“Dreams” – A Los Gatos Mural with Heart
You now have one more reason to visit downtown Los Gatos: to check out the new mural in town! Pick up your morning brew at Los Gatos Coffee Roasting and then wander across the street to brainstorm on a title…
Morgan Bricca
Morgan Bricca is an internationally-renowned mural artist with over 25 years of experience in public, residential and commercial art. Morgan's signature work transforms spaces into visually compelling environments, drawing inspiration from nature and human connection. Her work celebrates local communities and history, with murals spanning from her home state of California to the Dakotas and the Carolinas, as well as in Portugal, China, and beyond.
Mural Roadtrip – Bears, Badlands, and North Dakota
The Heritage Museum Watford City, North Dakota I was commissioned by Le Roy and Sheryl Lillibridge to paint a landscape mural featuring the badlands of North Dakota for a museum in Watford City, North Dakota. I loved my time in…
Where Do You Get All Your Ideas From?
Montclaire Elementary School Cupertino, California The best response I have heard to the complaint, “I don’t have any good ideas!” is this: “Show me your bad ideas.” When we terrified of the possibility of trotting out a few bad ideas, we…
Farmworkers of Napa Valley Mural
As an artist, it is a great privilege to highlight less visible stories. When I first searched for images that would inspire a farmworkers mural (using keywords like Napa Valley harvest, grape pickers, etc.) most of the images Google returned were some version…
Painting Hope – The Wellness Center Mural @ Greene Middle School
Welcome to spring! The weather is warming up, and I am beginning to thaw out from what feels like a very long winter. The birds are chirping, the news is promising, I’m starting to imagine a world where I can…
Every Creative Impulse that is Followed Leads to…
More. Every creative impulse that is followed leads to more creative activity, and a more creative life. I have recently been working my way through the classic but perennially useful course on creativity, The Artist’s Way. I first did the course…
Now on Sale: The Mural Artist’s Handbook
Virtual Book Launch Party! Somewhere in March, I realized 2020 was going to be a different kind of year. I pondered how I might be of service as I followed stay-at-home orders. I calculated that since half of my work…
From Orchids to Oranges – Custom Residential Murals
Hi Mural Friends, This year has been full of surprises. For example, it turns out, the world as we once knew it can be completely rearranged. School, work, travel as we knew it: all transmuted into a zoomingly distant memory. I…
How’s Your Zoom Background? – Give it a Mural Makeover
How’s Your Zoom Background? At this point, we are all too familiar with the Zoom drill: turn off your background music, turn on the lights, close the door so the dogs and kids don’t disrupt your meeting. Some of your…
Art is Catharsis and Declaration
Art alchemizes fear into a higher vision, pain into possibility, loneliness into community. Art is catharsis and declaration. Art is omen and medicine. Atoning. Attuning. Art is the subconscious craning to be attended, transcendence embodied. Art is the Divine’s search…