Detroit ACE Office To Host Cookout Friday to promote Detroit Mural City Map, Recruit "Mural Hunters"

• Special Guest Will be Artists Sheefy McFly and Waleed Johns

Detroit ACE (Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship) is thrilled to kick off the summer with the Mural Hunter Cookout at 4 p.m. Friday, June 23 at the Butzel Family Center to recruit mural hunters and celebrate the Detroit Mural Map! 

Launched in 2022, the Detroit Mural Map, a digital museum of every mural in the city, has grown to include more 400 works of city street art.  

ACE encourages photographers, residents and tourists to become Mural Hunters and “Hunt Murals” at a time where they’re rising faster than ever before. The Cookout launches the Mural Hunter Contest to continue photographing murals to add to the map; The most prolific mural photographers who capture the newest murals will receive prizes! 

• 4 p.m. Remarks from Rochelle Riley, Director of Arts and Culture, Waleed Johnson and Sheefy McFly, who also will guest DJ! Sheefy is known as Detroit's Cultural Mascot, and Waleed Johnson is a native Detroiter who completed the city’s 100th mural in the City Walls fellowship program. His mural, “The Spirit” can be found at 3535 Van Dyke Street. Both artists have helped make tremendous impact in the mural community all over the city.  

Join us to celebrate the nation's No. 4 city in creating beautiful murals. 

The Mural Hunter Cookout will include local food trucks, and the first 50 guests eat free.  

To RSVP for the event, visit:  https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/events/654045145637/tickets  

Artists interested in submitting their work to the map can create a free account on the map at www.canvsart.com/artists.  

Photographers interesting in taking pictures of murals for the map can register for free at  www.canvsart.com/join-detroit.