Community Art center murals @ third & binney
Mural Masters
Mural Masters began in 2019, as a friendly competition; a collaborative effort to invite community to participate in Community Art Center’s Teen Public Art Program and give a window into what public art can do, say, and mean to a neighborhood. Young people from Community Art Center’s Teen Public Art Program are partnered with local artists, pitted in a head-to-head contest of live mural painting!
The event takes place every year at Community Art Center’s annual Port Arts Festival. 4 teams composed of 1 lead artist and 4-5 youth artists from the Art Center conceptualize, design, and execute their mural LIVE and on-site in under 8 hours. Neighbors, passers-by, and those in attendance at the Port Arts Festival have a chance to vote by SMS text on which team will win, and be awarded the coveted Mural Masters trophy!
All murals, once completed, find a home and are installed at local nonprofits, schools, and organizations. Previous murals can be seen at The Democracy Center (Cambridge); Maud Morgan Arts Center; Cambridge Community Center; Moses Youth Center; and in other locations throughout Cambridge and beyond.
Catching Flies, 2024
Artist: Andrew ‘ERA’ Quinones
ERA' is a Puerto-Rican multi-media artist born in 1997, representing Lowell, Massachusetts. Taking creative influence from his environment, 'ERA' blends urban art and letters with vivid colors to create vibrant pieces. 'ERA' began painting murals when he was 14, creating local art for the city of Lowell as part of a creative youth program. After graduating art school with a degree in Graphic Design, 'ERA' continued painting murals with any time he wasn't designing. Now a father, 'ERA' continues to make time for his creativity while ensuring he takes care of his daughter, who he hopes will grow to become his 'sidekick'. 'ERA' is obsessed with the challenge art provides, focusing less on creating a singular recognizable style and focusing more on creating new pieces that push him as an artist. The challenge itself can vary, from realism, to color blending, or scale/number of walls - 'ERA' takes each challenge head on.
Like the Spots of a Leopard, 2024
Artist: Phoebe Warner a/k/a CrazyPantsArt
PheebCPA is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist. They have been making large scale murals since 2014 while they were still in college at Montserrat College of Art. Since they graduated in 2015, they have been working mostly collaboratively with other Boston-based artists, curators, and teens at Artists For Humanity. Pheebz believes in cultivating authentic exchanges of culture and inspiring others through their creative practice. Much of their inspiration comes from people and nature. Pheebz is a member of Girly Pop, an art duo with Ananda Toulon. Girly Pop often works alongside Inspire Thu Art founded by members of the GN Crew- GoFive and Take1. Pheebz is also Co-Artistic Director for The People's HeART where they specialize in curating art by local artists in hospitals of the Greater Boston Area to better reflect the identities and diversity of our neighborhoods.
Mural Donation Submission Form
Each year, CAC donates the 4 murals created during the Port Arts Festival to organizations throughout Cambridge. The murals created in 2024, will be showcased in the Third & Binney lot until May 2025, at which point they will be donated. If your organization is interested in having a mural donated for your space, please fill out the form below to be considered. The CRA & CAC will be reaching out to selected organizations in April 2025.
Untitled, 2024
Artist: Curtis Williams a/k/a Curtistic
Curtis Williams is a visual artist from Orlando, FL currently living in Boston, MA. He uses multiple mediums to express the breadth of his imagination creating everything from vast cityscapes with giant robots and dinosaurs wandering around to abstract paintings with vibrant colors and calligraphic line work. Curtis is constantly pulling from endless inspiration creating themes of boundlessness throughout his work.
Serenity, 2024
Artist: Mattaya Fitts
Mattaya Fitts is a visual artist whose practice encompasses a multidisciplinary approach within a studio and street art discipline. Through the use of figurative elements and hints of abstraction, Mattaya Fitts depicts facets of the human condition, prompting viewers to interpret her work through a lens influenced by individual and collective cultural narratives, the Earth's ecology, and the eternal essence of divine femininity. Guided by vibrant color palettes, her fantastical artworks blur the boundaries between fiction and reality, allowing meanings to shift and giving rise to new worlds and enigmatic characters that constantly evolve.