NEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy of Design announced nine public mural projects as recipients of the 2025 Abbey Mural Prize, an annual award that supports the production or restoration of public murals across the United States.
Selected by a jury of artist and architect members of the National Academy, the following projects were chosen through a national open call for proposals announced in March 2025, and each will receive grants ranging from $10,000 to $30,000, for a total of $145,000.
Recipients of the 2025 Abbey Mural Prize of the National Academy of Design
• Community Quiltage, Artists: Thomas Campbell + Stash Maleski, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, California
• constellation (rumi maki), Artist: William Cordova, ArtWorks Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Outside meets Inside: A Wallpaper Installation for The Redwood Library and Atheneum, Artist: Andrew Raftery NA, The Redwood Library and Atheneum, Newport, Rhode Island
• Learning Commons Mural Student Portraits, Artist: Thomas Chung, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), UAA/APU Consortium Library, UAA Learning Commons, Anchorage, Alaska
• We Are The Watershed: Rio Fernando Mural Project, Artists: Mariel Rose Garcia, Scripture + Dimitri Kadiev, Taos Initiative for Life Together (TiLT), Taos, New Mexico
• Madrugada Tapestry Restoration, Artist: Luis Felipe Larrazábal, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Law Library, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Tchoupitoulas Floodwall Mural, Artist: Jamar Pierre, Tchoupitoulas Art Corridor, New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Forest West, Artist: Valérie Hallier, Westbeth Artist Housing, Westbeth Artists Residents Council, New York, New York
• Magic Carpet Mosaic, Artists: Saaba Lutzeler + Janet Sanders, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, St. Louis, Missouri
The 2025 Abbey Mural Prize Jury consisted of National Academicians: Marlon Blackwell NA, Squeak Carnwath NA, Glenn Goldberg NA, Sangram Majumdar NA, and Jean Shin NA.
Created in 1932 through an endowed bequest in honor of illustrator and muralist Edwin Austin Abbey NA, the Abbey Mural Prize awards grants to support the creation and restoration of public murals in the United States. Since 1940, the National Academy of Design has awarded funds to hundreds of individuals or organizations who are building on a tradition of public murals as instruments of social activism, neighborhood revitalization and community engagement.
