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🎉🎨 Celebrating 6 Years of United Rentals’ Incredible Support for Beyond Walls! 🙌✨

🎉🎨 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 […]

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Beyond Walls Weighing Options On Future Of Lynn Neon Art Installations

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 […]

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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 […]

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LYNN, SHOULD WE KEEP THE LIGHTS ON?

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 […]

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Here are the latest winners of Carlos Vega Fund awards to promote social justice

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 […]

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FINAL FRIDAYS: GALLERY NIGHT

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 […]

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Haverhill Seeks Coalition Partners to Support Series of Three to Five Large Murals

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 […]

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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 […]

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Beyond Walls, City of Holyoke looking for locations to create street murals

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 […]

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Outlook 2023: Holyoke ready to celebrate past, present and future

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 […]

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Artists

Keif Schleifer

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 […]

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Evoca1

Evoca1

ev·o·ca·tion ˌēvōˈkāSH(ə)n,evōˈkāSH(ə)n/ noun The act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind. _ Born in the Dominican Republic (1984), where he spent his childhood […]

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Kevin Ledo

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 […]

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Smug

Smug

Sam Bates aka SMUG or Smug One is an Australian born artist based in Glasgow, Scotland who is known for his photo-realistic murals. SMUG is working entirely freehand, using aerosol […]

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BORDALO II

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. […]

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BKFoxx

BKFoxx

BKFoxx is a public artist from New York (Long Island, technically). She paints photorealistic murals in only spray paint; no brushes, no projectors, no stencils. She usually starts with an […]

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Fonki

Fonki

FONKI is an artist from Montreal. He was born in France of Cambodian parents, who were refugees of the Khmer Rouge genocide, in the 70s. At 15 years old, FONKi […]

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Bikismo

Bikismo

Bikismo, also known as “La Joya del Caribe,” is a Puerto Rican street artist who has been painting since 1992. For many years, he was Puerto Rico’s most wanted graffiti […]

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Sophy Tuttle

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 […]

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David Zayas

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 […]

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Projects

AMPLIFIER

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 […]

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Cook St. Park

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 […]

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BeND

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 […]

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Trash Bags to the Streets

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 […]

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Classroom to the Streets

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 […]

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Interactive Map

Interactive Map

INTERACTIVE MAP View Interactive Google Map

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The Cabot

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 […]

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The Launch

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 […]

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Patio

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) […]

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Retrolit

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 […]

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Lesson Plans

The American Flag and Me with Sheila Pree Bright

The American Flag and Me with Sheila Pree Bright

Lynn, MA
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Ukiyo-e Prints and Female Representation with JUURI

Ukiyo-e Prints and Female Representation with JUURI

Lynn, MA
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Symbolism and the Art of David Zayas

Symbolism and the Art of David Zayas

Lowell, MA
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Creative Problem Solving and Urban Design

Creative Problem Solving and Urban Design

Lynn, MA

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 […]

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Discover the Dominican Republic and the Merengue with Angurria

Discover the Dominican Republic and the Merengue with Angurria

Lowell, MA

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 […]

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History of Street Art and Make Your Own Mural Activity

History of Street Art and Make Your Own Mural Activity

Lynn, MA

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 […]

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Don Rimx Mural

Don Rimx Mural

Lynn, MA

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, […]

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Medio Peso’s Mural

Medio Peso’s Mural

Lynn, MA
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Quiñonez Mural

Quiñonez Mural

Lynn, MA
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NS/CB “People of the First Light”

NS/CB “People of the First Light”

Lynn, MA
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