabella Dearr @dearrbelladesigns
⚡️ 2250 square feet, 3 months, and 18 gallons of paint!
📸 photo courtesy of the artist
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➡️ Are you an artist working on a new mural in Durham? DM to collab or be featured! by @mural_durham

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a year ago

⚡️Something big is coming to Durham!
Wye Junction @wyejunction is almost complete and opening this fall — right across from the Historic Durham Athletic Park. The site will feature community spaces, retail, a public park that connects to the future Durham Rail Trail, and a very special canvas for public art. 🎨

🌟 @wyejunction salvaged a 35-foot oil tank from the historic Erwin Oil Co. and turned it vertical to become a landmark mural opportunity.

🌟 @wyejunction is now seeking mural artists to create Durham’s next Landmark canvas!

🖊️ 5 finalists will each receive a $500 stipend to submit mural proposals.

📅 RFQ deadline: Friday, September 5 at 5PM
📍 Learn more + apply at bit.ly/WyeMural taken in Durham, North Carolina by @mural_durham

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a year ago

⚡️#MuralDurham refresh complete ✔️
📍Glendale Ave near West Corporation St.

🎨 Bethany Bash’s neighborhood mural “Parts of a Whole” just got a fresh glow-up right here in Durham, NC 💥 Big love to everyone who helped bring this beauty back to life—because every piece (and person) matters! 💛

Originally installed in 2020, the mural was funded as a part of the City of Durham’s @cityofdurhamnc Neighborhood Improvement Services Department’s neighborhood grant program. The neighbors along Glendale Ave near West Corporation Street commissioned and worked alongside local artist Bethany Bash @bethanybash_art to create a colorful ground plane public artwork. Bethany Bash stated, “It is about small communities also being part of larger communities, and illustrates the act of coming together, as well as ripples from movement. It was also important for this piece that community members were involved in selecting the design, and in the installation process.”

Big thanks to @creativedurham and NIS for funding this mural restoration, and another shoutout to all of the neighbors that helped bring this beauty back to life! 🙌

📸 Drone pics were taken by David Chandler, neighborhood paint party pics courtesy the artist and @yoamyyo @artstigators

#MuralGlowUp #BethanyBash #DurhamVibes #PublicArtParty by @mural_durham

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a year ago

🚨 New Mural Alert!🚨
🎨 @art_of_anon
📍500 E Main parking deck off Elizabeth St
⚡️Over 60 Durham residents helped in the creation of this artwork, each paining a triangle of the mural.

💲Funded by @durhamcountygov
📸 @the.sarah.martin by @mural_durham

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a year ago

📣 Calling all mural artists! Apply to the Pre-Qualified Artist Registry to be considered for an upcoming mural project near the City Hall Annex!

🌱 The selected Artist or Artist Team for this project will design artwork to include a live planting, with a strong preference for vertical growth or vines, integrated into the mural and site.

📍The exterior wall is located near the City Hall Annex on the west-facing wall along N Mangum St.

📆 Submission deadline: 11:59 p.m., Thursday, May 15

💲 Total project budget: $30,000

🔗 Visit the link in the @creativedurham bio to see an image of the wall and learn more about the project! taken in Durham, North Carolina by @mural_durham

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a year ago

🎨 New Mural in progress! Fifty-five Durham residents came out to paint with @art_of_anon on Saturday.

“Community building is at the heart of our work and we feel is closely tied to our purpose for creating. We feel the element of collaboration has the ability to further connect people to public artwork in a meaningful and unique way, but most importantly, it connects us all to each other in a safe, intentional space.”
- @art_of_anon

This mural project is sponsored by the Durham County Public Art Program @durhamcountygov

Stay tuned for pictures of the finished artwork in the next few weeks!

📍500 E Main Parking Deck
📸 @the.sarah.martin taken in Durham, North Carolina by @mural_durham

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a year ago

🎉Durham has new public art at Wheels @wheelsdurham! Introducing "A Wheely Good Time" by award-winning artist Dare Coulter @darecoulter.

Fun Facts about the Artwork:
✨ Wheels Public Art is Coulter's largest public commission and the City of Durham's largest sculptural mixed media piece of public artwork to date.
✨ The artwork, titled "A Wheely Good Time," took over 16 months to design, fabricate, and install.
✨ The project was coordinated by Stephanie Minor and supervised by Rebecca Holmes of the Cultural & Public Art Program.
✨ The artwork began as digital designs by Coulter created using photo references of the skaters that participated in the Durham Central Park Skate Party.
✨ It was fabricated in Zebulon, NC by Oak City Customs (OCC) @oakcitycustoms.
✨ The team at OCC translated the artwork designs into cut files, then CNC cut & milled the figures from aluminum plate.
✨ Then, the figures were welded, sanded, polished, and transported to the powder coating facility.
✨ After the base color coat was applied, the figures returned to OCC to be hand-painted.
✨ OCC installed the sculptures and vinyl details were printed and applied to the pieces. by @mural_durham

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