Street Art

February 23, 2026

SpraySeeMO: A Mural Festival Bringing Sprawling Street Art to Kansas City [Interview]

Kansas City, Missouri, is known as the City of Fountains, but it’s also become a city of murals. You just have to know where to look. Throughout its downtown, particularly in the Crossroads Arts District, large-scale street art graces the sides of buildings, bringing vibrant colors, casts of characters, and graffiti-inspired designs to the urban landscape. Facilitating these pieces is SpraySeeMO (a play on KCMO, the nickname for Kansas City)

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January 22, 2026

Artist Explores Themes of Empathy and Empowerment Through Powerful Public Art [Interview]

For most Americans, a cooler represents a place to store drinks for an outing with loved ones on a sunny day. But for others, it’s a symbol of work and survival, allowing many immigrant families to make a living by selling treats on the streets. Artist Victor Quiñonez, best known as Marka27, has devoted his career to sharing these points of view. Born in Mexico and raised in the U.S.

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December 29, 2025

Banksy’s Latest Mural Shines a Light on Unhoused Children During the Holidays

Embed from Getty Images Just before Christmas, Londoners awoke to Banksy’s latest mural. In this new, powerful piece, two children in winter coats lie on the ground, gazing upward, one reaching their arm out toward a distant star. The artwork stretches across the side of a row of garages in Bayswater, near bustling Queensway and the edges of Kensington Gardens.

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November 12, 2025

Colorful Animation Comes to Life as You Drive by 600-Foot-Long Street Mural

The streets of Indio, California, just got an animated pop of color. Mexican visual artist Hervey Garcia has unveiled a mural titled Liberation, which stretches across 600 feet of a sidewalk. What makes this artwork extra alluring is how it comes to life when you view it from a moving vehicle. The figures in the mural seem to gallop, transform, and fly alongside you.

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