Street Art Scoop #20
Your weekly scoop of street art, opps, events, & media
Welcome to your weekly scoop of street art, opps, events, and media curated by the Beautify Earth team. Since 2012, Beautify Earth has produced, promoted, and advocated for art on the streets through local art programs and digital media. For the full Street Art Scoop experience read on our website.
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Clyde
Phoenix, AZ, US
Graffiti-artist Clyde began his journey into the arts in late 2012. His motives primarily influenced from his passion for architecture pushed him to create large works in the public eye. Clyde predominantly creates his works in his hometown Tempe, Arizona where he also graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor in the arts for design studies. His work is characterized by a combination of realism and skewed patterns creating perplexity in the image and wonder in the tactics.
Get connected at these events
FLARE: Ōtautahi Street Art Festival
February 27 - March 9, 2025
Christchurch, New Zealand
"FLARE is gearing up for an incredible lineup featuring seven headlining artists and a host of exciting new elements that will make this year unforgettable."
Women’s Day Artists Bazaar at Museum of Graffiti
March 8, 2025
Miami, FL, US
"Next: A Primer on Urban Painting" is an exploration of graffiti as a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Exploring the art form in nine countries including USA, Canada, France, Holland, Germany, England, Spain, Japan and Brazil. Interviewing painters, "writers", designers, and other participants within the subculture, the film celebrates the dynamism and creative brilliance of this extremely influential artistic movement.
Beaumont Mural Festival
March 8 - 9, 2025
Beaumont, TX, US
"The Mural Festival will be a weekend-long, live art extravaganza with muralists from across the United States and the world. The artists will be painting inside and outside the Beaumont Civic Center and the area to expand the public art scene."
Media finds to feed your mind
READ -- Q&A following the screening of FAME at Blind Walls Film Fest 2025
By Giulia Riva, BLocal -- "I’m talking about Angelo Milano, whose experience with the FAME Festival was at the heart of the documentary we watched just before the panel—a film that went on to win the festival’s top award"
READ -- Street artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez wins Frieze Impact Prize
By Benjamin Sutton, The Art Newspaper -- "The New York-based artist, who marries elements of graffiti and Mexico’s modernist murals, is rewarded with a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles"
READ -- The Visionary Behind Boston’s First Public Art Triennial
By Michael Blanding, Tufts Now -- "Founder Kate Gilbert hopes to showcase the vibrancy of the city’s neighborhoods"
READ -- How Street Art in Singapore Is Helping People With Dementia Get Around
By Elizabeth Hewitt, Reasons to be Cheerful -- "A growing movement seeks to make communities more physically accessible for the more than 55 million people worldwide living with dementia"
READ -- New Mural Memorializes the ‘Goldfish King’ of College Park
By Sala Levin, Maryland Today -- "Lighted, 3D Artwork Honors Curious Part of Local History"
WATCH -- Local artists use Darwin Street Art Festival to transform the city
By ABC News (Australia) -- "Local artists are using [street art] as a chance to celebrate Larrakia culture and life in the Top End of the Northern Territory"
READ -- Savannah seeks input on inaugural master plan for public art
By Benjamin Payne, Georgia Public Broadcasting -- "Savannahians can have their say through in-person meetings, virtual focus groups, and an online survey"
Upcoming opps
Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects Grant
apply by: March 10, 2025
compensation: $1,000 - $7,000
location: DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, USVI, PR, or WV
about: Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects grants fund projects that support the vitality of traditional arts and cultures in the mid-Atlantic region. Eligible project activities may include performances, public art collaborations, workshops/trainings, exhibitions, fieldwork/documentation, and creation of new traditional work.
BIG Vestibule Mural RFQ
apply by: March 14, 2025
compensation: $8,000
location: Bloomington, MN, US
about: The City of Bloomington invites experienced public artists/teams to submit qualifications for the design of a unique mural for the Bloomington Ice Garden (BIG). The mural design will be printed and installed on the wall by another vendor. The renovation of BIG presents an opportunity to enhance the space through the creation of a mural in the vestibule.
Cannonball Arts Exhibition
apply by: Feb 24, 2025
compensation: N/A
location: Seattle, WA, US
about: In preparation of our 2025 opening, we are excited to announce our first 20 calls for West Coast artists and curators. We do open calls differently. As an idea-based art center, we are looking for bold and unconventional ideas, and celebrate mediums and genres often passed by.
NYC Mural Artist RFQ
apply by: March 17, 2025
compensation: $75,000
location: New York, NY, US
about: All interested artists are eligible to submit past work examples in response to this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the opportunity to be selected to develop and install temporary murals.
Seneca Falls Mural
apply by: March 23, 2025
compensation: $12,000
location: Seneca Falls, NY, US
about: This mural will highlight Seneca Falls as the Birthplace of Women’s Rights, and it will depict the significant impact of this history on the community’s current identity & culture. The goal is to provide a creative installation that will resonate with Seneca Falls, NY.
Cities in Placemaking (for European cities)
apply by: March 31, 2025
compensation: N/A
location: European Cities
about: This programme is a peer-to-peer learning experience for European cities, designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Placemaking, its application in the context of urban governance, and its implications for long-term systemic change. The goal is to create a collaborative effort that benefits from a wide range of perspectives, through interactive, participatory, and experiential learning, with a practical focus on the importance of Placemaking as a city-level strategy.
Venice Blvd community walls
apply by: ongoing
compensation: n/a
location: Los Angeles, CA, US
about: Looking for a great wall for your art? Register your interest to paint BE's community walls on Venice Blvd.
Support local art programs
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Santa Monica Street Art: promoting opportunities for artists and the community to engage with and develop street art that reflects the history, spirit, and people of Santa Monica
Blue Earth Street Art: connecting communities to marine ecosystems through local mural and street art initiatives around the world
Beautify schools: creating murals in schools with local artists to promote arts education
BEverse: a digital hub facilitating the creation and exploration of local art, artists, walls, and resources
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