{"id":570499,"date":"2026-08-16T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570499\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:04:23","slug":"artists-transform-portlands-cove-street-with-20000-square-feet-of-jungle-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570499\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists transform Portland\u2019s Cove Street with 20,000 square feet of jungle murals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) &#8212; This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look. (Courtesy of Jared Goulette)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/36d49647-4596-4c9c-8f06-85b5ca366983-jungle05.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look. (Courtesy of Jared Goulette)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re painting more than 20,000 square feet of murals on building walls in Portland.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look. (Courtesy of Jared Goulette)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/533112c9-f9b0-42a2-ac4d-24ace4586afb-jungle04.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look. (Courtesy of Jared Goulette)<\/p>\n<p>Local, regional, and graffiti artists are painting jungle-theme murals at 84 and 91 Cove Street.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look. (Courtesy of Jared Goulette)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/00bbe234-859b-4063-87d0-686c553bf27e-jungle03.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look. (Courtesy of Jared Goulette)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re mostly using spray paint and bucket paint to create new art.<\/p>\n<p>They started Friday night and will continue through the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) &#8212; This weekend, about 30 artists are giving Cove Street in Portland a new look.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-570499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}