Walls of Beauty: Montreal’s Mural Festival

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Held in June 2014, the second edition of Mural Festival transformed Saint Lawrence Boulevard into a veritable open-air studio and museum as 20 international muralists created works of public art on the facades of buildings around Montreal’s most historic boulevard.

A celebration of the creativity and democracy of urban art, Mural Festival features installations, films, music, performance, block parties, and after-parties throughout the four-day festival – but the festival’s most important legacy are the wall-size murals that remain for viewers’ pleasure throughout the year.

Mural Festival © MRNY

A winner of Quebec’s Grand Prize of Tourism, the inaugural Mural Festival in 2013 attracted more than 800,000 visits to the free festival. This year’s festival highlights the work of artists from Australia, France, Italy, Chile, Poland, Puerto Rico, the US, and Canada.

Download the map and rediscover Montreal’s The Main amidst its artistic renaissance.

Mark Thompson

About Mark Thompson

A member of Authors Guild, Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), and New York Travel Writers (NYTW), Mark Thompson is an editor, journalist, and photographer whose work appears in various periodicals, including Travel Weekly, Metrosource, Huffington Post, Global Traveler, Out There, and OutTraveler. The author of the novels Wolfchild (2000) and My Hawaiian Penthouse (2007), Mark completed a Ph.D. in American Studies. He has been a Fellow and a resident at various artists' communities, including MacDowell, Yaddo, and Blue Mountain Center.

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