Instagram: @cocoa_butter_supreme

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

Artist Jason Martin hails from Australia, where he developed a love of hip-hop and graffiti before moving to New York. In this piece he celebrates “Harlem World,” the phrase originating from a 1997 album by Mase.

Instagram: @original_bc1_nba

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

Love, peace and spray flowers is the signature theme of artist BC1 NBA.

Instagram: @hektad._official

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

Hektad was raised in the Bronx and started hitting it hard in the graffiti world at the age of 12 in 1981. His moniker merges the tag HEK and the acronym TAD for “They Always Destroy,” which was the name of his first teenage crew. In 1986, he graduated from the High School of Art and Design, an underfunded public school in which graffiti writers such as Tracy168, Fab Five Freddy, George Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, and Mare139 all graced the halls and tagged the walls. He returned to the street art world in 2014 and ever sense has spread his message of colorful hearts and “Love is Love.”

Instagram: @dreph

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

This piece by Dreph hails back to our first Grandscale Mural Project in 2019. It remains standing due to its meaning: The portrait is of Country, one of the men experiencing homelessness who lives outside the Metro-North station at 125th Street & Park Avenue. Country is very proud of this piece, despite the fact that a few of the wooden panels have been replaced over time.

Instagram: @markmusters1

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

The typographic puzzle design/conundrum is based on the ideas of interconnected balance and yin/yang. Head to artist Mark Muster’s Instagram page to watch the behind-the-scenes design process for making the mandala.

Instagram: @el_cekis

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

El Cekis is a New Yorker who hails from Chile. He paints wild and native flowers/plants to represent the original people who inhabited this and other lands. There is no a botanical goal in his work: Instead, he uses nature as a visual and formative element to raise issues of history and politics, and to bring energy from the use of color to the human spirit.

Instagram: @caryncast

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

The origin of this piece is a photograph of singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton that artist Caryn Cast had hung on her computer desktop for years. It’s a recreation of the album cover for Riperton’s “Adventures In Paradise,” in which she posed with a real lion. (“How badass!” says Caryn.)

Instagram: @blankaamezkua

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

At the center of this piece is the Gye Nyame, the adinkra symbol from Ghana that means “God is Supreme.” Blanka Amezkua experiments with traditional icons, with papel picado (cut tissue paper) from Mexico one of her favorite elements. Here, the Gye Nyame of West Africa is nestled inside a papel picado flag.

Instagram: @sfa_uno

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

This piece is the artist’s love letter to Harlem.

Instagram: @crashone

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

Born John Matos in 1961, Crash was raised in the Bronx. At the age of 13, he began following the older teens from his neighborhood to the train yards and began graffiti-bombing. Taking the name “Crash” after he accidentally crashed the computer at his school, his name began appearing on trains circulating throughout NYC. By 1980, he started to transition from train yards to galleries, curating the ground-breaking "Graffiti Art Success for America" at Fashion MODA, launching the graffiti movement that has remained active through today.

Instagram: @bigeyesworld

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

Artist Laura Alvarez is obsessed with calligraphy, and often includes her amulet eye. This piece was painted as the city thought it was starting to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the start of Pride Month, when everyone was thinking about rainbows. The quote is from Dr. Maya Angelou.

Instagram: @menaceresa

Location: 125th b/t Madison & Park

Menaceresa is the artist duo of Resa Piece and Eric Cheung. Resa handles the faces, and Eric, the lettering. Since the advent of COVID, they have traveled the country in a converted bus, creating murals in states across the nation. This piece is one of their first upon their return to NYC, and features a young woman who has grown up with her mother on the sidewalks of East 125th Street. The message for the future is “Hope.”