🎉 Celebrating 23 Years of MLK Mural Magic in 2025! 🎨
This year marks our 23rd anniversary, and we’re going all out! Throughout 2025, we’ll be dropping throwback stories, vintage videos, and spotlighting the amazing artists who’ve been part of our journey. Keep your eyes on this space—and all our platforms—as we celebrate the power of paint and purpose all year long.
Stay tuned, Artworld… it’s going to be a beautiful ride!
🌍 About Us
Moving the Lives of Kids Community Mural Project (MLK Mural) is a dynamic public arts organization focused on youth development, community empowerment, and education through the arts.
Founded in 2002 by internationally recognized muralist, author, designer, filmmaker, and Executive Artist Kyle Holbrook, MLK Mural was born from a bold idea: use the summer months and after school time(s) to engage youth in positive, creative community work through public art. What started as a local initiative has grown into a global movement.
To date, over 20,000 youth have been employed and hundreds of professional artists have joined Kyle in this mission—creating murals that tell stories, heal communities, and uplift voices.
📍 Where We’ve Been
From city walls in Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California to far corners of the world like Portugal, Uganda, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Brazil, and South Africa, MLK Mural has brought color, conversation, and connection to 49 states and 43 countries. Yep, we’ve been busy—and we’re just getting started.
🧠 Our Mission
MLK Mural’s mission is simple yet powerful:
To create high-quality, meaningful public art that brings together youth, families, artists, and communities of all races, genders, and backgrounds—through education, creativity, employment, activism, and shared storytelling.
🖌️ How We Do It
We collaborate with artists, schools, churches, foster homes, after-school programs, juvenile justice centers—you name it. Our murals don’t just decorate walls; they transform lives. So far, MLK Mural has created projects in over 115 U.S. cities, the Caribbean, and South America—seen by an estimated 150 million people every year.
As of 2025, more than 848,000 young people have helped bring these murals to life. Together, we’re building a more vibrant, inclusive, and expressive world—one wall at a time.
💡 Why It Matters
Our murals are bold, bright, and bigger than life—filled with stories of cultural, historical, and emotional depth. More than art, they are living history lessons. Youth learn about their communities, uncover hidden heroes, and turn their insights into powerful visual statements that can’t be ignored.
As Dr. Maya Angelou once told Kyle Holbrook,
“If you're going to say something—say it loud.”
That’s exactly what we help young people do—with brushes, color, and courage.
❤️ One World. Every Voice.
No matter your background, beliefs, or politics—you belong here. MLK Mural is truly an organization for everyone. We believe in unity through creativity, and we welcome all who share our dream of a more beautiful, more connected world.
Let’s keep moving lives—with murals.
