Green Bay Mural Crawl

For a lot of people who don’t live in this city, when they hear our name, they probably tend to think football. If you asked them what else we might have, chances are that artists are low on that list, if they’re mentioned at all. However, we have a thriving artist community here – we have painters and sculptors and musicians and writers and on and on. We have large concert venues, as well as hole-in-the-wall spots for folks just starting out. We have the Weidner Center for Performing Arts. We have the Neville Public Museum and the incredible Art Garage. And we have an annual Mural & Busker festival. 🙂

This summer saw our third Mural & Busker festival. There were a few murals through the city prior to this, but in the last three years, an astounding thirty murals have been added. I’ve always been a fan of street art, and I’m excited to have so many great spots to check out in my own city.

You can check out the Downtown Green Bay website for a map and listing of all murals in the city – spread out across the Broadway District, Downtown District, and Olde Main Street District (where the bulk of previous murals were located prior to this series of festivals). If you click on the markers on the interactive map, you can learn more about that particular mural or sculpture, as well as the artist who created it. Many of the individual pages have images of the artwork.

Below are a few of the murals you can find in the Olde Main Street District. (There are links to the Downtown Green Bay website pages associated with each mural below the image.)

Below are a few of the murals you can find in the Broadway District. (There are links to the Downtown Green Bay website pages associated with each mural below the image.)

During the two-day festival, you can hang out and watch the artists at work, as well as enjoy a myriad of buskers all along the mural trail (last year’s trail spanned about .75 miles).

During this year’s festival, they also held a community mural where folks could participate in painting the string of concrete barriers lined along the sidewalk in front of the construction currently happening in the Broadway District. There are lots of little details to see along the barrier. (Not sure how long this will stick around.)