Day in Deep Ellum: Alfredo Pina
Alfredo Pina is a talented painter and muralist who resides in Deep Ellum and whose work can be found across the neighborhood! You might recognize his murals by the back entrance to High and Tight and most recently in Deep Ellum’s Blues Alley. As Alfredo spends plenty of time in the neighborhood, he has had […]
10 Murals Inside Deep Ellum Businesses Guide
For the last week of Dallas Arts Months and to cap off our month of mural features, we are bringing you a guide to 10 amazing murals inside Deep Ellum businesses! Deep Ellum’s murals might be best known for their placement along walls in the public right-of-way, but businesses across the district love to bring […]
10 New-ish Deep Ellum Murals Guide
Last week we brought you a guide to 10 of Deep Ellum’s most classic murals and now we hope you’ll keep exploring the neighborhood’s public art by diving into 10 new-ish murals! By new-ish, we mean the mural is less than 2 years old – the most recent one was actually wrapped up 2 weeks […]
10 Classic Deep Ellum Murals Guide
Deep Ellum’s first murals and wall paintings started going up in the late 1980s as live music venues began advertising their upcoming shows by painting an ever-changing calendar on their walls. As muraling evolved, businesses and community stakeholders embraced the artform as a staple of Deep Ellum. In 1992, the contemporaneously formed Deep Ellum Community […]
Behind the Brushstroke: Steve Hunter
Every person who visits Deep Ellum is constantly dazzled by the hundreds of beautiful murals that can be found around every corner. On any given day in the neighborhood, dozens upon dozens of Instagram posts can be seen with a Deep Ellum mural gracing the frame. The murals of Deep Ellum are certainly part of […]