Blogs

🎉🎨 Celebrating 6 Years of United Rentals’ Incredible Support for Beyond Walls! 🙌✨
We are thrilled to express our deepest gratitude to United Rentals for their unwavering support over the past six years. Their generous contribution of lifts, generators, and exceptional service […]

Beyond Walls Weighing Options On Future Of Lynn Neon Art Installations
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 […]
Large-scale mural to be installed in Chicopee
by: Ashley Shook Posted: May 16, 2023 / 12:12 PM EDT Updated: May 16, 2023 / 12:12 PM EDT CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A mural is being added to a building at an […]

LYNN, SHOULD WE KEEP THE LIGHTS ON?
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 […]

Here are the latest winners of Carlos Vega Fund awards to promote social justice
Published: Apr. 27, 2023, 7:08 a.m. The Carlos Vega Park in South Holyoke. (Dennis Hohenberger Photo)Dennis Hohenberger / Special to The Republican By Dennis Hohenberger | Special to The Republican HOLYOKE […]

FINAL FRIDAYS: GALLERY NIGHT
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 […]

Haverhill Seeks Coalition Partners to Support Series of Three to Five Large Murals
By WHAV News Staff | 12 hours ago Sample mural in Lynn by @angurria @willgom @silvialopezchavez @dovente (Photograph by @toastfilm) Haverhill is looking to build a coalition to choose three to five large […]
Beyond Walls Welcomes Arlington Highschool to Lynn
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 […]

Beyond Walls, City of Holyoke looking for locations to create street murals
by: Nick DeGray, Sy Becker Posted: Mar 21, 2023 / 12:25 PM EDT Updated: Mar 22, 2023 / 05:18 AM EDT HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Beyond Walls has once again partnered with the City […]

Outlook 2023: Holyoke ready to celebrate past, present and future
Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 8:02 a.m. Edwin David Sepulveda, from Puerto Rico, stands in front of a 50-foot x 85-foot wall mural he created on a building on High Street in […]
Artists

Keif Schleifer
Keif has made a significant impact on the world of art. She is a designer, sculptor and illustrator who has worked with other artists from around the world to create […]

Kevin Ledo
Kevin Ledo’s artistic practice crosses back and forth through the boundaries of mural, street art, fine art, and art installation. While there has been a consistent exploration in portraiture and […]

BORDALO II
Artur Bordalo (Lisboa, 1987) is today known as BORDALO II, the artistic name he chose as a tribute to his grandfather, promoting a continuity and reinvention of his artistic legacy. […]

Sophy Tuttle
My work transforms sterile scientific facts into a rich visual landscape that can be easily accessed intellectually and emotionally by a wide range of people. In particular, I am drawn […]

David Zayas
David ZAYAS is a fine artist and muralist. In 2012 he created UN ZAYAS POR DIA project, reaching countries such as Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, and the USA. Society is […]
Projects

AMPLIFIER
“Global Open Call” Campaign Art Circuit – Downtown Lynn About Amplifier: Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of […]

Cook St. Park
Beyond Walls was fortunate enough to be considered for a grant through KABOOM in 2020 to install a new playground in Lynn. Due to the pandemic, the grant award was […]

BeND
Considering Construction Careers, Underrepresented Boston Teens Build Inhabitable Sculpture A curvy public installation is the culminating project for nonprofit Digital Ready’s apprentices By Johanna Knapschaefer A group of Black and Latino […]

Trash Bags to the Streets
Thank you for helping in cleaning up downtown Lynn with us! Thanks to our partners for helping us make this event possible! Trash Bags to the Streets is […]

Classroom to the Streets
It’s more than youth engagement – it’s empowerment About this program Classroom to the Streets is a program that leverages the power of public art to deeply engage youth in […]


The Cabot
THE CABOT MURALS PROJECT As the gateway and an anchor of the Beverly Arts District, The historic Cabot Theater is well-positioned to feature an impactful public art installation that embodies […]

The Launch
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 […]

Patio
PATIO PATIO turns urban spaces into reimagined oases. Through funding from the Essex County Community Foundation Creative County Initiative, we partnered with local collaborators, Cojuelos Productions (community engagement consulting firm) […]

Retrolit
RETROLIT Retrolit was born out of a community-driven desire for making the walk around downtown more interesting and enjoyable. Merging art, history and technology, Beyond Walls restored and installed 12 […]
Lesson Plans

Symbolism and the Art of David Zayas

Creative Problem Solving and Urban Design
Lesson Plan For this lesson, students will learn about the history of graffiti and its evolution to street art. Students will learn about the different factors that go into creating […]

Discover the Dominican Republic and the Merengue with Angurria
Lesson Plan For this lesson, students will learn about the history of graffiti and its evolution to street art. Students will learn about the different factors that go into creating […]

History of Street Art and Make Your Own Mural Activity
Lesson Plan For this lesson, students will learn about the history of graffiti and its evolution to street art. Students will learn about the different factors that go into creating […]

Don Rimx Mural
Don Rimx – Secondary ELA Read Don Rimx’s biography and watch on the video on the Beyond Walls website:Don RIMX’s artwork focuses on making the connection between the city, nature, […]


