Tulsa Murals Tour

You can learn a lot about Tulsa culture and history by peeping its street art. Explore our favorite murals on your own with this free guide to Downtown Tulsa street art. Updated August 2026. Scroll to the bottom for a map. Let’s begin in the Tulsa Arts District.

For a boutique experience, we can shuttle you around to these murals and more on a private driving tour.

Tulsa vintage postcard mural

Our favorite mural for hometown pride, this large letter postcard remains stunningly vibrant since Billy Brakhage painted it in 2015. T-Town symbols like the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in Woodward Park, Art Deco Mayo parking garage and soaring BOK Tower fill each letter. A solar eclipse due in 2045 occupies the “A.” The Philbrook Museum of Art extends below the “U” into the dazzling turquoise. Recent building renovations make this mural easier to photograph.

Tulsa Arts District | 211 N. Boulder Ave

Homeless vet mural

Tulsa has a robust network of social services, yet homelessness is still a visible issue downtown. This mural by Josh Butts, who served in Iraq, depicts a vet with long flowing hair. His gaze is locked on you. Against the wind, he pushes a cart of possessions, including a tattered American flag and hopeful-looking teddy bear. A quote about pain from Bob Dylan’s song “Idiot Wind” is in the corner. Completed in May 2018 for Mental Health Awareness Month, the mural is next to downtown’s most expensive restaurant, the Bull in the Alley.

Tulsa Arts District | 11 E. Reconciliation Way

Living on Tulsa Time mural

T-Town’s unofficial anthem is the Don Williams hit country song, Tulsa Time (1978). This mural by Hightail Creative features popping colors and geometric shapes along with a “stay gold” reference to Ponyboy in The Outsiders. Find this mural on Caz’s Pub catty-corner to the Guthrie mural below. Find these tour guides on our weekly tunnel tours!

Tulsa Arts District | 21 E. Reconciliation Way | @hightailcreativecompany

Woody Guthrie mural

The famed folk singer of “This Land is Your Land” hails from Oklahoma. Woody Guthrie (1912-67) sang about social, political and economic issues of his day. Time spent in NYC, LA and the heartland shaped lyrics that rang true all across America. This building houses the Woody Guthrie Center, a museum and archive full of Woody’s music and memorabilia, including handwritten lyrics to the song memorialized on this mural by Clean Hands co-founder Aaron Whisner.

Tulsa Arts District | 102 E. Reconciliation Way

Bob Dylan Center mural

A few doors down from Woody Guthrie is the Bob Dylan Center. Although Dylan was from Minnesota, Guthrie greatly influenced him and Dylan’s archives were purchased by a Tulsa philanthropic organization. This mural shows a young Dylan above the name of the center in commercial style signage true to the period of this former paper company.

Tulsa Arts District | 116 E. Reconciliation Way

Bruce Goff mural

“Bruce’s Tulsa” is a montage of the architect’s most notable local designs — done in the 1920s and using geometric forms. These Art Deco buildings include Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Tulsa Club Hotel, and Spotlight Theater. Learn more about architecture on our awesome Art Deco tour. Painted in 2023 by Jamie Pierson of Scraps Designs to coincide with the annual Goff Fest.

Tulsa Arts District | Behind Mexicali Border Cafe on W. Reconciliation Way at N. Boulder Ave

Cain’s Ballroom mural

A variety of musicians with ties to this legendary concert hall are painted onto the side of the highway just north of Cain’s. A fence blocks access to the mural from the street. You’ll find Bob Wills, Leon Russell, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, RC Edwards, the Hanson brothers, and many more. Local artist and musician Paddy Ryan painted this in 2024 to celebrate the centennial of Cain’s. Learn about the haunted history of Cain’s on our true crime tour!

Tulsa Arts District | 423 N. Main St, Tulsa

Día de los Muertos murals

In Mexican and Latin American culture, the Day of the Dead celebrates departed loved ones. It’s a happy and reverential time. Tulsa celebrates Hispanic heritage in early November with an evening festival put on by local organizations. Now faded murals with hopeful messages and symbolic skulls, skeletons, and flowers are viewable year-round in an alley by the building for Living Arts of Tulsa, the event’s organizer.

Greenwood | Alley bet. 307 and 321 E. Reconciliation Way

Jackie Robinson mural

The likeness of the first Black baseball player of the modern era faces Driller’s stadium. Jackie Robinson’s 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color barrier not only in baseball, but also all professional sports in the country. Robinson was an instant hit and won National League Rookie of the Year. Two years later he was the NL batting champion and NL MVP. After a successful 10-year career with the Dodgers, Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 

It’s only fitting that this mural overlooks home field of the Dodgers’ AA team in Tulsa on an historic Greenwood building that was rebuilt after 1921. This 26’ x 40’ mural was a collab between Thomas “Detour” Evans and Chris “Sker” Rogers. Sker worked on the Black Wall Street mural nearby and Detour did the Tulsa Sound mural in the Blue Dome District.

Greenwood | 120 N. Greenwood Ave (behind the barber shop)

History in the Making mural

This vinyl mural is a glimpse of Greenwood residents, educators, WWI vets, and entrepreneurs like Simon Berry standing by his airplane. Artists Skip Hill and Chris “Sker” Rogers unveiled it on the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial. It was sponsored by a Black-owned fintech platform called Greenwood designed for Black and Latino customers.

Greenwood | 111 N. Greenwood Ave (north wall of Sweet Lisa’s)

Black Wall Street mural

One of America’s most prosperous Black communities was destroyed by a murderous white mob 101 years ago. This powerful mural celebrates the material and cultural riches of Greenwood’s Black Wall Street while mourning its destruction. (Learn more about the Tulsa Race Massacre on a Black Wall Street Tour.) In 2018, Kansas City artist Donald “Scribe” Ross painted a 30-foot mural to tell the story and keep the conversation going after being suppressed for so long.

Greenwood | N. Greenwood Ave at I-244 (north side)

Tulsa Race Massacre mural

The burning of Greenwood Avenue is the focus of this powerful mural by Michael Rosato, created 100 years after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The central figures are styled after Michelangelo’s sculpture Pietà of the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus after his crucifixion.

Greenwood | 322 N. Greenwood Ave (outside Greenwood Cultural Center)

Murals on Gateway Tulsa Event Center

This desolate corner of downtown pinned against two highways and the railroad tracks is fertile ground for hunting street art. An entire block of warehouses with tenants like Clean Hands and Habit Mural Festival is a colorful canvas of evolving art. These two artistic groups are the creative force behind many murals around Tulsa.

East Village | 856 E. Admiral Blvd | @cleanhandsarmy | @habitfest

Take Me Back To Oklahoma - Bob Wills mural

Just steps from an old alignment of Route 66 is a larger-than-life tribute to Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The kings of Western swing performed the song “Take Me Back to Tulsa” in the 1940 movie “Take Me Back to Oklahoma,” which starred Wills as himself along with the Texas Playboys. Their tour bus, depicted here, sits in Wills’ hometown in northern Texas. To complete this giant mural, Clean Hands artists Aaron Whisner and Justin Baney used six gallons of paint and more than 100 cans of spray paint.

Blue Dome District | 514 E. 2nd St (mural faces 3rd St)

Leon Russell mural

A youthful Leon Russell surrounded by white roses looks ready to come to life. Jeks, a graffiti artist and muralist from North Carolina, painted this Tulsa rock legend in 2026 over his previous Russell mural with pink roses.

Blue Dome District | 415 E. 3rd St

Tulsa Sound musicians

Next to Russell above is another Jeks photo-realistic montage of Oklahoma musicians, including those who contributed to The Tulsa Sound. From left to right: Woody Guthrie, David Gates (of Bread), JJ Cale, and The Gap Band (Greenwood-Archer-Pine from North Tulsa). There are multiple layers. Pops of color spell “Tulsa” while the black and white background graphics include Leon Russell and a photo of Greenwood’s destruction. This mural from 2026 replaces Jeks’ previous depiction of Black musicians like Wayman Tisdale (a Tulsan) and Aretha Franklin.

Blue Dome District | 212 S. Frankfort Ave

Astronaut mural

This far-out mural by Jeks has a fish-eye reflection of the Blue Dome and Deco District skyscrapers. The arm patch for Tulsa Remote refers to a nonprofit incentive program to lure remote workers to live in Tulsa for one year in exchange for $10,000 and other perks. We just wish we had been offered $10k to move here and that this mural didn’t cover historic ghost signs, irreplaceable reminders of Tulsa’s commercial past.

Blue Dome District | 415 E. 3rd St

The Majestic mural (augmented reality)

Unlike any other mural in Tulsa, this one comes aaaalive! Activate the world’s largest AR mural by pointing your phone’s camera at the QR code on the sidewalk. LA-based artists Ryan “Yanoe” Sarfati and Eric “Zoueh” Skotnes collaborated on this dreamscape spanning 15,000 square feet.

Replete with Oklahoma imagery, The Majestic takes its name from the demolished movie palace that once stood on this site—now an unsightly parking garage.

In the central motif, an angel holds children representing the youth of Tulsa and is surrounded by a halo of Lululemon logos (j/k). Floating in the background are winged creatures like the downy woodpecker (North America’s smallest), black swallowtail butterfly (state butterfly), and the scissor-tailed flycatcher (state bird since 1951 and on Oklahoma’s standard license plate). Look for native flora like magnolia and redbud flowers and Art Deco motifs from the Boston Avenue Methodist Church framing the corners.

Where is the Majestic MuraL in Tulsa?

The Majestic mural is on the Main Park Plaza parking garage at 410 S. Main St at 4th St (Deco District).

Greetings from Route 66 mural

Next to the historic Meadow Gold neon sign on Route 66, this large letter postcard shows the nearby giant statues on the side of a trinkets shop called Meadow Gold Mack. It painted over a mural that commemorated a wagon bridge over the Arkansas River in 1904 without such foresight Tulsa wouldn’t be what it is today.

Meadow Gold District | 1306 E. 11th St at S. Peoria Ave

Mass Graves This Way mural

Motorists driving south on Peoria might do a double-take at the back of the Center for Public Secrets. The nostalgic charm of a Route 66 sign is darkened by the haunting message it advertises. Now an open secret, mass graves found at nearby Oaklawn Cemetery (on 11th Street/Route 66) are thought to be victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, pending forensic results. The documentary film Oaklawn sheds light on the continuing controversy of this effort to uncover the truth.

Pearl District | 573 S. Peoria Ave at 6th St

Lynn Riggs mural

Fans of the musical Oklahoma! should stop by this mural to honor poet and Hollywood script writer Lynn Riggs whose play Green Grow the Lilacs (1931) became the basis for the landmark musical a decade later. Riggs, a Cherokee, was born in Claremore just northeast of Tulsa on Route 66 and became one of the most important playwrights in the Southwest. As a gay creative during conservative times, he is celebrated here on the side of the of Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.

East Village | 621 E. 4th St

Dead Armadillo mural

A (soon-to-be dead) armadillo crosses the tracks under a full moon and downtown skyline at sunset. Founded in 2013 as of one of the city’s first three craft breweries, Dead Armadillo is best known for its Tulsa Flag blonde ale. The city flag is illuminated at left while in the sky the sparkles the brewery’s slogan, “Raise the Dead".

Pearl District | Dead Armadillo Brewery 1004 E. 4th St

Welcome to Gunboat Park mural

A welcoming sign to this quirky neighborhood brightens the back of a building across from the Route 66 Dog Park. A boatload of pooches with the Tulsa flag mimics the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware that hangs at The Met in NYC.

Gunboat Park District | S. Elgin Ave just south of 11th St (Route 66)

Leadership Tulsa mural

The Golden Driller stands among the downtown skyscrapers and street grid. Its outstretched hand has released a scissor-tailed flycatcher — Oklahoma’s state bird — that soars around the corner with keys to success in its beak. Leadership Tulsa is a nonprofit that provides participants the keys to success through education, connection and service. Carmen Taylor is the artist.

Gunboat Park District | 1151 S. Elgin Ave

Cathedral District mural (destroyed)

Along with a row of 1920s brick buildings, this mural was foolishly destroyed by First Methodist Church to make “green space” in an area that’s already saturated with vacant space from torn down buildings.

In between Cathedral Square and our favorite coffee shop Foolish Things, this vibrant mural brightens up a desolate corner of downtown. Against the backdrop of nearby churches (and one cathedral), God reaches out to give Adam life — the most famous scene from Michelangelo’s frescos on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Artist credit: Josh Butts.