Murals

Murals and public art are the people’s art, and bring critical dialogue and healing to our community. This is the heart of our work.

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Murals In Progress at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center

For Free Mural Workshops. No Experience Necessary!

Please Come Visit Us Wednesdays 5pm to 7pm

Mariachi Portable Murals 2025

Siler Road Mural Led by Selina Fernadez

Alas de Aquas working on a mural at Siler Yard

Dia de Los Muertos 2025

Yearly Community Altar Murals

Southside Teen Center Mural Installation 2025

Through a collective process of teaching youth at Barrio Mural School, how to create their own small-scale murals.

Barrio Art School student becomes teacher becomes muralist.

Gabriela Corral became our first Barrio Art School student that graduated and came back to teach our students. Soon after she also created her first mural with the Barrio Mural School program! Each one Teach one! This is when we feel the most successful, when we seed the next generation of leaders from the community, for the community.

Barrio Universe City

The beginning of a 100 six foot by nine foot sized murals by Israel Haros to remind our community that there is abundance and ancestral knowledge waiting to come out of all of us.

Salvador Perez Pool

“Water is Life” Mural 2021. The most ambitious project to date. Alas de Agua trained artists for 6 months and then executed a mural over an 8 month period and all the obstacles of covd 19 and beyond. Main Artists included Jessica Ortiz, John Paul Granillo, Leana Aragon, Samantha Chavez, David Sloan, Israel Haros.

Panaderia Mural Project

A Volunteer mural project during 2020 and Covd 19 designed to engaged young and old in the mural arts tradition. Led by Jessica Ortiz and many magical hands that wrapped the building with all their creativity.

Art and Environment Mural Series (2020-2022):

In Summer 2020, Alas de Agua and partner Three Sisters Collective won a $125,000 grant from Philadelphia Mural Arts to take part in their prestigious Art and Environment Initiative and create a mural series across the city. This two-year project will culminate in the creation of murals incorporating Pueblo/Indigenous people, history and aesthetics, the place we live – O’gha Po’Oghe – and Tewa people, and the protection of our traditional homelands and sacred places. They will reflect the many ways in which humans’ survival of the climate crisis will hinge upon our relationships to each other, and our connections to land, historical migrations, and Indigenous practices that go beyond borders. There is an opportunity here for inclusion and healing, but it must come from the people themselves. Ultimately, the specific content of the murals will be driven by community conversations which center the voices of Pueblo people and revitalize ancestral knowledge. Because both of our collectives use art as a means and not as an end, this project also incorporates land-based practices and has resulted in the creation of Full Circle Farm in Agua Fria, where we are working together to reclaim ancestral knowledge and connect to the agrarian traditions of the area. Read the press release here.

History & Context

Alas de Agua Art Collective began as the New Mexico Mural Project, whose core belief was that murals and public art are the people’s art, and whose aim was to bring critical dialogue and healing to our community. We worked with local youth in promoting mural arts to tell diverse histories and herstories while actively educating youth and adults in creating beautiful, community-driven art practices. Since the Mural Project evolved and expanded into Alas de Agua Art Collective in 2017, murals have continued to anchor our work. Ultimately for us, these mural walls provide relentless hope, not only through the visionary landscape provided by the content on the wall but also from the engagement across neighborhoods and social-economic divides. Mural walls have been an intersectional space of healing for this collective and for our community.

We have stewarded the community in creating over a 20 murals in spaces across Santa Fe including

Siler Road Apartments
Genoveva Chavez Community Center
Salvador Perez Pool
Castro’s Restaurant
Southside Teen Center
Casa Familia
International Folk Art Museum
Santa Fe High School
Warehouse 21
The former youth detention center
Esperanza Shelter
Various streets across the city such as Agua Fria, Siler, 599, Declovina, and Baca Street.