Mural Location: 13th Street between J and K Streets,
MPOA building behind The State Theatre

Patricia Pratt’s installed her mural at the MPOA wall on 13th Street, right behind downtown's historic State Theatre. A bouquet of wildflowers seemingly breaking free from the brick wall, it greets passersby with the sweetness of the natural world in an urban setting.

Hailing from Merced, Patricia is deeply involved in an emerging local art scene, owning and operating her own art gallery in Merced’s downtown. And her influence continues to reach beyond. She is California Director of Urbanists Collective, a non-profit art collective whose mission is to promote urban arts-based careers in the Central Valley. She is also a member of Las Hermanas, an all-female murals art collective, as well as a member of HEM Crew, a graffiti-based artis collective from Tijuana, Mexico. Raised in Delhi and growing in a lineage of sign makers and pin-stripers, Pratt’s keen sense of art as work began to blossom. Since, it has grown and evolved into what she sees as a tool for activism and positive social change, always mindful of her ancestry, nature, and lessons learned from teachers who share in loving yet straightforward manners. Of particular interest is the use of art as graffiti abatement, imploring cities to enrich and invest in environments with art instead of cover-up paint. We couldn’t agree more!