Three New Public Art Murals

Committee: Community Resources

Cost: $120,000

Location: The Port, Mid Cambridge, North Cambridge.

Short Description: Revitalize Cambridge with 3 new neighborhood murals. This public art project would reflect our cultural diversity, strength, and positive energy. Local artists working with high school students would produce the murals.

Long Description:
Art inspires people and promotes inclusion. This project will create three new neighborhood murals to celebrate and expand the cultural diversity, community strength, and positive energy of our city, and demonstrate our love of the arts. Artwork creates a sense of unity for our city by transforming space and celebrating the human experience. Art can build inclusion by bringing people together as neighbors and communities in inviting public spaces.

These three new murals will be located across Cambridge neighborhoods, including potential locations identified by the city:

• 333 Webster Avenue
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - planned for summer 2026
• North Cambridge: Existing Pemberton Street Wall, which is a block long, between Yerxa Road and Haskell Street - Complete!

Project Update:

The Pemberton Street Mural was completed as of October 2023! The completed mural can be viewed on Pemberton Street in North Cambridge, between Yerxa Road and Haskell Street. The Pemberton Street Mural was designed by Cambridge artist Whitney Van Praagh in collaboration with Alex Adamo and Kit Collins, with additional artistic contributions from many local residents and Cambridge youth. The mural was funded through the City of Cambridge Participatory Budgeting Process and supported by Cambridge Arts.

Check out the recently completed mural by Peter Gibson titled Arboresque at 333 Webster Avenue! The mural was painted during the summer of 2026 on the outer walls of City-owned buildings. Montreal-based artist Peter Gibson's concept centers on the theme of urban forestry. The eight-paneled mural depicts some of the tree species that are used in Cambridge and their changes over the four seasons of the year. 333 Webster will soon be home to the Urban Forestry Division, who will have the marvelous mural on its facade to communicate its work! This incredible mural is the second completed using funding from the cycle 9 PB project Three New Public Art Murals. Make sure to stop by the mural to admire this beautiful new addition to the City's public art collection!