Artists: Craig Cundiff; Myron Curry; Perkio; Brady Black; Aaron Asis
(Craig Cundiff website, Craig Cundiff Instagram; Myron Curry website, Myron Curry Instagram; Perkio website, Perkio Instagram; Brady Black website, Brady Black Instagram; Aaron Asis website, Aaron Asis Instagram)
Location: 1st Ave between Bell & Battery
Mural Description 
(click to listen to the description)
The Barnes Mural is at the historic Barnes Building (2320 1st Avenue). It is 7,000 square feet. Five artists worked on it over the course of 2.5 weeks.
Each colored column tells the progressive story of Belltown’s history; the mural tells more than a century of history on one wall. It reminds us that every street has a history, that every neighborhood is built on layers of stories, and every generation leaves its mark.
Walking past the site from the sidewalk, observers are immediately struck by a dynamic intersection of styles, textures, and color palettes that mirror the diverse artistic backgrounds of its collaborative collective.
The mural utilizes a multi-layered composition characteristic of modern street art collaborations, blending crisp illustrative elements with expressionistic brushwork and rich, saturated color gradients. Passersby notice how individual artistic signatures seamlessly bleed into one another across the vertical expanse of the wall.
The artists leveraged their respective mastery in portraiture, graffiti lettering, and contemporary narrative design to communicate resilience, neighborhood identity, and the enduring vitality of Seattle’s BIPOC and local creative communities. The collaborative framework serves as an open dialogue between the street and the canvas, transforming everyday concrete into a shared public archive that honors the ongoing evolution of the Belltown neighborhood.
The creation of the Barnes Mural represents a core ethos of the Belltown Mural Festival: bridging individual artistic visions into a unified public platform to revitalize urban spaces. The project was conceptualized not merely as a beautification effort, but as a deliberate reclamation of public architecture by the city’s creative workforce.
Artist Statement (click to listen to the description)
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