Mon 8/23-Sat 8/28
Sat 8/28 @ 10AM-11PM
If there’s a blank wall in Cleveland, there’ll probably be a mural on it soon! No sooner did Cleveland-born, L.A. based artist WRDSMTH (Philip Brody) sweep through town, spending a week painting 18 murals, than Cleveland Walls! arrives in midtown after a year’s delay due to the pandemic.
Cleveland Walls! is a project of an organization called POW! WOW! Worldwide, which sponsors “mural festivals” around the world. It’s done 17 so far with Cleveland Walls! being the first in the Midwest. Twenty local and national artists are fanning out all over Midtown and nearby neighborhoods, this week, setting down stakes at a Visitor Headquarters at 7113 Euclid Avenue where events are taking place all week. Find a map of mural locations here.
The event not only gives locals a chance to watch the art as its being created, it also features free family activities, including community artmaking, performances and artist talks by locals such as Distinguished Gentlemen of Spoken Word, Twelve Literary Arts, Shooting w/o Bullets, from Monday August 23 through Saturday August 28. There’s even a community film festival with the premiere of a documentary on the graffiti art in the Warner & Swasey Building.
It all culminates on Saturday August 28 @ 10AM-11PM with the CLE WALLS! Block Party. Most of it takes place at the Visitor Headquarters but there are other happenings around midtown including AsiaTown Plaza and the Children’s Museum.
For more information and a schedule, go to midtowncleveland.org/clevelandwalls.