East Austin
East Austin's murals carry the tension and the richness of a neighborhood in transformation. For decades this was Austin's historically Black and Latino East Side — segregated by a 1928 city plan and sustained by community ties that survived that violence. Today gentrification presses hard from all sides, and the murals on East 6th, 11th, and Cesar Chavez reflect both the community that built this place and the artists responding to what is being lost.
Featured Artists
All artists →Stephanie Rond
East Austin resident and muralist who grew up in the neighborhood and has spent a decade painting its character back onto walls that are being bought and renovated around her. "East Austin Is" is a text-and-image mural built from interviews with 60 long-term residents — their words about what the neighborhood means to them fill the wall alongside painted scenes of the community life they describe.
Federico Archuleta
Austin-based Chicano artist whose work draws on pre-Columbian iconography, Aztec cosmology, and the contemporary Chicano experience in Texas. "Mexica" on Cesar Chavez Street was painted for Mexican Independence Day — a soaring eagle and serpent composition rendered in the gold and terracotta of Aztec codices, reclaiming the street named for a labor organizer with the visual language of the civilization that preceded the border.
Jaime Orozco
East Austin native whose portrait murals document the neighborhood's cultural kingpins — the barbershop owners, the tortilleria families, the church deacons and domino-playing grandfathers who kept the community intact across generations of adversity. "Eastside Kings" is a hall-of-fame portrait wall on 11th Street, depicting seven men who shaped East Austin's identity and are largely unknown outside its borders.