Street Mural Community Painting Party

Update: New location! The mural will be painted at Commercial Ave/Failing St. (in front of SEI). The street will be closed and prepped on October 3. We will have a community painting party on October 4 from 10 am - 2 pm. We will provide the painting supplies and refreshments. Make sure to wear paint clothes and to have fun!

Sign up HERE to help paint the mural!

The winner is…Thea GEnet

Mural Title: Boise Community Dance!

Behind the design: 

Thea: “I wanted to create something simple that resembled our beautiful community in a dance together, centering the native wildflower: western columbine. My vision is for people who see this mural to be inspired to continue to build and support community. Go alone, you'll go fast. Go together, we'll go far! I am an ecologist as well as an artist, and I feel a calling to remind people, regardless of our origin, that the land is at the center of our being. We can connect over our care and love for the land, and see that we support the many generations that are to come.

I hope at some point during the painting or completion of this mural, that participants and on-lookers may hold hands in a circle around this art, brought together by the activity and sentiment!”

Thea Genet

@tmgenetmedia

Submission deadline is closed. But fret not, we will do this again!

The Boise Neighborhood Association invited neighbors to submit design ideas for a future street mural at a future four-way residential intersection in our neighborhood. The submissions were due June 1, 2026. We hope to do more than one mural, so if you missed the deadline, you’ll have another chance when we open it up again!

Please use a form below to submit to boisena@gmail.com

PDF BNA Street Mural Contest Form

CAD BNA Street Mural Contest Form

All designs must adhere to city guidelines including:

• Designs may not include words, letters, numbers, logos, or symbols.

• No copyrighted material.

• Content designed to be appropriate for all ages.

• Designs may not resemble traffic markings such as crosswalks, stop bars etc.

Please submit a color drawing using the template above (digital or hand-drawn submissions are welcome) of your proposed design, along with a brief description of your concept and how it reflects our neighborhood, plus your name and contact information by June 1 to boisena@gmail.com.

The winning design will be selected in late spring. The exact intersection has not yet been chosen, but it will be a low-traffic residential location that meets City requirements.

We will schedule a community painting event sometime this summer to paint the mural at the chosen intersection.