Murals and Public Art
Muraling is very close to my heart. Since 2018, I have painted over 40 murals, including more than 25 public art commissions. I also create custom murals for homes, workspaces and commercial properties. I specialize in site-specific decorative murals that blend symbolic, representative and abstract imagery; and immersive, interactive public art experiences that leave people feeling less like art viewers and more like art participants.
Birch Street Plaza Portal
I was tapped by Roslindale Village Main Street and partners at the City of Boston to create a dynamic ground-level mural spanning the whole block. Birch Street Plaza is a lively and magical place – full of friendly people and pets, all manner of treats and services, dance meetups, farmers selling their colorful wares. Such a fantastical destination deserves more than a simple pathway to traverse it.
I designed and installed an eye-catching and interactive network of colors and shapes that would elevate the Birch Street experience – more like a portal to another dimension of what Rozzie has to offer. Wiggles like red carpets, charismatic color splotches to jump on – from the moment people step off the sidewalk, they are carried along by painted forms that help them jump, dance and play their way to their destination. Roslindale, MA. 2024.
Lexington Center Mural
In 2025 I was commissioned to create a new mural for the 10 pillars of the historic Lexington Depot building. To arrive at a final mural design I collaborated with several Town committees and stakeholder groups to inform and refine the mural’s composition. The finished artwork centers the historic and contemporary transit uses of the Minuteman Bikeway (formerly the Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, for which the Depot was a station); and through abstract, symbolic and representational imagery, depicts many points of pride from throughout the Town’s rich cultural history. Lexington, MA. 2025.
The Strong Place: a River and the People
In 2025, the City of Lowell began implementation of a major renovation of St. Louis Park in the Centralville neighborhood of Lowell to enhance its bioresiliency and to mitigate local climate hazards including urban heat island effect and persistent flooding. As part of this effort, I was commissioned by the City of Lowell to facilitate a youth-involved, environmental justice-themed temporary public artwork for the park. In collaboration with the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust and other local organizations, I led workshops throughout the Spring with elementary, middle and high school students to generate imagery and ideas for the artwork. I elevated a local Environmental Youth Task Force to serve as the project’s art directors, and they worked with me to develop an overarching theme and composition for the artwork, and to arrange and deploy the imagery ideas from younger students. The result of our collaboration is a wind-resistant banner with the Merrimack River serving as a timeline for key cultural, infrastructural, and ecological events through Lowell’s history. It is decorated with illustrative elements suggested and rendered by the student artists. Lowell, MA. 2025.
Troy Winter Farmers Market
I returned to downtown Troy, NY to add a mural to the winter home of the beloved Troy Farmers Market. This mural honors the ecosystems that enable the Collar City’s local foodways, depicting produce that shoppers can find at the market but also plants and fungi that mingle with dinner ingredients in the soil, UV rays that feed photosynthesis, seed-spreading birds and more. Troy, NY. 2025.
Window Art for Lowell Folk Festival
For three summers I have enjoyed taking part in Mosaic Lowell’s annual window mural series, creating window murals in the Canalway Cultural District ahead of the annual Lowell Folk Festival. Lowell, MA. 2023, 2024, 2025.
75 Canal
I worked with Parade Arts on this custom mural for a Manchester, NH residential development; the metal door was salvaged from the complex’s previous life as a mill building. My 12’x5’ painting references the silhouette of the Merrimack River, constellations visible from Manchester, wood grain and various roller textures, while leaving windows open to the door’s original texture. Manchester, NH. 2024.
Studio 124 @ Harvard University
I worked with the Office of the Vice Provost for Advancements in Learning (VPAL) to create a mural that would liven up their new A/V studio on Harvard campus.
This mural plays across four walls of this small office, featuring motifs and textures evocative of VPAL's work and surroundings: flowing lines inspired by sound waves and the Charles River; references to lecturers and professors; paint chips and crumpled paper to symbolize iteration and the team's creative process. Several sections of chalkboard cap off the mural so that VPAL staff and visitors can make their own marks on the wall and leave notes for one another. Cambridge, MA. 2022.
Troy Art Block
I was selected as a traveling artist for Troy's inaugural “Art Block” mural festival in 2023, which put up 27 temporary murals in Church Street alley in downtown Troy, and went on to win a USA Today Award for Best New Festival. I loved designing this color- and movement-forward composition to span this unusual collection of doors and windows. Troy, NY. 2023.
HarborCOV Ceiling Mural
A collaboration with friend and fellow muralist Alex Adamo: I designed a mural to enliven this shelter’s basement-turned-"zen den,” and we collaborated to bring vibrant color and dynamic shapes to the space's challenging drop ceiling. Chelsea, MA. 2023.
Garden Nursery Mural
A custom mural for a new baby nursery. The design is based off of a fantastical garden scene populated by overlarge versions of some of the family's favorite plants, flowers and a fir tree. The family dog also makes an important cameo. Private residence, MA. 2022.
Puzzle Me, Allston–Brighton!
I created an interactive new mural for the Harvard Ed Portal's Crossings Street Gallery. My 12'x7' design was a playful celebration of Allston–Brighton and an activity for viewers – the design was made up of 44 symbols, sites and landmarks having to do with Allston–Brighton, jumbled together to make a street-scale find-and-seek puzzle. The mural was paired with an online picture glossary and story map that provided background and further reading for each of the illustrations. Allston, MA. 2021.
New Hampshire Nature
I was commissioned by the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library to create a site-specific stairway mural leading from the building entrance to a children’s reading room.
I created three preliminary mural compositions, and from those options the library community voted for a mural theme of “New Hampshire Nature.” I had a blast highlighting three major Seacoast ecosystems (forest, marsh, ocean) and the plants and animals that call these habitats home. Hampton, NH. 2019.
