Celso Mural @ Boys and Girls Club – 22 Franklin St

This mural by Celso González Quiñones decorates the Boys and Girls Club building in downtown Lynn. It was created during the 2019 Beyond Walls Street Art Festival, the program that has brought large-scale public art to the city’s downtown. González Quiñones is a Puerto Rican mosaic artist known internationally for mixed-media murals and community projects, and his work often celebrates where he came from, where he has gone and where he is going.

Over the eight years before the Lynn project, he worked on a commission from the government of Puerto Rico, creating more than 40 monumental public art projects across the island. Every one of his projects carries community significance, and in Lynn he worked with local youth groups and brought them into his creative process. He has said that this involvement with the community is the most gratifying part of his work.

What to Know

• The mural was organized by Beyond Walls, a Lynn nonprofit that runs the city’s street art program.
• It is listed by the Downtown Lynn Cultural District as public art.
• A photo gallery of the mural was shot by John Andrews of Creative Collective.