Fresh Walls Project

BIG NEWS, Foundation, in partnership with and presented by , is excited to announce our first Artists for Oceans project to take place in Santa Cruz, California!

From June 6-13, our team of international and locals artists will gather in Santa Cruz for ten days to create a series of locally relevant public artworks to help spur ocean environmental activism while beautifying the town’s streetscape. Sea Walls Santa Cruz will be the most significant urban beautification project in Santa Cruz history.

The public artworks will serve as educational tools and conversation-starters, addressing marine environmental issues relevant and of importance to the local community. Our goal is to ignite ownership for the sustainability of natural resources and to build community around the common cause of protecting the region’s ocean and coast for future generations.

Special thanks to Sea Walls Santa Cruz partners The Nell Newman Foundation The Weiner Family Foundation.

Follow and for project updates and information. Together, we can help save our oceans!

Poster designed by supporting artist| Sea Walls Santa Cruz Project Director (USA).

The project is starting to take off! Thanks for all the support from our community!

We are excited to announce, after two years of planning we can officially start painting the Mission Street mural this spring.
Now we need your help fundraising!
Please share the link to our project's GoFundMe page!

Click here to support Clean Oceans Bay View Mural organized by Scott Greathouse As Santa Cruz based muralists, we at the Fresh Walls Project have had our minds set on painting certain walls over the years, walls that we feel are in such need of attention due to either their location, poor shape they're in, or both. Driving down Mission Street there's a wall that's been screa...

We are excited to announce, after two years of planning we can officially start painting the Mission Street mural this spring.
Now we need your help fundraising!
Please share our project's GoFundMe page!
gofundme.com/CleanOceansMural

Tomorrow night from 5pm to 10pm we will receive 20% of all food sales at Olitas Cantina & Grille. Come on down and bring some friends to learn more about our project.

I snapped this photo of Tay last weds at our school board meeting ...we were seeking approval to paint the sound wall that surrounds Bay View Elementary here in Santa Cruz.. a 600 foot long wall on Mission street... as some of you know, we’re proposing an ocean themed mural with a message within that raises awareness regarding the plastic debris epidemic plaguing our marine ecosystems... the Santa Cruz city school system owns the wall so we needed their nod... and with help from Lisa at and the brilliance/expertise of Beth Tobey they gave us the green light!! Yes! Fast forward to today: We had another meeting this evening with the Santa Cruz art commission to explain the project and get their approval as well... and again, with the assistance of the AWESOME Beth Tobey, we got it!!! ... Beth, you kick ass!!!! We’ve had this mural project in motion for about a year now and what a roller coaster!! But now it’s TRULY on!!! We are doin backflips!! We’ve got a ways to go regarding fundraising, our final design and gearing up to outline our refined plan to involve the students at Bay View... we are beside ourselves with joy to FINALLY make this dream a reality 🙌 beautification coupled with education is the name of the game. Cheers to a more sustainable future, cheers to awareness and cheers to keeping every Ocean and sea PLASTIC FREE!!! #🐠