During the last weekend of September, 2024, Carson City held its second annual Murals & Music Festival. The first one was held in 2023, and they said at the time that they were hoping to make it an annual thing. And they managed to do the second one this year, so this does have the makings of a continuing thing. As the name implies, there are concerts held around town this weekend to comprise the music part. But the main event is when artists, both local and from around the world, descend on Carson City to paint murals on empty walls around town. I wrote about last year’s festival, and highlighted 12 new murals that had been painted over the weekend. This year, I have photos of 19 new murals! Downtown Carson is getting absolutely covered in murals and it’s great to see. Most of these are large pieces too, taking up an entire wall of a building. If this continues for a few years, we are going to be awash in art everywhere you look.

So let’s take a look at this year’s new murals. A map is available that includes last year’s and this year’s art so you can see where they’re located around town.

This might be one of the most exciting ones. The back wall of Heidi’s Restaurant had a mural on it for years, depicting the old V&T Enginehouse. That mural was painted over a few years ago and I thought it was gone for good. But as part of this year’s festival they brought in an artist to recreate the old mural!

Here’s a photo of the old mural to compare.

Heidi’s mural in 2007 (now painted over)