Tampa, FL
Tampa's mural scene draws power from its layered immigrant history. Ybor City — once the cigar capital of the world, built by Cuban, Spanish, and Italian workers — has murals on nearly every block, many of them honoring the labor organizers and mutual aid societies that defined the neighborhood. Seminole Heights' bungalow corridors and Hyde Park's historic avenues have both become serious mural destinations in the city's new chapter.
Featured Artists
All artists →David Levi
Tampa-based David Levi has been documenting Ybor City's Cuban and Latin heritage in murals since the early 2000s. "Cigar City" on 7th Avenue depicts a lectoress — the woman hired by cigar workers to read aloud novels and political tracts while they rolled — as a heroic central figure surrounded by the implements of the trade and portraits of union organizers whose work made Ybor City a center of early American labor activism.
Kofie
Los Angeles–based Augustine Kofie evolved from graffiti into a distinctive abstract vocabulary that fuses technical drafting, vintage analog equipment, and layered geometry. "Guava Tree" in Seminole Heights grows a botanical subject out of Kofie's mechanical forms — the guava's tropical exuberance rendered in the precision of blueprint drafting, a comment on how carefully engineered Seminole Heights' bungalow-era landscape actually was.
DAAS
Australian muralist Christopher Picton (DAAS) translates the loose, atmospheric quality of watercolor into large exterior walls — an achievement that requires masking, layering, and total control of spray and brush technique to produce the appearance of improvisation at scale. "Bay Passage" on Hyde Park Avenue captures Tampa Bay at the moment of a summer squall, the water surface dark beneath storm light, a pod of bottlenose dolphins visible just below the chop.