Programs

Mural maintenance
is the missing link.

Cities have capital budgets and facilities budgets. There's no line for mural maintenance, because the category hasn't existed yet. Anemos is that category.

Murals aren't a project. They're a collection.

A commissioned mural is the city's work, visible to thousands of people a day, expected to stand for twenty years or more. It deserves the care a sculpture would get, and when it gets that care, a legacy mural moves into the category of permanent public art.

Most cities have never had a path for that care. Programs close, staff turns over, and the institutional knowledge of who painted what and why moves on with them. The murals stay on the walls, and the walls keep aging without anyone to tend to them.

Anemos is the missing piece. A working relationship that keeps a mural collection alive across the years it's meant to live.

A large geometric landscape mural inside a public space, with people working and gathering beneath it
Inside Your Cup Starbucks Reserve — Seattle, WA
What we actually do

Four ways we work with clients.

Every engagement starts with a conversation. What comes after depends on the collection.

Advisory
Thinking alongside you
Help thinking through how to specify protection on new commissions, how to add a maintenance line to a budget cycle, and how to talk to artists about the care of their work. The conversation doesn't always end in a treatment.
Assessment
Condition reading
A documented read of each mural. Surface, substrate, exposure history, treatment history. This is the work that makes everything else possible. The earlier it happens, the more options remain.
Treatment
Cleaning, consolidation, protection
Treatment applied to an existing mural, or to a new one at the end of painting. Cleaning, consolidation to stabilize the paint, and a semi-sacrificial protective coating. The original work stays exactly as painted.
Documentation
Collection records
Every treated mural enters a documented record. Location, condition, treatment history, and what comes next. The kind of file that outlasts the people who commissioned the work.

Anemos was built for municipalities and mural festivals, where preservation happens at collection scale. The offerings flex from there. Let's talk about your collection →

Who we work with

If you have murals worth protecting, there's a place for you here. Any organization that has commissioned public art and wants it to last.

Collections
Municipalities
Cities and public art programs managing murals across neighborhoods, transit corridors, and civic spaces. Long-term preservation at the collection level.
Events
Mural festivals
Organizations producing annual or recurring mural programming. We come in post-festival and build a preservation cycle into what's already being created.
Institutions
Universities & campuses
Murals tied to institutional identity and history. Works that outlast any single class or administration, and deserve a care plan to match.
Development
Real estate & developers
Mixed-use developments, retail centers, hospitality groups. Anywhere a commissioned mural shapes how a space feels to be in.
Corporate
Corporate collections
Companies with murals in offices, campuses, or public-facing spaces where condition and presentation are part of the brand.
Nonprofits
Arts organizations
Community development corporations, cultural institutions, and arts nonprofits caring for murals as part of a broader public art mission.
The Mural Maintenance Program

This is the link.

Hand the collection over. We've got it.

The Mural Maintenance Program is the hands-off version of everything on this page. After a first completed treatment, clients can enter the MMP and turn the collection over to Anemos. We take it from there.

No surprises. No last-minute scrambles. Just a collection that keeps doing what it was meant to do, while someone else tracks the timeline.

The cycle

The MMP keeps the collection on a steady cycle. Checkups at year three, coating refreshes at year six, full reassessments at year twelve. Documentation stays current. Work gets scheduled around the client's budget cycle instead of the emergency that would've shown up without it.

For cities with active public art programs, this is what turns a series of one-off commissions into a collection that survives the next administration.

The MMP is offered after a first completed engagement, never before. Every client starts as a working relationship. The program is for collections that want to keep going.
Twelve-year cycle
Foundation
Yr 0
Initial treatment. Cleaning, consolidation, and protective coating applied. The collection enters the program.
Checkups
Yr 3
Condition review and documentation update. Minor touch-ups if needed. MMP clients only.
Yr 9
Condition review and documentation update. The cycle continues. MMP clients only.
Resets
Yr 6
Coating refresh. The existing coating is removed and reapplied. UV protection renewed. Clock reset.
Yr 12
Full reassessment. Consolidation re-evaluated and applied as needed. A new coating goes down. The cycle continues.

Let's talk about your collection.

Twenty minutes, no commitment. We'll walk through what you've got and figure out what makes sense together.

Schedule 20 Minutes → Or send a note instead →