Museum of the Street

Camilo José Vergara
Over Time
Origins, Africa
Religion
History & Identity
Portraits
Memorials
Motor Vehicles
Subways
Hair
Chain Link Fences
Rural Imagery
Food
Lettering & Signs
Neon Transformed
Dogs
Collections
Famous People
Socializing
Drugs, Guns, Violence
Known Artists
Municipal Art
Disappearing Art
Artists at Work

Museum of the Street

Camilo José Vergara/
Over Time/
Origins, Africa/
Religion/
History & Identity/
Portraits/
Memorials/
Motor Vehicles/
Subways/
Hair/
Chain Link Fences/
Rural Imagery/
Food/
Lettering & Signs/
Neon Transformed/
Dogs/
Collections/
Famous People/
Socializing/
Drugs, Guns, Violence/
Known Artists/
Municipal Art/
Disappearing Art/
Artists at Work/

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Museum of the Street

Religious visions, public memorials, political effigies, historical tableaux and commercial signage found in the Black and Latinx neighborhoods of America

Famous People

Museum of the Street

Camilo José Vergara/
Over Time/
Origins, Africa/
Religion/
History & Identity/
Portraits/
Memorials/
Motor Vehicles/
Subways/
Hair/
Chain Link Fences/
Rural Imagery/
Food/
Lettering & Signs/
Neon Transformed/
Dogs/
Collections/
Famous People/
Socializing/
Drugs, Guns, Violence/
Known Artists/
Municipal Art/
Disappearing Art/
Artists at Work/

Frida Kahlo, Louis Beer and Wine, Budlong at 92nd St., LA, 2010.

Teita's Market, Benito Juarez, 4813 MLK Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles, 2011.

Archbishop Oscar Romero, Pulgarcito Family Restaurant, West Pico Blvd. at S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, 2017

Oscar Romero, Salvadorean Bishop assasinated. Restaurant Paseo San Miguel, Salvadorian Cuisine, 1560 West Martin Luther King Blvd. at La Salle St., Los Angeles, 2019

A neighbor explained "That is Nina Simone, a Spanish guy did it, his friends own the house. First he painted her with and afro, then he painted her old." 1141 Albany Avenue, Chicago, 2015

Mural memorializing Mahalia Jackson. West Montana St. at Woodward Avenue, Highland Park. 2009

Billie Holliday and black genocide headlines, S. Central Ave., at 120th Street, 1996

13910 Mack Ave., Detroit, 2008. The woman portrayed is the deceased singer Aaliyah. Aaliyah attended the Performing Arts High School in Detroit. She had several hit records before dying in a plane crash in 2001. She was in two movies and was marrie

Portrait of cab driver John Weerd Smith. His arrest and abuse by the police in July 12 1967 led to the Newark Riots, Central Ward, Newark, 2015

Trayvon Martin, Livonia Ave. at Jerome, Brooklyn, 2015

Hi Life OG Marihuana Store, 1502 West Manchester Ave., Picture of Trayvon and the names of people shot by the police

Trayvon Martin, Money Saver's Meats, West Florence Ave. at 11th St., Los Angeles, 2013. "Your L. A. Black family are in support of you."

Memorial to Tupac Shakur, R. and R. Upholstery, Arlington Ave. at West Vernon Ave., 2018. "They bring tours here for people to take pictures. They asked for permission to paint it" said a worker at the store

Malice Green memorial portrait by the artist Bennie White, 1992. In a Free Press interview White said that It was God’s work that led him "to paint the mural on a rainy day, leaving a portrait that seemed to be shedding tears." 23rd Street at W. Wa

East Canfield Street at Philip Street, Detroit, 2008

Scudder Homes, Newark, 1987

Mike Tyson, Osborn St. by Belmont Ave., Brooklyn, 2016

Sojourner Truth depicted above a waterfall, 8320 E. Forest, Detroit, 2019

Frederick Douglass, West Crenshaw Blvd at West 50th St., LA, 2019

Marcus Garvey in full regalia,next to Mahalia Jackson, detail of Mural painted by Wardell McClain, sponsored by Sims Barbershop, Champlain Ave. at 47th St. Chicago, 2011.

Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther Thing Cultural Corridor, a community rejuvenation project, parking lot of Oil Changers, 340 West Grand, Oakland, 2019

Marcus Garvey, AAA Party Store by Bennie White, 1993. E. Warren Ave. at Lenox, Detroit, 2009

Coleman Young, Woodward Ave. at Quick Lane, Detroit, 2011

Obama, Frank Tires #1, 4270 7th Mile East, Detroit, 2009, mural by Ron.

1124 MLK Jr. Blvd., LA, 2014

MLK Jr., Malcolm X and Obama mural at Faith in Christ Ministries, 46th Street at S. Western Ave., LA, 2010

Smiling Obama, Gratiot Ave. by Fisher, Artwork by Bird, 465 9942, Detroit, 2010

Obama and Michelle dancing painted on "The Obama building," Grand River Ave. at Lahser St., Detroit, 2018

MLK Jr. mural by Rahmaan, Kut-Zone Barbershop, 407 Kedzie Ave., Chicago, 2012

Detail of mural by Donnie Carter, Hareer Food and liquors, 5452 S. Halsted St., Chicago, 2018

"Obama es el Presidente, Obama es para todos," Painting by Chuy Vasquez replacing a MLK jr. mural, Louis Market, 42nd Place at South Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 2013

MLK Jr. mural at Roosevelt Road at Sacramento Avenue, Chicago, 1990

Mural depicting Malcolm X, MLK Jr., Rosa Parks and other notable African Americans entitled "African Amalgamation of Ubiquity," by Curtis Lewis, on the side wall of Operation Get Down, a drug rehabilitation center, 9980 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, 200

Mural, detail, Grand River Ave. at Lahser St., Detroit, 2018

Malcolm X angry by Sintex, 8120 Grand River Ave., Detroit, 2018

4826 S. Central Ave., MLK and Malcolm, Los Angeles, 2018

MLK Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders, MLK Jr. Drive at Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, 2017

MLK Jr. mural at AAA Party Store, painted by Bennie White, 1993. Behind Dr. King are Jesus Christ, Harriet Tubman and the store founder Ivie Shelton. E. Warren Avenue at Lenox Street, Detroit, 2009

MLK jr. mural at The Original Bill Taco House, By Debbie Husband 219 E. MLK Blvd., 2006

MLK Jr. mural on Alley W. of S. Avalon Blvd. S. of Colden, LA, 1998

Mural of MLK Jr. and Cesar Chavez, by Moreno, in 2000, at South Central Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Los Angeles, 2000

MLK Jr. mural, Fish store, 47th St at Normandie Ave., 1997 LA

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla by Riki, , Alley, S. of E 25th St.Between S. San Pedro and Trinity, Los Angeles, 1997.

MLK Jr. mural at El Taco Mexicano, Vernon Avenue at Hooper Avenue, LA, 2013

MLK jr. mural at Illa Family Market, 50 Place and South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 2004

Mural at Las Palmas Discount Market, 5600 Broadway, L. A., 2010

MLK Jr. mural at Meat Market, 42nd Place at Vermont Ave., LA, 2002

Mural of MLK Jr. looking Tolteca, Compton Avenue at Vernon, South Central Los Angeles, 1998

Harold Washington, Sims Corner, Champlain Ave. and 47tth St., Chicago, 2008 .tif

MLK Jr. mural, Amigo Market, 150 East 23rd Street, Los Angeles, 1996

MLK Jr., Restaurant Paseo San Miguel, Salvadorian Cuisine, 1560 West Martin Luther King Blvd. at La Salle St., Los Angeles, 2016

Jumpstart Learning Center.
Mrs. Lockhard, the center’s director explained, “We love Obama here.” The mural was commissioned for $150 from a folk artist living in Oak Park, Michigan. West Chicago Ave. at Birwood St., Detroit, 2012

"La Reina Celia" Celia Cruz mural painted by De La Vega, Eaast 103rd St. and Lexington Ave., East Harlem,

MLK Jr. mural commissioned by the Tabernacle of Deliverance for All People and painted by Estos, Frederick Douglass at West 154th Street, Harlem, 2009

MLK Jr. mural “The Dream is Now,” at Dalzelle at 14th Streets, Detroit, February 2012. Two burned-out homes bought for $1,000 each, located less than a block from the former Michigan Central Station, are an unlikely site for the ambitiously named

Marcus Garvey, Rockaway Ave. and Fulton St., Brooklyn, 2013 .tif

Rosa Parks, Portrait at Lucky Fox Liquors, 18th Ave. at Irvine Turner Blvd., Newark, 2018. Citywide murals program, artists, Jimenez and Polanco.

An intense, short-lived mural depicting Rosa Parks, by Sintex (Brian Glass). 14th Street at Grand River Avenue, Detroit, 2015

Rosa Parks and the ghost bus, Grand River Blvd. at Montrose, Detroit, 2012

Rosa Parks, Quick Lane, Detroit, 2011

Family album, your celebrities, S. Main St. at 113th St., LA, 1996

Mural of MLK jr. at 7328 S. Halsted St., Chicago, 2006

Lady Diana, Westlake at 7th, Los Angeles, 1997, by Hector Ponce .tif

Civil Rights Mural, Lahser by Grand River, Old Redford, Detroit, 2008.

MLK Jr. Angela Davis, Malcolm X and a fourth person, 2021 mural by Ernest Shaw, East North Ave. April 6, 2022.

Say No to DrugsMural by Jose Meza Velazquez, detail, 1470 Fruitvale Ave. Oakland, 2005 .tif

I can;t breathe mural, MLK Jr. and and Malcolm X, Master Burger, 4423 S. Western Ave., L. A. 2023.

MLK Jr., mural, Washington Blvd. and Pulaski Rd., Chicago, Agust 11, 2022..,

Anthony Bourdain's portrait tagged, Front St. at Oxford St., Philadelphia, 2019. Gentrification is coming to this North Philadelphia neighborhood.

Villa Y Zapata, Union Ave at 12th Place, Los Angeles, 2019

Mural portraying the Serrano Sisters, lightweight champion boxers, born in Puerto Rico, now living in Bushwick. Hartman St. and Knickerbocker Ave. Brooklyn, December 27, 2022. Artist Albertus Joseph.

Mural honoring Aretha Franklin, by Syntex, Linwood Ave. at Euclid, Detroit, June 10, 2023.

"Respect," Memorial to Notorious BIG, 1139 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, January 1, 2022.

Jean Michel Basquiat painted by Owen Dippie and Al Diaz, Cooper St. at Broadway, Brooklyn, November 4, 2020,

Fading afrocentric mural by Kenny. Boys & Girls High School, Utica Ave. and Fulton St., Brooklyn, October 24, 2o22.

Trillion dollar Obama, 855 Tremont Ave. Bronx, May 9, 2023.

1122 Concord ST., Detroit, December 10, 2022.

Mural by Alex, on the wall of New and Used Batteries. Ronald Reagan is included because he was good to the farm workers. 8425 Broadway, Los Angeles, February 11, 2024.

MLK Jr. Cole St. and Foothill Ave., Oakland, July 16, 2023.

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