About MuralStoke
(See the Mural, Share the Stoke)
MuralStoke was born from Steve Cheuk’s travel and passion for mural art. It took him to some fun and interesting neighborhoods (let’s be honest, murals make neighborhoods cool!). Along the way, he sometimes got to see artists paint live, which was thrilling. He thought these are great murals by awesome artists, beautifying their cities. Everyone should get to make these discoveries…and that’s how MuralStoke began. Our motto: See The Mural, Share the Stoke!
One of his challenges was the work required to find murals and their locations, then clustering them to make the logistics efficient (ie hit a great, walkable neighborhood with lots of murals instead of driving across town for individual murals). As a result, at MuralStoke we aim to make Mural Discovery Easy by being your 1 stop shop to find great mural art. We do this by sharing mural art and specifically their locations (so you can easily find and visit them too). Ever see an awesome mural and wonder, where is that? Yeah, we’re trying to avoid that exact thing. We curate (what we think are the) best murals so you won’t be buried by all the choices. Bottom line, we do the work, so you don’t have to. The next time you pull into a new city and want to go find murals, come to MuralStoke so we can make it easy for you.
How To: When you use Muralstoke, you can use our City Maps, which are organized by neighborhood to find where we’ve seen great murals or you can use our City Gallery pages, which are already organized by neighborhood, where you can pick the murals you want to see from a gallery. Click or tap on a mural and it’ll map the location of that mural. It’s that easy!
This is a passion project and while it is early, we eventually intend to connect fans with artists, share where new and live murals are being painted, have a podcast focused on featuring artists (why can’t mural art be as popular as a museum?!) and eventually bring an app to satiate your mural love. We know for Muralstoke to be the most useful, we need to have broad geographic coverage and thus, we aim to cover the vast majority of the top 50 metro markets in the US in the upcoming years (we’ll also sprinkle in some non-top 50 spots like Reno and Jackson, MI. Stay tuned as we keep adding new cities and let us know if we should come visit your favorite mural city.
We also want the help of all you PaintHeads (our loving name for mural fans; yes that includes artists too so if you paint something awesome, let us know!) in helping us crowdsource new mural discoveries. We’re doing this with a shared photos album (under Community/Mural Share; remember to turn your location sharing on so others can find it too) where we all can share awesome murals with other PaintHeads. Periodically, we’ll highlight the best discoveries and map them. These finds will also help all of us discover new murals and neighborhood clusters. Please also let us know when a mural we highlight has been removed/painted over (so others can avoid looking for something that’s no longer there; yes, we’ve all done it and it sucks). Thank you in advance!
We also recognize that we can’t be everywhere all the time so we plan to partner with (and spotlight) local artists, mural arts organizations, mural festivals, and bloggers as the true locals. We are also looking for PaintHeads that simply want to Share the Stoke by joining our local Eyes on the Walls teams.
Last but not least, want to say Hi, have a Suggestion or Share a Mural Discovery, send us an email or reach out to us on Instagram:
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See the Mural, Share the Stoke…MuralStoke