"Art is Business
"WIDE OPEN WALLS MAP. Filter by year location, or click “Surprise me!” to learn more about the murals and the artists behind them in the Wide Open Walls Mural Festival. Due to COVID restrictions, we are not offering any tours now. Please Take yourself on a tour by adding murals to a custom Sacramento mural tour.
Ms. McDaniels has contributed to over 150 murals to the landscape of Sacramento, Stockton, and San Francisco. These collections can be found in Sacramento Unified School District, Sacramento Arts Commissions, County of Sacramento, Florin Business Arts Complex/Sojourner Truth Murals Project.
Before 1996, Shonna McDaniels was one of the co-founders and artists of the Visual Arts Development Project (founded in 1988). McDaniels taught art classes, conducted workshops, and organized art exhibits throughout the Oak Park and Del Paso communities. She has donated art to various organizations and helped raise money for charitable causes throughout the Sacramento Region. She has over 25 years of community involvement with various organizations that support the arts through exhibitions, artist residences, community activism, community murals, and organizing community-based festivals in South Sacramento.
