Mural Music & Arts Project Headquarters

The Mural Music & Arts Project (MMAP) educates, empowers, and inspires youth through the arts. It began in 2001 as the East Palo Alto Mural Art Project, employing local teens to design and create a mural for every school in the local school district. Since then, teen artists have researched, planned, and installed a public arts legacy. These murals reflect themes of community, cooperation, equity, justice, environment, and local history. Active and enthusiastic support inspired MMAP to expand and diversify programming in 2005 to include arts education, hip hop, music production, and dance. To date, MMAP has served over 2000 youth, who have created 107 murals and produced 40 original tracks that was written, recorded, and performed by MMAP youth.

Now in its 10th year, MMAP offers year-round youth development programs for middle and high school students in both in-school and out-of-school settings. The majority of MMAP youth are Latino, African American, and Polynesian, many of whom are English-Language Learners. These youth face the greatest adversities imaginable to positive development.