Public Art

  • Mariposa Mural, Mariposa, CA.

    Mariposa Mural: The story of town retold in the form of art

    If you take the Arch Rock entrance to Yosemite, you might see this mural in Mariposa, a town just outside the National Park. And this mural in Downtown Mariposa has so much to say about the town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California. Mariposa,...
  • Sophie holding the world together by El Mac

    Sophie holding the World

    Sophie Holding the World Together is a work of street art found in San Jose, California. This mural was done by Los Angeles based artist El Mac. This mural that went up in 2017 was commissioned by San Jose Museum of Art. About Sophie holding the world together, the...
  • Pepsi-old-advertisement

    Vintage-Style Pepsi Cola Advertisement

    Found in Las Vegas, NV -- a painting of an old Pepsi Cola advertisement on a wall on Las Vegas Strip. Vintage Advertisement >>...
  • A mural of San Francisco, Ghirardelli Square

    Simply San Francisco!

    When I was in Ghirardelli Square a few days ago, I came across a very attractive and minimalist-type of San Francisco wall art. Painted onto white walls, all it had was black outlines that screamed, ‘San Francisco.’ The subject of the mural were some icons that were undeniably San...
  • Reno's Midtown Murals

    The big Midtown Murals of the ‘biggest little city’ aka Reno

    Last year when I was in Reno,  I got to see so much art on the streets of this city in Nevada. And most of the works of art that I managed to click pictures of, have already found their way onto this blog. On one of our days...
  • A circus of colors from a mural marathon

    For a few years now, Circus Circus Reno has been organizing an art event giving mural artists an opportunity to put up their works on the walls of the resort. Circus Circus Mural Marathon is the name of the event. Circus Circus Mural Marathon The Mural Marathon put up...
  • Mission Walls on Mission Mall

    This week for  Monday Mural let me show you some mission murals from San Luis Obispo. San Luis Obispo is a city on California’s Central Coast and is home to one of the early Spanish missions of California – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. Mission Mall on Higuera Street...
  • Tina Liddie art

    Found in Saratoga

    In the fall, we had been to Saratoga, CA to see some fall colors at Hakone Gardens, a Japanese Garden in the city. Later as we drove through Saratoga Village, we found that there was so much colour all over the city. In the middle of all that fall...
  • Palace of Fine Arts mural, SF

    Found in San Francisco: Palace of fine arts mural

    If you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ve probably seen the Palace of Fine Arts in the city. If you haven’t visited the museum, you’ve probably seen pictures of a very Greek-and-Roman structure, looking almost like a temple. A couple of years back as we were driving through SF, I...
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