Plans for a civic center arena started with the larger plans to redevelop downtown around the Worcester Center and Galleria in 1965. The plan was to clear central downtown of its older manufacturing and industrial buildings and build modern office,…

Mechanics Hall has seen many uses from self-improvement lectures, mechanic fairs, and minstrel shows in the nineteenth century to basketball, roller staking, wrestling, and classical concerts in the twentieth century. Built by the Worcester Country…

Until Patch Whisky, Ghostbeard, and Matt Gondek applied their characteristic styles, 7 Jackson Street was a largely nondescript warehouse-like building. Mostly hidden behind a long-standing boarding house, it has seen many uses including car repair,…

Greg Mike’s mural at 15 Salem Street comes with layers of meaning. The Smiley face pays homage to Worcesterite Harvey Ball’s iconic design, while the tiger is a symbol of the passion and energy of people. The Tom Cat alludes to youth and, in Greg…

POW! WOW! 2018 Murals will be painted by artists Dragon76, Erik Nasinnyk, Jesse Smith, Mary Murph, StickMonger, Stikki Peaches, and Woes Martin. When the structure at Chandler Street Magnet School first opened as the Chandler St. Junior High School…

When Canadian street artists Earth Crusher and Five8 came to Worcester, they had no intention of fooling around. Together, they scored the largest canvas during the 2017 POW! WOW! – the 240 feet by 33 feet wall of the Fidelity Bank Ice Center.…

Mural will be painted by artist WRDSMTH.

It is only appropriate that the Worcester Arts Magnet School, an elementary school with special programming in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts as well as dance, welcomed nine POW! WOW! artists in 2017. The murals are spread across the…

Artist Sarah Brueck Williams will be creating a stained glass installation behind City Hall.

Mural will be painted by artist, Spear Torres.