About Us
Street Wise Arts is a 501c3 nonprofit arts organization based in Boulder, CO. Our mission is to create mural projects, community events, and youth education programs that enhance the urban environment, amplify diversity, and engage people in activism and dialogue. Our core values are advocating for equity and representation for artists, building cross-sector collaborations, and contributing to a diverse cultural landscape.
Mural Festivals
The Street Wise Mural Festival explores the intersection of art and activism through the installation of murals and public art, encouraging conversations around social justice and community resilience. We spotlight womxn, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and emerging artists based in Colorado and beyond.
Community Partnerships
Interested in commissioning a mural project or community event? Street Wise connects artists with local communities, organizations, or businesses to create mural projects and events that amplify your community goals and/or social initiatives while empowering artists to create amazing and impactful murals.
Youth Programs
Street Wise Youth Programs aim to foster the next generation of artists, activists, and community leaders. Using a framework of artist mentorship to facilitate student work in public spaces, students explore awareness of social issues and how to use street art as a platform while building community, collaboration, and mutual respect.
Mural Tours
Come explore the street art of Boulder with Street Wise Arts! We offer guided walking, biking, and private tours led by a Street Wise docent. These tours tell the stories behind the artists, social themes, and local community and highlight other organizations and artists through collaborative performances and activations.
We Acknowledge that:
These murals and our events take place on traditional unceded territories of the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho people as well as 48 additional Nations that called Colorado home. We ask that you join us in acknowledging the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho and all of the 48 nations, their communities, their elders, present day as well as future generations. We must commit to giving reparations financially and in the form of land back if we have the means. We must organize and commit to ally-ship. We must listen to and learn from Indigenous people, who lived sustainably with the land for thousands of years before colonization.
Black Lives Matter
Street Wise Arts stands in solidarity with Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. We vehemently oppose the ongoing brutality and murder of Black Americans by law enforcement. As an organization, we are committed to the well-being and safety of our community, especially those that have historically been marginalized. It is our goal to empower our community through celebrating our diverse experiences. We vow to create an inclusive and accessible platform for artistic expression. And to amplify the voices of artists and activists through events and opportunities. We are committed to work to dismantle white supremacy in our organization, in our community and in our country.
Street Wise Arts programs and operating costs is partially supported by the Boulder Arts Commission, an agency of the Boulder City Council, the Boulder County Arts Alliance, The Denver Foundation, The Community Foundation of Boulder County and Colorado Creative Industries.
