Buffalo’s garden-inspired murals

“Botanical Blueprint” detail. Individual images were made by visitors to Garden Walk Buffalo in July 2019.

Murals have been popping up all over Buffalo – like good weeds! Many are nature- or garden-inspired murals. Here are some of which I have photos. Other murals do have flowers or plants in them, but these feature them prominently.

You can stand in front of a mural of butterfly wings, boosting your pollinator cred on Elmwood near Hodge.

Another Westside mural was, in part, created by visitors to Garden Walk Buffalo. They were invited to placed found flowers and leaves from Garden Walk gardens on photo sensitive paper. Artist Hillary Waters Fayle then made a quilt-like pattern of those prints in a large-scale mural (Dewitt Street). The visitors got to keep their photo print – so dozens of Garden Walk visitors own pieces of this mural.

There’s even a koi pond mural you can walk on, by Mark Madden, on a hellstrip – between sidewalk and street (Summer Street at Elmwood Avenue).

The first floral mural below, by Cassandra Ott, is on Elmwood Avenue – and I can see a sliver of it from my kitchen window!

Sources to see more of Buffalo’s murals are linked below. There does not seem to be one single source that has all murals listed. Part of that is the speed at which the murals are being created. It’s hard to keep up!

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery Public Art Initiative
• Buffalo News Mural Interactive Map
• Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, Outdoor Public Art
• Visit Buffalo Niagara Public Art
• WGRZ TV Guide to local murals (This site has the exhaustive list!)

831 Elmwood Avenue, Cassandra Ott, commissioned by and commemorating the 25th anniversaries of Garden Walk Buffalo and the Elmwood Village Association.

Larkin Square, Casey Kelly

Summer Street at Elmwood, Chuck Tingley, in partnership with the Flutterby Festival.

1330 Niagara Street, Nicole Cherry, 1800s Bikes in Vines

465 Washington Street, Louise Jones, Wildflowers for Buffalo, 2018, commissioned by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Public Art Initiative.

Hertel Alley, Nicole Cherry

463 Elmwood Avenue, Nicole Cherry

1084 Elmwood Avenue (in progress on the Half & Half building), Chris Piontkowski, in partnership with the Flutterby Festival.

Hertel Alley, Chuck Tingley

South Park and Hamburg Streets, Nicole Cherry. Photo by Buffalo Rising.

Hellstrip mural at Summer Street and Elmwood Avenue, Mark Madden, 2019, in partnership with the Flutterby Festival.

244 Dewitt Street, Hillary Waters Fayle, Botanical Blueprint, 2019, commissioned by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Public Art Initiative.