News & Events

Announcing Our 2025 Mural Tour Dates!

Happy March! If you’re like us, you’re excited about the warm weather because it brings the return of mural tour season! This year, there are three completely separate mural tours available for you to take: The Midtown Tour: Features works like “Arise” by Ryan Spahr, “Three-Eyed Doe” by Tristan Bond, and “Eye” by Nick Napoletano…

Hall Manor, New Board Members, and More!

Happy 2025! We're starting the year strong with hundreds of artist applications and new team members. Check out our first monthly update for all the details…

A New Era: The Grand Opening of our Midtown Studio

Harrisburg, PA – Sprocket Mural Works celebrated its 10-year anniversary this November by throwing a housewarming party at its brand new studio space in Midtown Harrisburg. Photography by Landon Wise Photography by Landon Wise The party was a resounding success, bringing together artists, community members, and local officials to celebrate Sprocket's decade of achievements and look forward to the future…

Picture Paw-fect: A local dog trainer uses our murals as a backdrop for pack walks – and the results are adorable.

If you see a group of dog walkers crowded around Sprocket’s murals, it’s likely the ringleader of the group is Jillian Karns of Riverfront Dog Training. This year, Karns organized a mural-to-mural tour pack walk around Harrisburg. The event was part of a series of Saturday walks she hosts for her graduated dog training clients – a weekly canine social to help reinforce the impulse control and focusing skills they learned with her…

Meet York’s Biggest Cat: The vibrant feline adds an air of divinity to Royal Square.

Artist John Speaker puts the final touches on Royal Awakening, Sprocket's new York mural. When Central PA artist John Speaker got the offer to complete his first-ever outdoor mural with Sprocket this summer, he jumped at the chance. Getting out of the studio and onto the streets to create ‘Royal Awakening’ was like a dream to him…

Sprocket Housewarming Party

Sprocket Mural Works to Celebrate New Studio Space and 10 Years of Transformative Art with Ribbon Cutting & Housewarming Party Nov. 14 - 5-7pm1426 N 3rd St - entrance on Reily St Sprocket has our first community space, and we want you to help us break it in! Join us for a housewarming party on November 14th at our new home in Campus Square (1426 N 3rd St - entrance on Reily St)…

Sprocket Murals featured in Aerial PA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUjmq_aI07Y Drone Pilot/Editor/Producer: Doug WatsonGraphics: Tom Downing Aerial PA is a series is produced for Mosaic by WITF, Central Pennsylvania’s PBS and NPR member station…

Portrait of the Community: Sprocket Mural Works’ largest project showcases Harrisburg residents, behind the brush and on the wall

Odds are, if you travel through Brooklyn, N.Y., you’ll see some of Harrisburg-native Ian Potter’s artwork—it’s hard to miss. Although his name suggests a different type of art, Potter is a painter. Much of his time is spent on ladders, lifts and platforms against Brooklyn buildings. He works for Colossal Media, a mural company that hand paints advertisements for brands like Nike…

Mural Added to Landmark “Carpets & Draperies” Building

Revitalization project preserves historic Midtown building with modern mural twist. A soaring, three-story mural by Tara Chickey completes renovation efforts at the historic "Carpets & Draperies" building at 1507 N. Third Street in Harrisburg. "Using her signature color palette, which is bright and cheery, Tara's mural is all about color and shapes, and the way they interplay with each other," said Meg Caruso…