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Creative Enterprise Zone
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The CEZ attracts and supports creative people and businesses to #MakeItHere! in the Creative Enterprise Zone of St. Paul, MN. https://www.creativeenterprisezone.org
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The Creative Enterprise Zone is deeply disturbed by the raid at Bro-Tex, a long-time business in our area. Immigrants are essential to our creative, entrepreneurial, & industrial fabric. We stand w our neighbors & remain committed to a community where all feel safe, respected & able to thrive.
Small poster reads, ICE abducted someone here, on a pole in front of a colorful mural on the side of Bro-Tex in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Photo by Geri Katz.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Nationally known muralist Anna Charney is painting now (well, when it's daylight) at the corner of Franklin and Cromwell/highway 280. Amazing stuff! Check out her doodle grid at the bottom while it lasts. This all since Monday! Plus new murals by Andrés Guzmán and Wundr on Prior.
3-story mural being painted on tan commercial building, showing large blue ball with dots, purples and blues in flowing shapes behind. Close up near the ground of random-looking words and simple shapes painted as lines on the wall, which make a "grid" for the artist to use to outline the mural painting. Large mural of a woman's body floating in multicolored psychedelic-looking space. Patterns in the colors reminiscent of Central American traditions. Painted cartoon mural on a gray warehouse with purple cat holding flowers, pink mice, and a red bird perched on a bird house.
September 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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A new mural is underway on Capp Road in Saint Paul just west of Bang Brewing! Artist is by Christina Vang. Chroma Zone events coming up Sept. 9 & 18–20 include Lego mosaic workshops, artist panel, outdoor block party & community meal, bike tour, bus tour. Details: www.chromazone.net/festival-eve...
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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New mural by Xena Goldman underway on Charles Ave just east of Hampden in Saint Paul! Very cool that you can see this mural and the earlier one by Wes Winship reflected in the big windows of the Wright Building.
Large mural of a neon green-skinned woman, seated with legs folded toward her chest. Pink long gloves, sunglasses, and white rain drops falling in the dark background. Large brick building with arched windows, two different murals reflected in the first floor windows.
August 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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And in process, also on Hampden Ave north of Territorial, Cadex Herrera is at work on this very large mural.
July 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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New murals completed in the Creative Enterprise Zone for this year's Chroma Zone Mural Festival! Pablo Kalaka on Hampden Ave, just north of Territorial, and a long retaining wall by Mike Davis at Raymond and Charles.
Mural of a brown-skinned adult carrying a young child, both wearing hats. Adult has a long flowing cape and a backpack full of symbolic toys, including a house, guitar, llama, book. Colors are blue in background, earth tones in foreground. Large green leaves and checkerboard patterns in lavender blue and gray on a long low wall. Mural of a long neon pink snake winding through green leaves, then going through the eye hole of a knight's helmet.
July 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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New wayfinding signs are up in three locations (so far) in the Creative Enterprise Zone! At the north side of the Green Line's Raymond Station stop, at Charles and Raymond (new mural by Mike Davis going up in the background!), and at Hampden Park Co-op, Raymond and Hampden Ave.
Large public map of South St Anthony Park and far west Midway, St Paul, adjacent to Carleton Lofts and MetroTransit bus stop, Raymond Green Line station just out of sight to the left. Large public map of South St Anthony Park and far west Midway, St Paul, with partially painted mural on a retaining wall along a parking lot in the background. Large public map of South St Anthony Park and far west Midway, St Paul, in a planter bed next to the parking lot of Hampden Park Co-op, an older blond-brick building.
July 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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New mural by Biafra Inc on the north wall of The Wycliff, 2327 Wycliff, in Saint Paul, part of this year's Chroma Zone mural festival. It's adjacent to Fadlabi's 2019 mural "The Air at Night."
Pop-art-style mural painting of a yellow-skinned woman with purple hair sitting with knees up, reading a book. Piles of books around her legs. Torn paper effect in the background on the wall with partial word WYCLIFF visible. Painting is about five stories tall (cars in parking lot below give scale). Second mural at right on lower building, orange background, African family loaded on a motorcycle in colorful clothing, headlight of motorcycle makes a white beam off to the right side of photo.
June 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Have you seen the new mural by Biafra Inc on the north wall of The Wycliff in South St. Anthony Park (Saint Paul), the Creative Enterprise Zone? It's big... you can't miss it.
June 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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More progress on Mariela Ajras's "Motherhood and Migration" triptych mural at The Wycliff in Saint Paul. Join us for an artist talk with Ajras on Monday evening, 7 pm, at NewStudio Gallery, 2303 Wycliff Street in Saint Paul. Details at www.chromazone.net/festival-eve...
Four-story mural of two figures on a large brick building, one fully painted of a woman holding a child shape made of gold streaks, the other partially painted of a child held by a woman shape, so far only a white silhouette.
May 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Mariela Ajras is underway with the first of her two new Chroma Zone murals at The Wycliff in the Creative Enterprise Zone! She's creating a triptych called Motherhood and Migration, including her 2019 mural (seen here to the left where she is currently painting). www.chromazone.net/mariela-ajras
5-story brown brick building with windows. 4-story mural on left side of a woman holding a child that is made of gold streaks slipping through her arms. On right side, a boom lift is in front of a 2-story vertical oval that is currently being painted, artwork obscured by the lift deck.
May 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Join us for a CEZ Spring Showcase Friday, May 30, 5–7pm at NewStudio Gallery, 2303 Wycliff St. Hear about our new study on the economics of the CEZ district, get details on the 2025 Chroma Zone muralists & events, and more. RSVP here: creativeenterprisezone.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Blue and yellow light rail train on Saint Paul's Green Line in front of one of the brick Carleton Artist Lofts buildings on University Avenue... in the Creative Enterprise Zone.
May 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM