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.