Nashville, TN
Nashville's mural boom has paralleled the city's explosive growth, with the Gulch's converted industrial district and East Nashville's eclectic neighborhoods generating a density of photographed walls that have become part of the city's tourist identity. 12 South's residential character and Germantown's historic warehouse district add depth to a mural scene that now extends across nearly every neighborhood.
Featured Artists
All artists →Cassandra Ray
Ray has made Nashville's music heritage her artistic subject for twenty years, creating murals that honor both the commercially celebrated stars and the uncelebrated session musicians, songwriters, and engineers whose work is woven into the fabric of American popular music. Her Gulch work is the most visited mural in Nashville, and her portrait series has become an unofficial hall of fame for the city's creative working class.
Jerome Maxwell
Maxwell came to Nashville from Detroit and brought an urban mural sensibility that felt different from the city's country-music-adjacent visual culture. His Gallatin Avenue work engages with East Nashville's Black cultural history, particularly the neighborhood's role as a center of African-American life during and after segregation, creating murals that honor that legacy while engaging with the neighborhood's contemporary creative transformation.
Lily Park
Park is a graphic illustrator who has brought the visual sensibility of contemporary editorial illustration to Nashville's mural scene. Her 12 South work uses clean lines, a limited but vivid palette, and a compositional economy that makes her murals immediately legible and visually satisfying from distance and close up alike. She is Nashville's most commercially successful muralist, with a waiting list that extends two years.