Edin and Ben Goulart mural up a wall during the 2023 Eureka Street Art Festival | Photo: Andrew Goff

Eureka Street Art Festival release:

Are you ready for more murals in Eureka? We sure hope so…because the seventh annual Eureka Street Art Festival will be spreading color throughout the City July 29th - August 2nd.

We currently have murals being planned for these wall locations:

  • Eureka Theater, 612 F Street
  • Eureka Center for Spiritual Living, 239 Buhne Street
  • Discovery Shop, 2942 F Street
  • Alder Grove Charter School, 714 F Street
  • WIC Grocery Store, 1125 Summer Street
  • Opera Alley Wall, 212 F Street
  • Quality Body Works, 949 W. Del Norte
  • Chapala, 201 2nd Street
  • Eureka Natural Foods, 1450 Broadway Street
  • Limas Professional Pharmacy, 2097 Harrison Avenue
  • Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, 921 Waterfront Drive
  • Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F Street
  • Intersection by Food for People, 14th + Summer Streets

This year we will be installing larger than life ceramic banana slugs around town as well (crafted by local ceramic artists Shannon Sullivan and Jessica Swan). These “Slugs of Eureka” are being planned for these walls:

  • Inn at 2nd + C, 124 C Street
  • Mendenhall Studios, 214 C Street
  • The Bodega, 215 F Street
  • Skyhorse International Hostel, 216 3rd Street
  • Morris Graves Museum, 636 F Street
  • MOCA, 204 4th Street
  • Commercial Building, 622 H Street
  • CD Downtown Campus, 525 D Street
  • Synapsis, 1675 Union Street
  • Jefferson Center, 1000 B Street
  • Discovery Shop, 2942 F Street
  • Yarn, 2840 F Street
  • Humboldt Cider Co, 2901 Hubbard Lane

This year we are welcoming artists from all around California (and primarily from Humboldt County). Stay tuned: we will be announcing our artists in the next few weeks.

After seven awesome years of adding color to the city, the organizers have decided that this will be the last year of the Eureka Street Art Festival…at least for now. The Festival takes an immense amount of work and money to put on each year, and the three organizers are ready to move on to new projects. Through the Festival, over 100 new murals have been added to Eureka. Just like the murals, this Festival was never designed to last forever.

Want to help make this last year incredible? We are still seeking sponsors - please email us if you are interested: eurekastreetartfestival@gmail.com.

The Eureka Street Art Festival’s mission is to create intentional, accessible art that enlivens public spaces, stimulates community revitalization, and attracts visitors to Eureka. Our long term aim is to recreate this event annually and continuously introduce new public art in Eureka. Excess funds raised by the Festival will go towards the maintenance of existing public art throughout the city.

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