"Gateway Wings" is located on the New York Avenue Bridge, just before the Florida Avenue, NE intersection, and was commissioned as part of a bridge overhaul. Commissioned by the DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), these two 50-foot tall structures form an iconic gateway for the NoMa neighborhood.The sculpture features stylized aluminum leaves, creating a split-arch gateway over the New York Avenue bridge. At night, carefully aimed and orchestrated light beams, brought to life by locally-based lighting designer Alexander Cooper, envelop the Wings in a subtly shifting movement of color.
"Hounds," G.Pack 2025
G. Pack has developed a powerful art and cultural practice centered around a recurring theme: strong hound dogs, often misjudged as aggressive by the public. Through this imagery, he draws a parallel to how society frequently stereotypes young Black men. In contrast to their perception, the dogs in his work are depicted as loyal, gentle, and deeply misunderstood—mirroring the nuanced humanity often overlooked in these young men. Also a featured muralist in the first NoMa in Color Mural Festival, G. Pack's vibrant and thoughtful murals have resonated strongly with park and trail audiences, earning widespread appreciation.
"Home Rules!" Louis Antoine Gilbert 2025
The mural celebrates Washington DC buildings though vibrant colors that evoke a sense of joy and energy. The structures honor the city's brutalist architectural heritage, while also reflecting the contemporary growth of the NoMa neighborhood. At its core, the work expresses the joy of urban living, and the joy this Parisian artist has of belonging to the DC community.
"KIDS" Alex Serraton 2025
Created from a sketch, rather than the finished portraits, this intriguing mural features nine young children smiling and gazing out at the viewer. The first-time mural artist aimed to capture the youthful emotions and joy of being a kid and how as a community, we should cherish the future generations rather than tear them down.The Festival selection panel appreciated the complexity and uniqueness of the sketch even over the final portrait, and asked him to use the sketch as his final design.
"Intergalactic Hip-Hop Odyssey" Mike Pacheco 2024
Mike Pacheco artfully blends surrealism with elements of the natural world, crafting imaginative and visually captivating scenes. His work often features animated characters set within carefully composed landscapes, where fantasy and nature coexist. This distinctive fusion allows Mike to explore the interplay between imagination and the organic beauty of the environment in each of his creations. This mural for NoMa and Eckington was inspired by Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary, and depicts an astronaut with a gold rope necklace and a clock pendant, holding a boom box backpack. Floating in space around him are flowers and butterflies, representing the spirit of the culture and showing love.
"A Dance for Alethia" Nayila Moore 2025
This vibrant piece, by a first time muralist, is inspired by the story of Alethia Tanner, who the park is named for, and feelings that the artist imagined she felt emancipating herself. The imagery features women dancing against a backdrop of colorful stained glass, symbolizing movement, freedom, and joy. Through bold color and expressive form, the mural reflects Tanner’s legacy while offering inspiration to all who pass by.
"Ever Present" Tammy Barnes 2025
This mural honors the Nacotchtank (Anacostans) and Piscataway Peoples, original stewards of the Anacostia and Potomac rivers. At its center, a stylized Nacotchtank woman emerges from the riverbanks, her upward gaze embodying continuity, reverence, and renewal, surrounded by imagery that bridges past and present. Modern symbols—the American Shad, DC’s state fish, and the Wood Thrush, DC’s state bird—offer movement in the skies and waterways, while the Paw Paw blossom, a regional tree with custard-like fruit, anchors the mural to land. The figure’s fox fur pelt recalls the Nacotchtank as a “town of traders,” and the “three sisters” crops highlight their agriculture, with the Paw Paw leaves also referencing Roosevelt Island, the last place the Nacotchtank are recorded as having taken refuge.Truth and acknowledgment are vital to building respect across heritage and difference. This mural is created in that spirit—honoring their legacy, acknowledging the histories of displacement and violence, and remembering the resilience of all who came before us. We invite you to pause and reflect on the many legacies that connect us across time and community.
"Transfer Series DC" HOXXOH 2021
The artist, based in Miami, FL, used mundane items, such as a dustpan, to manipulate and transfer paint onto his canvas for this one in a mural series. They produce abstract designs that offer a foundation for the rest of the artwork. The process embraces the imperfections and glitches that arise from the transfer to create an organic and dynamic interplay between form and space. All of Hoxxoh's works seek to engage the senses and focus on rhythm and repetition.
"'Tis the Little Things that Soothe the Soul" Versatile Vice 2024
Versatile Vice aka. Eric B. Ricks is a celebrated and highly-skilled street artist and mentor whose murals can be found throughout D.C. and around the globe. In this work, his signature cube motif—along with other symbolic elements —represents a fully realized individual who has mastered their journey and reached their potential. The artist’s message is within the bright and uplifting design: the greater the challenges you face, the more exhilarating the game becomes. This mural invites viewers to embrace the joy of life and trust the path they are on.
"It Starts with a Dream of Housing for All" Liliane Blom 2024
In this mural, the artist tells a story about the hopes we carry for a better future—whether it’s justice, access to housing, or the right to vote. Its bright, colorful design draws inspiration from the iconic homes of the Eckington neighborhood and encourages positive and meaningful public dialogue around critical civic issues.
"Expand Again" Oluwatoyin Tella 2024
This mural draws inspiration from the enduring thread that connects pre-colonial African aesthetics to the contemporary Black culture the artist encounters in D.C. Rooted in her Yoruba ancestry of the Oyo Empire—an influence that has persisted and evolved despite the disruptions of the trans-Atlantic slave trade—the work embodies the energy, resilience, and determination required to preserve legacy across generations.
"Friends of NoMa" Camila Leao 2025
This mural by Brazilian artist, Camila Leao, is a love letter to NoMa’s dogs, inspired by one of her first jobs as a dog walker in the neighborhood. It celebrates the joy these furry friends bring to daily life, with their portraits meeting the vibrancy of Brazilian art and the spirit of friendship.
"Untitled" Red Swan Walls 2022
At the time of its installation, this was the largest mural that Red Swan Murals, a two-woman team based in Baltimore, had created to date. Their colorful, bold murals often evoke a tropical vibe and include realistically rendered, brightly- painted birds and plants.and vibrant abstract patterns.
"Eckington Encounter" Brian Michael Dunn 2025
This mural is a meeting of the senses inspired by a scene from the NoMa farmers market . A resident stops among the lush greenery to take in the scent of a nearby flower. Forms are repeated throughout the scene, drawing further connections between the subject and her object of attention. Plant life of the district is abstracted into repeating geometric forms, reflecting the rhythms and patterns of city life.
"Shaunte and Biko," Martin Swift
This beloved and enduring neighborhood mural, created by figurative painter and illustrator Martin Swift, was created over two years (2017 and 2018), and depicts Eckington artist Shaunte Gates and his son, Biko. It was the artist's first mural. Both Swift and Gates have shown their work internationally. Although the murals painted along the WMATA wall are typically changed every two years as part of the annual NoMa mural festival, this mural has, by community vote, stayed in place since it was created.
"NoMa on Wheels" Maeberry Arts 2025
Lecsi Pillar views Washington, DC—and the NoMa/Eckington area in particular—as a hub of energy, where people are constantly on the move. While many travel by train, she’s equally inspired by those navigating the city on bikes, skates, skateboards, and, more recently, scooters. Her design celebrates these car-free alternatives, reflecting a hopeful vision for a greener DC. She chose to feature a diverse group of women to represent her own perspective and to honor a growing cultural shift: one in which women confidently move through public spaces on their own. The work celebrates both independence and empowerment.
"Cool Cats in DC" Josette Matoto 2025
Fostering joy and pride in this city feels more important than ever.Josette, a graphic artist, was excited to find a chance to express her love for this city’s art, sports, music, and amazing green spaces. And for cats, of course.
"Fugue" JAHRU 2024
Annapolis-based artist JAHRU (Jeff Huntington) is a Filipino-American painter and the Executive Director and co-founder of Future History Now, a nonprofit that collaborates with underserved youth around the world to create transformative murals. Blending traditional mural techniques with a contemporary vision, he crafts striking wall works that both surprise and uplift. This piece is one of his striking double-offset glitch paintings, featuring two overlapping portraits divided by a geometric pattern—a “barcode” of color -that reflects the digital lens through which we increasingly view the world.
"Allegory of the Cave" Ashley Jaye Williams 2024
In this mural, the artist portrays a young girl immersed in the safe, imaginative world of reading and learning—a peaceful bubble of focus and possibility. Surrounding this calm center is a whirlwind of city life in Northeast D.C., depicted through vibrant imagery chosen by the artist: the chaos of constant construction, the blur of passing cyclists and pedestrians, and even a nod to local flavor with a slice of pizza—an homage to a favorite NoMa and Eckington pastime. While the Metropolitan Branch Trail (MBT) is a thoroughfare for daily commuters and urban movement, the mural reminds us that it also offers moments of reflection, escape, and quiet within the city’s relentless pace.
"Concert" Marc Pekala 2024
In this DC and Eckington-focused work, graphic artist Marc Pekala uses iconic 1980's- 90's Go-Go Performance Poster prints- published by the Baltimore-based Globe Printing Corporation- as inspiration. Images of the posters are cut up into playful pieces that are then re-arranged as a collage of colorful design, perfect for translating into a wall mural.
"The Embrace" Just RO 2025
This mural, a combination of spray paint and brushwork, is of a local woman and her child. The artist sees this first large mural as his gift to DC, and the woman as all the residents of the local community nurturing the baby neighborhood, NoMa.
"Locomotive" Anthony Dihle 2025
Why a locomotive? The artist can hear the NoMa trains from his studio; the nearby tracks are historic and date to the 1870s. He infused some historic DC elements with the contemporary to represent the neverending change of our city. Other images inside the locomotive include a bicycle (he often bikes the MBT), and some NE DC “wildlife” hidden throughout. Also included is a sample of DC’s street grid with a couple circles (taken from the artist’s home neighborhood in NW), the traffic circles with streets radiating outward hinting at the wheels and spokes of a bicycle or train wheel.
"Color of Love" Autumn Spears 2025
The contrasting yet complementary warm and cool color palette reflects the dual narratives of legacy and transience. The patterned, quilt-like background represents the city’s diverse communities—each distinct yet interconnected—creating a unified tapestry. Over this rests a bold, simple outline of “DC,” anchoring the composition. Culturally, braids symbolize strength, identity, and continuity. Visually, they also echo the city’s energy and movement—resembling track marks or paths in motion. This dual reference speaks both to cultural tradition and to the literal trails, roads, and rhythms of the city, including a nod to the Metropolitan Branch Trail.
"Self-Love" MJ On the Wall 2025
This mural illustrates for the artist the moments where all the voices in your head finally come together to heal you. Despite the piece having a multitude of characters they all represent one person who finally found a way to unify themselves to feel whole. With the color gradient layout of increased brightness from both right to left and left to right, this is a fun piece for bikers/runners to observe.
"Community" Anna Siniuk 2024
This mural offers a vivid celebration of the artist’s diverse and dynamic community, portraying people from all walks of life coming together in unity and joy. Through bold colors, striking patterns, and graphic figures, the work captures the essence of D.C.’s spirit while showcasing the artist’s distinctive style.
Untitled, Marcella Verchio 2024
This mural is part of a series that the mural artist calls "Galaxy Flowers" - Marcella's art explores the complexities of the human condition, philosophy, and contemporary life. Employing techniques that inherently lack control, she embraces the uncertainty.
"In Harmony" Brianna Pippens 2024
The artist painted this mural to cultivate a sense of community, belonging and connection in the Eckington/NoMa neighborhoods. For her first outdoor mural, she chose dynamic colors and depicted potraits of women in her blossoming graphic style.
"Chuquillanqui" Salvador Rubio Rivera 2024
The artist was inspired to paint this mural in honor of his Latino community in DC. The woman is a Peruvian friend, and he painted the floral background as an homage to traditional Mexican embroidery patterns.
"The Breeze Back Home" Mr. Zimbro 2024
This mural draws inspiration from the artist’s cherished childhood memory of visiting the metro station with his father, while growing up just ten blocks from what is now Alethia Tanner Park. He recalls being immersed in the vibrant colors, the constant hum of activity, and the graffiti that filled the city’s landscape. Returning years later to paint this, his second, mural in the same park, he reflected with a smile, “This is as good as it gets.”
"Sun Goddess" Cr8tion Rebel 2024
This mural portrays a Black female phoenix rising from the ashes toward the horizon, a powerful symbol of the neighborhood’s resilience and its ability to adapt and thrive through change. The rich, sunset-inspired palette—woven with lunar imagery and geometric patterns—evokes the interconnectedness of nature and urban life in NoMa, reflecting both its strength and its enduring spirit.
"Stay Pawsitive" Luther Wright 2024
In 2024, as part of the annual NoMa Mural Festival, the NoMa BID invited the artist to create a vibrant new mural for the beloved Alethia Tanner Park dog park—frequently recognized by the public as one of D.C.’s favorite spots for pups and their people. Commissioned to complement the individual artist works being painted during the festival, this mural was designed as a community painting project during the 2024 NoMa in Color event. Over 100 volunteers helped bring the piece to life, carefully filling in color within the artist’s pre-drawn guidelines. Known for his signature curves, bold color fields, and joyful depictions of animals, Luther transformed the park’s backdrop into a playful, uplifting celebration of the community’s canine companions.
This mural was created by the artist in partnership with the Heising-Simons Foundation and CulturalDC. The mural design was Inspired by the work of a Duke physicist studying quarks, and depicts women as subatomic particles, specifically quarks, which are components of protons. The artwork is part of a larger public art series called "Findings" that were commissioned by the Foundation. Designed by Amanda as a tribute to women in STEM, the bold, vibrant composition features two women surrounded by a burst of fragmented forms—symbolizing the fundamental building blocks of protons and neutrons that give rise to life itself.
"From This Point Forward" Brandon Slewion 2025
Painted on the exterior wall of the Stable Arts building, this mural, whose artist is also a teacher. depicts students who, like the artist once did, struggled to connect the dots and define their educational paths. Through this work, the artist encourages young people everywhere to look inward and explore their surroundings in pursuit of deeper knowledge and a clearer sense of purpose. The mural features symbolic figures—the seeker, the builder, and the storyteller—representing the journey of self-discovery and growth.
"And Yet, We Bloom" C.S. Corbin 2025
The inspiration behind the artist's design was an appreciation for DC architecture (with a specific nod to the Eckington community), and the breathtaking blooms that exist around this city.
"Joy Over Chaos" Kia Kelliebrew 2025
This mural celebrates the freedom of Black women to live authentically—beyond the constraints of societal expectations and imposed identities. A blackbird, its wings adorned with heart-shaped eyes, symbolizes inner vision, self-love, and the power to manifest one’s own destiny. The bird serves as a metaphorical resource, holding everything she needs to pursue her dreams. Echoing the spirit of “spread your wings and fly,” the artist wanted to reflect a journey of self-empowerment, where validation is self-given and the sky is no longer the limit, but the beginning.
