About the Festival
our Mission
Green Murals for Good Festival is a community based mural festival that will revitalize NYC Chinatown and surrounding neighborhoods through art, community engagement events, and environmentally friendly solutions.
Revitalize underserved communities - one wall, one building, one block at a time with one love for New York City.
our Goal
Murals for Good will launch the world's first social and environmentally sustainable mural festival, using zero VOC, eco-friendly, decarbonizing paint. The festival will also support local small businesses and the next generation of entrepreneurs in Chinatown and surrounding neighborhoods.
Green Murals for Good Festival aims to strengthen Chinatown as an art and cultural destination for AAPI communities and New Yorkers. Through our commitment to public art as a form of community care, creating visibility and paid opportunities for artists who have historically found difficulty finding infrastructure that supports their work, we promote social and environmental justice, inspire empathy, and create positive change.
The Festival
This festival will showcase a series of murals created by talented artists from diverse backgrounds, each of which tells a unique story of hope, resilience, and empowerment.
- 30 Small-scale murals
- 3 Large-scale murals
- 1 AR light projection art installation
- Various community activities and events
The murals will be spread throughout the NYC Chinatown area. Priorities will be given to AAPI artists and artists with a history of advocating for marginalized communities. Artists will be provided with stipends & opportunity to showcase their work on prominent walls throughout NYC Chinatown with full production support..
Stay tuned for more detail.
what makes this festival unique?
We are proud to be the first mural festival in the world to exclusively use eco-friendly paint technology that not only beautifies our neighborhoods but also serves as an air purifier, absorbing CO2 emissions and pollutants. Our murals are free of VOCs, micro-plastics or any harmful materials, making them safe for the artists, environment and our community.
In addition to murals, our festival will also feature an augmented reality (AR) light projection art installation, which will add street lighting and act as a hub for information and community gatherings. We are excited to host various unveiling events and activities, creating new avenues for showing up for each other while showcasing the power of public art to promote healing, empathy, and positive change – an exciting step towards sustainability and keeping our city safe and healthy for our loved ones.
Our Community Collaborators
Our artistic process is deeply rooted in community engagement and impact. Our artists and community partners work hand in hand to create murals that amplify and promote social and environmental justice. Through our murals, we aim to make New York City more equitable and inclusive for all. Our community engagement efforts ensure that our murals reflect the values, stories, and histories of the neighborhoods in which they are located. We believe that by working collaboratively, we can create public art that truly represents and celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of our city. With every mural we create, we hope to inspire empathy, spark dialogue, and ultimately promote positive change.
We are a proud winner of NYS Chinatown Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) Award working in partnership with Chinatown BID and in collaboration with various other community organizations, including:
- NYS DRI
- Chinatown BID
- UA3
- China Buddhist Association
- FuZhou America
Contact us if you would like to participate in this historic event as a sponsor, volunteer, or participant. Come celebrate and revitalize the resilience, hope, art and culture of NYC Chinatown with us! We look forward to hearing from you.
Our Sponsors & Partners
Let's make history together!
Bringing you NYC's biggest and the world's first-ever social and environmentally sustainable Green Murals for Good Festival in the summer of 2024. Join us in leaving a lasting imprint on Chinatown, NYC and our planet! ❤️