Press Release: Mayor Bowser Announces MuralsDC to Install Six Original Works in Five Wards
News Release: Executive Office of the Mayor, Department of Public Works and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
August 8, 2019
CONTACT:
Susana Castillo (EOM)
Nancee Lyons (DPW)
Jeffrey Scott (CAH)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Department of Public Works (DPW) announced that this week the MuralsDC program will begin creating six new murals in Wards 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7. The new mural in the popular 14thand U Street corridor will include possibly the city’s tallest portrait, featuring jazz musician and native Washingtonian Buck Hill, who passed away in 2017.
“Murals and other street art are a rich part of DC’s vibrant cultural life and reflect the diversity and beauty of our unique local neighborhoods,” said Mayor Bowser. “Promoting public murals is another way we are celebrating and supporting DC’s burgeoning art scene.”
MuralsDC is funded by DPW and works in cooperation with the Commission on the Arts and Humanities. It is one of several tools that DPW uses to help beautify District corridors and celebrate the art of graffiti. Since 2007, the program has installed more than 80 murals – 70 of which are still visible – in every ward of the District on building walls donated by commercial property owners or the District government.
“MuralsDC helps ensure that building walls are transformed into works of beauty symbolizing the city’s nature, arts, and residents rather than being subjected to graffiti vandalism,” said DPW Director Christopher Geldart. “As the artists begin their work, we invite the community to visit the six locations for a live art experience.”
Learn more about MuralsDC at muralsdcproject.com, on Instagram at @muralsdc, and on Twitter at @Murals_DC.
The locations and artists are as follows:
| Ward | Artist | Location |
| 1 | Joe Pagac | 1925 14th Street, NW |
| 2 | Aniekan Udofia | 1232 9th Street, NW |
| 4 | Kaliq Crosby | 3400 13th Street, NW |
| 4 | Cita Sadeli (CHELOVE) | 104 Kennedy Street, NW |
| 5 | Federico Frum (Mas Paz) | 1827 West Virginia Avenue, NW |
| 7 | Eric B Ricks | 5600 East Capitol Street, NE |
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