Murals 2025
Northside Association for Community Development
West facing
622 N. Park Street
Kalamazoo Transit Building
East facing
526 N. Burdick Street
Stamped Robin
South facing
128 Portage Street
Farmers Alley
East facing
145 Farmers Alley
Haymarket Building
East facing
Haymarket Plaza
Main Street East
North facing
Haymarket Plaza
Travis Grabill “Solstace” 814 South Westnedge Avenue
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Northside Association for Community Development: 622 N. Park Street
Muralist: Ellen Vandermyde
This mural design is about the shared sense of stewardship and community care belonging to the people of Kalamazoo. Be it of plants and animals, history and historical architecture, youth and students, or our arts community, this feeling of responsibility to give back and take part shapes the cultural fabric and literal landscape of the city. This is the essence of Keep Singing.
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Kalamazoo Transit Building: 526 N. Burdick Street
Muralist: Maya James
We Got the Juice (In the Zoo) is a vibrant celebration of Kalamazoo’s natural beauty, creative energy, and collective spirit. This piece embodies the city through a frame of native wildlife—butterflies, moths, mammals, birds, and pollinators—intertwined with beloved local flora, symbolizing the region’s ecological richness.
More than a visual piece, it’s a testament to what happens when a community invests in itself. That “juice”—the drive to create, nurture, and sustain—flows through every corner of Kalamazoo. Here’s to keeping it alive!
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Stamped Robin: 128 Portage Street
Muralist: DBL VSN Murals, Heidi Weiss and Chafe Hensley
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(Looking For) A Soft Place To Land is a reflection on movement, connection, and the quiet cycles of regrowth found in community. It honors small moments—familiar rhythms of home, renewal, and return unfolding with ease. Amidst the drift of time and change, there are still places to land, to root, and to rise again.
Set at the intersection of nature and city life, the mural invites viewers to consider the seasonal rhythm of Kalamazoo’s landscape. It offers a moment of gentle flight within the urban bustle—both a resting place and a point of departure—where the natural and built environments move together, softening the edges between them.
In honoring this delicate balance, the mural reflects the spirit of Kalamazoo: a place that grows, adapts, and offers a soft place to land.
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Farmers Alley: 145 Farmers Alley
Muralist: Patrick Hershberger a.k.a. Bonus Saves
The artist takes the age-old truth of “it takes a village” to heart and finds a joy and resolve in its simplicity.
The older generation casts watching gazes on and over the future generation, out of hopefulness and protection. The young person looks on over an unknown future with the joy of learning and experiences for the first time, watching the cycle of life unfold before their eyes. Surrounded by nature, which may feel detached from our lives, not a part of our humanity – in reality, we are one in the same, ever integrated on our path forward in collective existence.
Kalamazoo neighborhoods are a vibrant tapestry of cultures, histories and perspectives that together knit a rich community spirit. This concept
focuses on the residents – those who have lived and will live and grow up within our shared spaces.
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Haymarket Building in the Haymarket Plaza: 161 E Michigan Avenue
Muralist: Amy O’Donnell-Lueth
This mural is a love letter to Kalamazoo and designed to uplift, spark pride, and offer a moment of optimism for every passerby. Inspired by the city’s rich history and architectural texture, the mural leans into the timeless aesthetic of ghost signs, vintage signwriting, and mid-century typography to create a design that feels both nostalgic and bold.
The phrase “Make it a Great Day, Kalamazoo” is more than a cheerful greeting, it’s an invitation. It’s a reminder that even in the smallest moments, we each have the opportunity to shape our experience and impact the community around us. The lettering style nods to the golden age of American sign painting, when craftsmanship and optimism lived hand-in-hand on brick walls and storefronts.
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Main Street East in the Haymarket Plaza: 251 E Michigan Avenue
Muralist: Dania Grevengoed
This mural is a contemporary ode to the green growth of the natural world, influenced in part by the introspective narrative on human ideals within nature, and a fascination with the concept of the sublime.
The design features a year-long Kalamazoo resident songbird, the Tufted Titmouse, and is surrounded by a circle of full-color native blooms. As the piece flows out it becomes a more monochromatic line drawing like a field sketch made huge. The colors of the mural subtly reference the blues, white, and yellows found in the Kalamazoo flag. Additionally, the piece is structured to allow potential community participation in the initial color-filling stages.
The plant species represented are all native to the Kalamazoo region and, notably, will be in bloom during the festival.
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