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More than 3,000 Seattleites voted for Seattle University alum Nathan Watkins‘ design for these murals for 72 pillars beneath I-5. “Sunlight Over First Hill” (📸: First Hill Improvement Association) Local illustrator and tattoo artist Kyler Martz drew up this pod of nautical chimeras by projecting his drawings onto a wall back in 2013. Seattle chef Renee Erickson has a collective of restaurants, cafés, and bars called Sea Creatures - and the mural outside her third spot, Fremont’s The Whale Wins, is perfectly on-theme. “Always on the move, these creatures must be proactive in their pursuit for progress,” the artists said.

This is a slice of “Terrestrial Melody,” a collaboration between Canadian muralist Ola Volo and Portland painter David Rice. More than 50 local, national, and international artists designed and painted 29 murals on the sides of businesses during the summers 20.

SoDo Track (📸: wiredforlego / Flickr)Įver hop on the light rail after a Mariners game and notice a bunch of murals whizzing by? You’re most likely passing the SoDo Track, a two-mile stretch of murals in our city’s industrial district. We’ll add it to our map and share the photo with a bit of history about it too. What’s a mural that you always find yourself admiring in the city? Take a photo of it, tell us why you love it and send it to. We’ve started compiling a map that shows where our city’s coolest, most artistic murals are located, and we’ve included a little bit of info about each below.

Graffiti n full#

(Updated 2021) Our city is full of amazing murals that most of us pass by every day.