Oviedo Mural Tour

Oviedo is full of colorful expressions of art, large and small. Some are easily found when traveling around the city. Others are hidden in small recesses of the city or within area businesses. OCN created a mural tour guide and map so that you can easily track them down and get the story behind each piece of art.

Want to take OCN’s Mural Tour Challenge? Send photos of the murals you visited from the tour to OCN and we’ll send you a local gift card (while supplies last). 

The Town House rainbow

Address: 139 N. Central Ave. in Oviedo

The Town House Restaurant is an old-school eatery featuring American & Greek classics. The family-owned business has been running for more than 60 years and has become a go-to breakfast place for locals. Leigh-Ann Tepper, who has owned The Town House since 2003, said she wanted to express her support for the LGBTQ+ community after the Pulse nightclub mass shooting that killed 49 people in downtown Orlando in June 2016. Shortly after the tragedy, she bought some paint and invited people from the community to help her create a rainbow on the sidewalk by the restaurant.

Since then, the rainbow has been used in many ways by the community: a backdrop for graduating seniors’ photos, a play area for kids and a colorful foundation for sidewalk art sales. Tepper said the simple rainbow has many meanings and The Town House customers find their own when they come across it. 

The Town House chickens

Address: 139 N. Central Ave. in Oviedo

The Town House Restaurant has a special place in local artist Sofia Livera’s heart because she has been coming there since she was a kid. She asked The Town House owner Leigh-Ann Tepper if she could “convey the spirit of Oviedo” using her art. Her idea came to life on a zigzag brick wall to the left of the restaurant entrance. Livera incorporated other nearby businesses in the mural by including chickens reading books from the nearby Walls of Books New and Used Bookstores and eating ice cream from Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream shop. 

The Pet Bow-Tique dogs

Address: 47 S. Central Ave. in Oviedo.

Muralist Joe Starkweather painted the breeds that The Pet Bow-Tique’s customers voted on: a golden retriever, a komondor, and a dachshund. Hunter Hall, one of Pet Bow-Tique employees, said the previous owner, Jennifer Canning, commissioned the mural three years ago to catch the attention of the city’s growing population. Since then, Hall said the pet shop has been referred to as “the building with the murals on it.”

Oviedo Brewing Company murals 

Address: 1280 Oviedo Mall Blvd.

Established in 2017, the Oviedo Brewing Company is a relatively young business owned by an Indian immigrant Vishal Chunilal. Chunilal said the mural design combines his and the artist’s ideas. He wanted to attract more visitors and connect the mural to the spirit of Oviedo by adding a chicken and peacock as centerpieces. Joe Starkweather, a muralist with rich experience in graffiti art, said he added a graffiti-style splash of color on the animals’ tails to challenge himself and make a mural memorable.

The ‘Greetings From Oviedo’ Mural 

Address: 299 Center Lake Lane in Oviedo

The ‘Greetings From Oviedo’ mural was unveiled at Oviedo on the Park by artist Xavier Moss in 2019. The painting was to be a part of The City of Oviedo’s Public Arts program with financial support from the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency in 2019. Learn more about the CRA’s investment in local art in this article. Moss struggled to fill the large space, but decided to make a list of all the things that make Oviedo unique, the roosters, swan boats and sunsets. The space filled up quickly. “It brings me a lot of joy doing this for the community,” Moss said.

D’Amico and Sons mural 

1170 Oviedo Mall Blvd. in Oviedo

The mural in front of Oviedo Mall’s newest retail addition, D’Amico and Sons Italian Market, is designed to give outdoor diners a sense that they’re on a street in Italy, said artist Denise Manara (the same artist who created the murals inside the mall). 

A second mural above the market’s awning is a ribbon of pastries, pastas, coffee, wine and gelato, which Manara said is meant to beacon hungry passerbys. 

The Artistic Hand Gallery mural 

Address: 353 N. Central Ave. in Oviedo

The Artistic Hand Gallery and Studio is a local art studio and gallery that provides weekly classes for adults and children. The studio was established in 1990 and was founded by a husband and wife team, Del Seaman and Barbara Walker-Seaman. The mural has animals, hidden chickens, the unofficial emblem of Oviedo, and, of course, Del himself. The mural was done by Ken Pease, an artist in Central Florida who specializes in painting on scraps of wood. 

Oviedo Mall’s walls 

The mall commissioned 11 murals on its interior walls, all by Denise Manara, the owner of Calliope Street, an art and wine boutique with painting classes, located in the mall. 

Eight of the 11 are along the walls within the mall’s management hallway near the west entrance of the mall. The paintings include small plaques that show folks how to interact with the murals and share how many hidden chickens are painted into the murals. 

The newest addition to the hallway are large, pink angel wings, done to celebrate the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation, located within the mall. A ninth ‘birthday’ mural, designed as a backdrop for birthday selfies, is planned there.  

Manara also painted the murals on the east side of the mall near District Eat and Play Oviedo, which reflect some of the games offered in the entertainment venue, Manara said. Calliope Street offers a map in-store of the paintings around the mall.

Black History mural

Address: 891 E. Broadway St. in Oviedo

The Black History mural in Round Lake Park was also done by Xavier Moss. Like his other work with the city, it was a part of Oviedo’s Public Arts program. The mural celebrates important historical events and African American residents in the city’s history. 

Moss heavily researched the people he featured in this mural and was glad to shine a light on these individuals’ contributions to the community. He said he hopes the mural educates people in the community, as it educated him, which is why a plaque explaining each aspect was created for the front of the mural.

Oviedo Aquatic Center murals

Address: 148 Oviedo Blvd. in Oviedo

Xavier Moss’ work strikes another place in Oviedo, with three murals around the Oviedo Aquatic Center: two in the gymnasium and one in a hallway. Moss said he drew inspiration for these murals from Brandon Smith, who is a graphic artist for many movies and TV shows, such as “The Equalizer 2”. Moss said he tried to use the least amount of lines possible to resemble the fluidity of recreation and sports. For the 81-foot mural in the hallway, Moss said he used abstract pointillism and pop art to reflect the diversity of the city.

The Food Factory Foodie Collective murals 

Address: 888 City Walk Lane, Oviedo 

The large mural on the brick exterior of the Food Factory Foodie Collective, as well as the hallway mural showing people moving the distillery were designed by former co-owner Ruth Zwieg and artist German Lemos and painted by Lemos. 

Lemos designed and painted the rest of the murals within The Food Factory, including the alcohol theorem in the restroom hall and the designs inside the bar around the two fire extinguishers. Lemos has a studio called Studio Art Farm, located in Mount Dora and Zwieg is an interior designer. 

Did we miss a mural in the community? Please contact us and tell us about it so that we can add it to the tour!