Downtown Hartford
Downtown Hartford's mural program has leveraged the city's corporate and insurance sector connections to fund large-scale commissions on the blank walls of office towers and the Colt Firearms complex. The contrast between the monumental scale of these commissions and the intimate scale of Parkville's community murals captures something essential about Hartford — a city of extreme contrasts where serious money and serious community coexist on the same street.
Featured Artists
All artists →Millo
"Colt Legacy" on the historic Colt Firearms factory complex depicts children playing among decommissioned industrial machinery — a meditation on what legacy means for a city defined by its manufacturing past, rendered in Millo's achromatic figurative style.
POSE
"Insurance City" — a wry title for Hartford's best-known nickname — animates the financial district's blank office tower with a panoramic abstract composition in gold and cobalt, the mark-making energy of Chicago freight graffiti applied to the scale of a corporate headquarters.
DALeast
"Connecticut River" traces the fall line where the river drops from the upland plateau to the coastal plain — the geological feature that made Hartford a natural industrial city — through DALeast's exploded-wire visual language, each mark a vector in the hydrological force field of a major New England river.