Dozens of artists will trade studio walls for Downtown Las Vegas streets on Saturday, Oct. 17, as the newly launched nonprofit Art Everywhere hosts its first mural festival on Fremont East, a free event running from 3 to 11 p.m. that pairs live painting with music, food and a push to fund public art across the Valley.
The festival marks the public debut of Art Everywhere, a nonprofit initiative connected to the Las Vegas arts group ISI Group. As reported by KSNV, the festival will feature more than 45 local artists painting live, alongside a vendor village, food trucks, and music and DJ programming. The event is meant to give local artists a chance to show their work while connecting them directly with residents, according to the station's report.
Las Vegas Weekly, which also covered the nonprofit initiative, describes the festival differently in scale, reporting that it is bringing 40 live-painting artists alongside local businesses including the Griffin, Taco Escobar and Corduroy. The outlet also places the event in Downtown's DT-Alley, while KSNV's account identifies Fremont East as the location — accounts that the dossier could not fully reconcile.
A Mission Built Around Spaces That Can't Afford Art
Art Everywhere's stated mission, per its own website, is to supply quality, large-scale mural art for places and people who otherwise couldn't afford to beautify their space, according to lvmurals.com. The same source notes the group intends to fund that work through sponsorship and fundraising. Las Vegas Weekly reports the broader aim is to raise money to bring murals and other curated work to shelters, schools and other overlooked corners of the Valley.
The festival itself aims to raise funds for new public murals in Las Vegas communities in 2027, per KSNV's reporting. CES Power, a Las Vegas-headquartered company that provides temporary power, power distribution and climate-control solutions for events and other projects, is the event's main sponsor and is contributing $10,000 to the event, according to a media alert cited by the station. That sponsorship is expected to help fund murals in Valley communities that may lack access to large-scale public art, the station reports. Meagan Romero, who serves as executive assistant to all C-suite leaders at CES Power, was named in connection with the sponsorship in the same report.
The Group Behind the Brushes
ISI Group, described by Las Vegas Weekly as a Las Vegas-based arts and entertainment group, was co-founded by Dana Anderson and Philip Limon. The company was established in 2011, according to lvmurals.com, and works with local artists to create murals and live art events. Las Vegas Weekly notes that with a growing rolodex of artists, ISI has been uniquely positioned to turn vacant walls into large-scale canvases — the same creative pipeline now channeled into Art Everywhere's nonprofit arm.
Part of a Wider Public Art Push
The Fremont East festival lands amid a broader expansion of public art across Southern Nevada. Over the months before May 2026, both the City of Las Vegas and Clark County's public art programs debuted multiple outdoor sculptures and murals, most of them by local artists, according to KNPR. That report also observed that public art today is defined more by its accessibility than by who is funding it — a dynamic reflected in projects ranging from Ugo Rondinone's privately funded Seven Magic Mountains near Jean, on land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, to a Downtown commercial billboard that the Jerez Law firm and Psionic Art Works turned into a rotating showcase for Las Vegas artists.
Fremont East itself is no stranger to this kind of creative density. The district already features dozens of murals, interactive art installations and live music around nearly every corner, according to Travel Nevada. Art Everywhere's festival adds a fundraising layer to that existing scene, with organizers hoping the live-painting spectacle doubles as a pitch for future murals the group has yet to place.
