Buffalo, NY
Buffalo's mural scene is inseparable from the city's larger story of reinvention. The Allentown arts district — one of America's oldest bohemian neighborhoods — and the Elmwood Village's lively commercial strip carry work by local artists who have chosen to stay and build. Larkinville's revived industrial campus has added a new mural corridor to a city that has always painted with the conviction of a place that knows exactly what it's worth.
Featured Artists
All artists →Edreys Wajed
Buffalo's most prominent public artist — musician, muralist, and co-founder of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum's community engagement programs. Wajed's Allentown piece is a celebration of Buffalo's extraordinary tradition of neighborly mutual aid, documented in dozens of community conversations and distilled into a mural that has become the city's unofficial visual motto.
Kayla Salisbury
Elmwood Village resident and University at Buffalo MFA graduate whose building-scale botanical works have become a signature of the neighborhood's commercial corridor. Salisbury's Elmwood Avenue piece catalogs the plants that grow in the parkway trees, backyard gardens, and window boxes of the village — a hyper-local flora study at full-building scale.
Buffalo Urban Arts
Artist collective founded in 2015 by a group of Buffalo muralists committed to community-directed public art. Their Larkinville industrial piece was the first commission from the Larkin District redevelopment — a work that honors the building's century of manufacturing history while welcoming its future as a creative-economy hub.