STREET
ART & MURAL
FESTIVAL
2024

World Class Muralists
Live Art
October 3-5
Downtown Salina, KS

WELCOME

Welcome to the official website of the Boom! Salina Street Art & Mural Festival. We're busy gearing up for our third year of transforming downtown Salina into a vibrant outdoor live art gallery. This October, we're bringing in five world-class artists to add their unique touch to our growing mural tour. Watch as these works of art come to life right before your eyes! Join us for a weekend filled with art, culture, and community. Stay tuned for more details and get ready to experience the explosion of creativity that is Boom! Salina.

Don't miss our Boom! artist panel and Meet & Greet at the Salina Art Center on Friday, October 4th @ 6:30 PM

MURAL MAP

Boom 2024 Murals

Previous Murals

2024 ARTISTS

David Zinn
Featured Artist

David Zinn

David Zinn has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1987. For more than twenty years, he freelanced for a wide variety of commercial clients while simultaneously sneaking “pointless” art into the world at large. His professional commissions included theatrical posters, business logos, educational cartoons, landfill murals, environmental superheroes, corporate allegories and hand-painted dump trucks. Meanwhile, he indulged his personal creativity using bar coasters, restaurant placemats, cake icing, and snow. Now, thanks to the temptations of a box of sidewalk chalk on an unusually sunny day, Mr. Zinn is known all over the world for the art he creates under his feet. David’s temporary street drawings are composed entirely of chalk, charcoal and found objects, and are always improvised on location through a process known (to almost no one) as "ephemeral pareidolic anamorphosis." Most of his creatures appear on sidewalks in Michigan, but many have surfaced as far away as beaches in California, village squares in Sweden and street corners in Taiwan. He has achieved global notoriety and millions of followers through sharing of his images on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, CBS Mornings and BBC News, and his TEDx Talk (Avoiding Blank Canvases: Street Art and the Earless Mickey) has received more than 42,000 views on YouTube. David Zinn drawing 3D hole illusion on sidewalk His most enduring characters are Sluggo (a bright green monster with stalk eyes and irreverent habits) Philomena (a phlegmatic flying pig), and Nadine (a mouse of adventure), but the diversity of Mr. Zinn's menagerie is limited only by the size of the sidewalk and the spirit of the day.
Leon Keer
Featured Artist

Leon Keer

Leon Keer is a world leading artist in the anamorphic street art. He has executed commissions in Europe, The United States, Mexico, The United Arabic Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russia, New Zealand, Australia and several Asian countries. A message seems to be present in his work. Current issues are reviewed, such as environmental concerns and the livability of this world. Leon Keer is constantly aware of the playfulness and beauty versus the degradation around him, a contrast that he expresses and amplifies in his work and which he uses as a metaphor for life. His paintings reflect his thoughts, confronting the viewer with the diseased spirit of our times, visible decay counter-pointing a timeless longing for unspoiled beauty. During his career Leon Keer often presented his art by live-action-painting performances. His ability of performing as a street painter, lets him share the joy of painting with the public. The anamorphic paintings are temporary but the images are shared via social media all over the world. He says: ‘Every street art piece is unique and belongs to the street and its residents, the temporary fact about this artform strengthens its existence’.
SEN2
Featured Artist

SEN2

Sandro Figueroa Garcia, artistically known as Sen2 Figueroa was born in 1969. He grew up in Canteras, a neighborhood of Santurce, Puerto Rico. In the 1980's his fascination with graffiti, color and letter forms took a hold of Sen2's dreams. He chased his dreams to the streets of New York. Here he began to cultivate his love for urban art, creating graffiti murals and commercial work, but his vision was broader. It was at this point in his life that he met and joined the most famous graffiti crew ever assembled in the world to date: Tats Cru. With Tats Cru, Sen2 travelled throughout Europe and the rest of the globe. He found himself creating art for music videos, working with high profile artists (Jennifer Lopez, Nas, Missy Elliot). He was even commissioned by Robert DeNiro. Sen2 evolved from spray painting wild-style pieces to developing mixed media works on canvases. He moved from classical New York graffiti art to a combination of graphic lettering styles with 3-D elements, imagery of pop art, and abstract art techniques. Sen2 refers to iconic pop art as one of his art passions. One can recognize hints of Andy Warhol's or Roy Lichtenstein's inspiration in his works while applying his signature urban style from the streets to subtle reminders of his urbanesque childhood. His work creates an entertaining dialogue between color and motion. Graphic elements, bold use of colors, sharp lines and subtle blends that collide intensely amongst a variation of textures and gestural splashes of color pave way for Sen2's illustrious success with the canvas. Besides the fine art and pop culture references, all of Sen2's pieces have graffiti elements in them to reflect his artistic roots, as well as his sophisticated and constantly evolving style. Sen2 blurs the lines between graffiti and fine art. His beautiful chaos of modern and contemporary interpretations have created a signature style that collectors and art aficionados continue to admire. His love for contemporary, pop and urban art are evident in every piece. Since 2001, his artwork has been on display around the globe, exhibiting in numerous solo and group shows in America, Canada, and all throughout Europe. Sen2 has grown into one of hardest working contemporary artists in the world, with abstract paintings on display throughout America and Europe. Sen2 Studio is located in the Bronx, NY, where he currently resides.
Lidia Cao
Featured Artist

Lidia Cao

Born in a town in the interior of Galicia, Spain, from an early age she drew books and filled everything else with a pen. She became interested in drawing figures and faces, analyzing expressions and what to say with very little. She never attended private lessons, she is considered mainly self-taught. It was in 2016 when muralism stumbled on her way thanks to introductory workshops and from there it began to explore new worlds. She loves to draw volume through simple lines, playing with the different textures you have to explain on paper. Her palette is mostly monochrome, also using unsaturated and slightly shrill colors. She currently works as a freelance illustrator and mural artist.
Curtis Hylton
Featured Artist

Curtis Hylton

Curtis Hylton is an artist based in the UK, skilled in creating large-scale murals using spray paint. His trademark style of fusing flora and fauna can be seen across the UK, Europe and rest of the world. He aims to create artwork that highlights biodiversity and inspires cultural change in the way we engage with nature: "I was fortunate to spend my childhood before the digital era in an area with copious amounts of woodland and other ecosystems. Growing up in these surroundings and having family and friends around me with a shared love of this environment grounded my love of nature. This love, wonder and curiosity would become the inspiration that fuels my work today." Hylton celebrates the strong farming heritage in Herefordshire in his artwork and the site of the old cattle market originally located next to The Herdsman pub. For hundreds of years up to 2013, Hereford life revolved around its livestock market. Traditionally on market day, people would travel here from far and wide to buy and sell animals; farmers would drive their flocks through the city streets to market in celebration of a vibrant agricultural community. "I mainly focus on fauna and flora, staying native to the area where I'm painting.”
Boom! Salina is an annual mural festival in the heart of downtown Salina, KS. The larger vision is to bring in street artists and muralists from around the world to enhance the visual landscape of our city. The festival is funded through private and crowd sourced donors that share a creative hunger to be bold and inspiring. Boom! Salina is a backed by the Salina Kanvas Project.

ABOUT BOOM!

It was all a dream...

Boom! Salina is an annual mural festival in the heart of downtown Salina, KS. This invite only event brings in street artists and muralists from around the world to enhance the visual landscape of our city. The festival is funded through private and crowd sourced donors that share a creative hunger to enhance our community through  bold and inspiring public works of art. Backed by the Salina Kanvas Project, a wide range of community organizations.

PARTNERS & DONORS

Drs. Kate & Guy
Gross
Tom & Nancy
Pestinger
Norm & Kristy
Yenkey
Morrie & Sydney Soderberg
Mollie Carter