HBG Sponsors 2022 Paint Memphis Mural Arts Festival

HBG Sponsors Paint Memphis Festival: HBG Design is excited to share the relaunch of our Kirk Bobo Creating Impact Grant & Volunteer Program, and announce our 2022 community partner, Paint Memphis!

We will be kicking off our volunteer activities at the 2022 Paint Memphis Festival, a fun and creative event designed to animate the Broad Avenue Arts District through the creation of public building mural art.

Read more about the community-friendly festival event below and come out to experience the day’s excitement.

A Painted Broad:
The 2022 Paint Memphis Festival on October 8 in the Broad Avenue Arts District will make mural art beautification a community experience.

Media Contact: Karen B. Golightly, Paint Memphis, 901-275-1981, karen@paintmemphis.org

Ever been curious about the vibrant building murals popping up all over Memphis, seemingly overnight? The 2022 Paint Memphis Festival will demystify the mural art process during their one-day community painting event in the Broad Avenue Arts District on Saturday, October 8, from noon to 6 p.m. It’s going to be an immersive, creative, and family-friendly experience, fully open to the public.  

Over 150 local and regional artists will converge to show off their talents and connect with the community in the making of the largest collaborative mural art event in Tennessee. The festival is also expecting special regional guest artists to include the Carpenter Art Garden, Houston High School, the Girl Scouts Heart of the South Council, and Christian Brothers University.

“Expanding on Broad Avenue’s clever redevelopment tagline, “A New Face for an Old Broad,” our festival artists are giving a colorful facelift to several of the buildings on Hollywood, Broad, Bingham, and Scott Streets,” says Karen B. Golightly, Executive Director and Founder of Paint Memphis. We want the public to be part of this artistic endeavor, to meet the artists and take part in enhancing the neighborhood, during a day of work (for us), art appreciation, learning, and entertainment.”

Over 50 vendors and food trucks, and a children’s hands-on makers space, will engage artists and art lovers of all ages. Several demonstrations and workshops are planned to help involve the community in the creative process, including:

  • A hands-on mural workshop by Zulu Artist
  • A skateboarding workshop by Society Memphis
  • Performances by Memphis Hoopers and the Kumar Indian Dance Troop
  • Live painting by local, national, and international artists.

New this year are corresponding gallery shows by over 100 of the participating festival artists, to be held at some of Broad Avenue’s finest businesses on Friday, October 7, 5-8 pm.

All mural art will be family and community friendly. Designed to spread positivity, Paint Memphis has set up beautification guidelines for the murals.

“No nudity, no profanity, no drug or gang imagery, nothing political, and most importantly, no zombies,” states Golightly. “We’ve gathered input from the neighbors through door-to-door and online surveys, and our artists are great at listening to public wishes to create art that will enrich our neighborhood spaces.”

Paint Memphis is a 501(C)3 organization that paints large collaborative murals involving local and national artists. Since 2015, Paint Memphis’ one-day paint festival has produced the best street and fine art in the South. The organization welcomes all types of artists of all skill levels and styles. Their diverse artist base donates time and talent each year to the mission to turn blight into art.

Learn more at PaintMemphis.org

And check out the artists at www.instagram.com/paint_memphis/

Read about HBG Design's previous Creating Impact Grant and Volunteer Program projects.