Friends and family of Lynn Public School artists come to view the works on display at the Lynn Public Schools All-City Art Exhibit at LynnArts. (Sheldon Jacobsohn) Purchase this photo Isaac […]

Beyond Walls has partnered with Lynn Public Schools and St. Marys to bring the classroom to the streets. (Ferns Francois) August 11, 2024 by Sidnee Short FacebookLinkedInXEmailCopy Link LYNN — Lynn Public Schools […]

August 8, 2024 by For the Item LYNN — Beyond Walls murals will be installed from Aug. 5 – 20 throughout downtown Lynn. Follow @beyondwallslynn on Instagram and Facebook for more information. Mr June @davidjunelouf […]

Apr 24, 2024 Photo: Brooke McCarthy/WBZ NewsRadio LYNN, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A nonprofit in Lynn has partnered with Boston Design Week to offer a tour of the city’s public artworks. Beyond Walls has […]

BY LISA HUGHES SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 / 6:06 PM / CBS BOSTON BOSTON – Beyond Walls founder Al Wilson describes his leap into the non-profit world as a “perfect storm.” In […]

BEYOND WALLS MURALS RETURN TO DOWNTOWN LYNN BY JAMES BARTLETT| August 15, 2023 Artist Kevin Ledo, center, works with Lynn youth from the Demakes Family YMCA to put the finishing touches on […]

🍽️ Calling all food lovers! 🌍 Discover the Downtown Lynn Cultural District restaurant guide, your passport to a world of flavors! 🌮🍝🌱 Lynn’s local restaurants offer a diverse array of […]

May 18, 2023 Photo: Beyond Walls LYNN, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The streets of Lynn will soon be a lot dimmer. Many of the vintage neon art installations that light up the city […]

BY EMILY PAULS| May 11, 2023   Vintage “Egg O Mat” sign in Lynn. This sign has been taken down and others are to follow. (Owen O’Rourke) LYNN — After more than […]

FINAL FRIDAYS: GALLERY NIGHT Join us on the last Friday of each month for Final Fridays! Each month features a different theme, music, art-making activities, and late-night fun at the […]

Beyond Walls welcomed a group from Arlington High School (Arlington Public Schools, MA) for a tour of the murals around Downtown Lynn last Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Students were brought […]

A piece of art commissioned by Beyond Walls in Lynn involves a rat made up of recycled materials. May 19, 2022. (Photo by Shira Schoenberg) UNCATEGORIZED Biotech’s next destination: Why […]

BY ANTHONY CAMMALLERI| September 18, 2022 Salem artist Anna Dugan works on her mural, The Three Guardians, on Washington Street in Lynn as part of Beyond Walls’ 2022 Street Art Tour. (Spenser […]

Photo: Brooke McCarthy / WBZ News Radio LYNN (WBZNewsRadio) – Lynn-based Beyond Walls is wrapping up their four city street-art tour at home in Lynn. “This is four artists on a […]

Erika Tarantal Anchor/Reporter WATCH VIDEO FALL RIVER, Mass. — The entire side of the buildings in Fall River has been used as painting canvases. Several new murals were recently put […]

KABOOM: BEYOND WALLS IS COOKING IN LYNN BY ANTHONY CAMMALLERI| July 10, 2022 (Owen O’Rourke) LYNN — Local non-profit Beyond Walls, which focuses on strengthening urban communities through parks and public areas, […]

Large-Scale Public Art Will Celebrate Rich Histories, Diversity & Vibrant Cultures in Holyoke, Fall River, Lowell & Lynn LYNN, MA—Beyond Walls, one of the leading proponents of civic engagement and […]

BY ALLYSHA DUNNIGAN| April 6, 2022 Lynn City Councilor Rick Starbard is hosting a community meeting to discuss renovations for Cook Street Park. (Spenser Hasak) LYNN — City Councilor Rick Starbard, the […]

PHOTO CREDIT: Artist Evoca1 descends from the roof of a building on Union Street in Lynn after working on his mural for “Truth be Told…” Photo by Spenser R. Hasak […]

Photo Credit: Beyond Walls image by Warren Jagger Photography BY ERIC BALDWIN | January 01, 2020 Architecture and design studio Payette designed an underpass lighting project for Lynn, Massachusetts. Lynn is one of […]

Photo Credit: Colombian muralist DAST UNO stands in front of his mural at the Lynn YMCA. DAST UNO completed the mural with the help of local artists and the outdoor […]

PHOTO CREDIT: Artist Kevin Ledo’s mural, “Facing the Future,” a 50-by-70 foot exterior wall installation, was made as as part of the Paint Outside the Lines APTart project in Beirut, […]

THE LAUNCH In May 2017, Boston-based landscape architecture and planning firm Brown, Richardson and Rowe began a year long process to update Lynn’s waterfront open space plan. The team organized […]

LYNN, Mass. — An 18-year-old’s dream come to life on the streets of Lynn inspired by similar “Black Lives Matter” murals he’s seen pop up across the country. The idea […]

By Allysha Dunnigan LYNN — Beyond Walls — the creative place-making nonprofit dedicated to activating public spaces to strengthen communities — teamed up with public art collective Harbor Voices to create […]

Check out the Video Here Beyond Walls has put up dozens of murals throughout downtown Lynn in an effort to reimagine the city’s image. (Shelby Lum/Globe Staff)

The MBTA commuter rail overpass frames the mural “The Stories of Lynn” by David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel, and Joshua Winer in Central Square.LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF LYNN — When you pull […]

A building on Washington Street in Lynn is graced with a mural by Dominican artist Evaristo Angurriae.LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF The On the Street series looks at the past, present, and […]

Lynn-based group Beyond Walls inspires young people to get involved in beautifying the city with meaningful murals. By NBC Channel 10 Boston WATCH VIDEO

We have been rocking and rolling, moving and grooving… and Lynn is looking INCREDIBLE with all this new art up. How are you liking the Truth Be Told fall installations […]

Oh, hello! While working late last night, the BW crew found this super friendly dude in Love Alley (Munroe Street). Any tips about who our new friend might belong to? […]

Although things are different this year, the process remains the same: preparation, get up high on a wall and get to WORK! All three of our artists are CRANKING and […]

Installation: October 16, 2020 – December 2020 The BU Arts Initiative and Boston University Libraries are pleased to welcome artist Sheila Pree Bright to Boston University in October of 2020, with an installation of […]

This weekend, we gathered a special group of local community members to begin the process of Sheila Pree Bright’s installation piece, now entitled REBIRTH. These entrancing photographs feature women posing […]

BY GAYLA CAWLEY| September 28, 2020 Artwork by artist Jah’Nyah Spencer, to be featured in Beyond Walls’ Truth be Told Initiative. LYNN — Beyond Walls has reimagined its annual street art […]

By Rachel Holt. September 7, 2020 at 6:30 am Filed Under: Lynn, New England Living LYNN (CBS) – Lynn is gaining global recognition for their massive wall murals and it’s all thanks […]

A drawing submitted by Jah’Nyah Menen Spencer for Beyond Walls’ Truth Be Told campaign in Lynn. JAHÕNYAH MENEN Beyond Walls is inviting city residents 5 to 21 years old to […]

BY GAYLA CAWLEY LYNN — Nightshade Noodle Bar is the first Lynn restaurant to benefit from a new outdoor dining experience created by Beyond Walls.

Lynn Vocational Technical Institute students Thomas Molea and Antonio Morales, both 16, constructed one of Beyond Walls’s aesthetically pleasing wash stations. BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF The nonprofit Beyond Walls is producing […]

PHOTO CREDIT: Lynn Vocational Technical Institute students Thomas Molea and Antonio Morales, both 16, constructed one of Beyond Walls’s aesthetically pleasing wash stations.BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF By Andy RosenUpdated July 29, […]

Students from Thurgood Marshall Middle School took a tour of the Beyond Walls murals in downtown Lynn on Friday. It was part of a new curriculum in Lynn Public Schools […]

Beyond Walls interns Janiah Jimenez and Ty Anderson, framed through a piece of PATIO, set up the other pieces in preparation for Thursday night’s “ROLOtón” en el PATIO. (Spenser R. […]

By: Cerys Wilson Image: Marka27 and his mural at 31 Exchange Street. As Al Wilson walked around Lynn’s Central Square recently, everyone wanted to shake his hand. “Tell me, what […]

OCTOBER 01, 2017 The Legislature’s override of Governor Baker’s veto of its arts budget on Thursday was a bittersweet victory for artists, advocates, and others who care about arts and […]

More than a dozen murals have been painted as part of Beyond Walls Updated: 7:41 PM EDT Aug 31, 2017 Erika Tarantal Anchor/Reporter LYNN, Mass. —A large scale art initiative […]

Anaridis Rodriguez and Nick Giovanni talk to Beyond Walls founder Al Wilson. August 19, 2017

As the Barr Foundation looks to expand its scope beyond Boston’s borders, an unusual project with the potential to transform downtown Lynn has caught the nonprofit’s attention. The foundation decided to give […]

  July 31, 2017 This July, muralists from Greater Boston and places around the world congregated in Lynn, on Massachusetts’ North Shore, to bring the industrial town’s brick walls to […]

NBC’s Glenn Marshall visits the Lynn mural festival to talk to artists and the community. Published at 5:58 PM EST on Jul 21, 2017

By Cristela Guerra GLOBE STAFF JULY 20, 2017 LYNN — The stories of Lynn’s people are being immortalized in its walls. For the past week, brick facades downtown have dripped with color as […]

July 17, 2017 3:09 PM By Carl Stevens LYNN (CBS) – Mural artists from around the globe are in Lynn this week transforming the face of the downtown area. There are […]

  6/28/17 Through partnerships with corporations, local businesses, government agencies, civic organizations and donors, Beyond Walls, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, is advancing an ambitious effort to galvanize the city of […]

By John Laidler GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MAY 11, 2017 A Beyond Walls initiative is helping make downtown Lynn a more inviting and pedestrian-friendly place. Through the civic crowd-funding platform Patronicity, MassDevelopment and […]

By Chris Stevens marblehead@wickedlocal.com Posted Apr 26, 2017 Marbleheader Al Wilson left his job and gave himself a year to try and make something happen. The result is an art installation, “Beyond Walls,” […]