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

Known Artists

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/

Black Panther escaping from prison carrying a pink rifle. Poster by Emory Douglas, Minister of Information, Lower East Side, NYC, 1970

Keith Haring mural, 2nd Ave. at 128th St., 1991. Harlem

Mural by the Mojado Brothers after the Mexican cartoonist Guadalupe Posada, Crocker St. corner 5th St., Skid Row, LA, 1996

Muddy Waters, 662 Broadway, Gary, 2003

Heildelberg Project, Tyree Guyton, Heildelberg Street by Mt. Elliott Ave., Detroit, 1991

Portrait by the Colombian artist Toxicomano, Alley west of Magnolia Ave, north of 12th St., LA, 2019

We are Family, by John Ahern and Rigoberto Torres, Kelly St. at East 162nd St., Bronx, 1987.

The box office is open, painting life, Former Palace Theater, Broadway at 8th Ave., Gary, 2003

Tyree Guyton polka dot,Detroit’s simplest and most ubiquitous art image is the dot that is painted on thousands of abandoned buildings. Guyton has become Detroit’s official certifier of ruins. Chene St. north of Garfield St., Detroit, 2012

Tyree dot, Chene Street at Garfield St., Detroit, 2015

Decorated House, Tyree Guyton, Heildelberg Project, Mt. Elliott by Elba, Detroit, 2010

Peace Chapel, Melinda, wearing white, and Danielle, S. Avalon Boulevard, at East 76th Pl., 2018. Break Every Chain mural of Pastor Fitts by Moses X. Ball

El Indio Amazonico, 7606 Pacific Bl. Huntington Park, CA, 1998 .tif

Portrait of the late Mr. Kim, a Korean born rice cake maker painted in 2014 by Hendrik Beikirch aka Ecb as part of Open Walls Baltimore II, North Ave. at N. Charles St., 2017

1007 West Lanvale St., Baltimore, 2015

Austin Pl. and E. 147th St., Bronx, 2011. .tif

Tyree Guyton, Heildelberg Project, Heildelberg Street, Detroit, 1998.

Heildelberg Project, Tyree Guyton, Heildelberg Street by Mt. Elliott Ave., Detroit, 1998

Rieger and Gretz Brewery, Oxford St. at Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, 2019. By Paint Love Across America.

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel, artist Gaia, 1013 Broadway, Gary, 2018

Tribute to street artist Nekst, by New Zealand artist Askew One, Monique's One Stop, Gratiot at Iroqouis, Detroit, 2014

City officials objected to the knife because it encouraged violence. Limbs lopped off, the man remains half obliterated, tribute to street artist Nekst, by New Zealand artist Askew One, Monique's One Stop, Gratiot at Iroqouis, Detroit, 2015

Kiss My Black Arts, San Pablo Ave. at 30th St., Oakland, 2019. Emory, artist

The Pioneers Mr. and Mrs Woodson, Rancho Market and Deli. Arab store, building owned by mr. woodson, the owner of the store was arab, the costumers are black and latino. Painter mexican, consulted with the owner., 500 Market Ave., North Richmond,

13th Ave. at East 12th St., Oakland, 2018. Asian and Latino people share this mural.

West 16th St. By St. Louis Ave., Chicago, 2014

Death as a winged skeleton wearing a mask by Gianni Lee, Woodbine St. at Broadway, Brooklyn, August 24, 2020.

"I died from COVID-19 Puto," "Inside Out," detail. A 2021 Global Art Project by JR,, 1,200 portraits of people who walked by Porth Authority, a portrait of the community as the NYC "reopened." West 40th St, Porth Authority, April 29, 2022.

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

Snake stencil, MOCAD, 4454 Woodward Ave. Detroit, 2011.

11171 S. Vermont Ave., LA, 1996, by artist Kent Twitchell

Mural detail showing the face of Christ vandalized, artist Kent Twitchell, 11171 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 1999

11171, S. Vermont Ave. LA, 1999, mural by artist Kent Twitchell