July 19, 2020
Walls for Women Kicks Off! Here’s Where to Find New Murals in Tennessee
If I ever thought planning a mural festival that spans 10 cities in one very long and spread out state was going to be easy, I’m now...
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July 13, 2020
Fact or Fiction: Debunking Myths About Murals and Public Art
As we enter our home stretch for Walls for Women—the first mural of which begins this weekend—I’m up to my ears in more small-town...
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April 24, 2020
Using Murals in Marketing and Social Media: Are You Violating Someone’s Copyright?
We talk a lot about public art around here and how it can be a great marketing tool for your city, both from a tourism standpoint, but also...
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April 14, 2020
About Those Wings Murals: A Plea from Artists Everywhere
Five years into running our creative placemaking nonprofit, we’ve started to see a pattern anytime we approach a business owner about...
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March 8, 2020
Paint It Female: We’re Celebrating the 19th Amendment with Walls for Women!
I mentioned that over in our neck of the woods, we’re working on three big things that will consume most of our year. The first is the...
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October 31, 2019
Do More Art: We Produced Our First Mural Festival
Last year, SVV and I organized River Romp in partnership with our friends at L&H Distributing as a way to fundraise for a mural and give a...
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October 7, 2019
Anti-Bullying Mural in Manchester: Remembering Those Touched by Suicide
We were on our way to Oklahoma City when we heard the devastating news: A local teen, Channing Smith, in our former town of Manchester,...
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September 23, 2019
Can Government Regulate Art? The Many Nuances of Mural Law
The more SVV and I have fallen down the bottomless rabbit hole that is the mural world, the more we’ve learned that a lot of things...
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August 19, 2019
The Good of the Hive: Where Mural Art and Activism Collide
There are some people who, when you meet them online, you immediately know are your people—long before you ever cross paths in person. For...
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July 28, 2019
Art Talk: How to Start a Mural Program in Your Own Town
When we set out to launch a nonprofit dedicated to creative placemaking in our community a couple years ago, neither of us really knew what we...
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