There’s something about a Spurs mural in mid-April that brings out the extra hashtags and selfies. And that something is the playoffs.
After a six-year drought, the Silver and Black are back in the postseason, a long-awaited return that tips off April 18. And what better way to celebrate than with a new Spurs wall for a new Spurs era?
That’s the mission of the Black and Silver Paint Jam, a live mural painting and graffiti battle that also makes its return after a years-long hiatus. The free event runs noon to 8 p.m. April 11 at the AV Expression building, 125 Guadalupe St.
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Hosted by the hip hop cultural organization Universal Style School Inc. in partnership with street art supplies store The Paint Yard, the Black and Silver Paint Jam will celebrate the Spurs, San Antonio and hip hop culture with an aerosol blitz of Spurs-inspired iconography and lettering, highlighting artists’ names and nods to the team just like the original event did in 2015.
Universal Style co-founder and principal G. Beatriz “Triz” Rodriguez, Ph.D., calls the event a cultivation of civic pride and a display of home team and hometown solidarity. Which could be said for just about any Spurs mural in the city.
“We as a people, as a community, we get behind our Spurs,” Rodriguez said. “I really emphasize to the people who are doing it that you better be a Spurs fan if you want to be on my wall.”
Of course, that’s just one of many Spurs murals worth a swing-by and a social-media shoutout. Here’s a roundup of some of the best Spurs murals around San Antonio.
Fiesta and the Spurs go together like Fiesta and Amols’, a family-owned party supply store with more
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The faded mural from the first Black and Silver jam — the mural that will be painted over — may look
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Another Spurs wonder wall going back to 2015, the Best Tickets mural gives the Spurs Coyote his perp
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For a brief minute in his post-playing career, Spurs great Tim Duncan manned the sideline as a Spurs
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Half hidden behind some trees, this Spurs mural by Bryan Mancera shows Duncan looking up at the Silv
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Wembanyama looms even larger than life on this mural San Antonio artist Alan Calvo billed as the big
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In 2023, several area artists immortalized Wembanyama in Spurs gear before he even donned a jersey.
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Across the street from the Spurs future stands its not-so-distant past with a mural by artist Albert
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Consider your Spurs playoffs and mural prayers answered with “Por Vida,” a 95-foot-tall depiction of
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If you visit only one Spurs mural hotspot in San Antonio, make it the Silver and Black Valhalla at R
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One of the newest Spurs murals highlights Dylan Harper, one of the newest Spurs additions who could
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Wembanyama has graced Southtown 101 on multiple occasions, both in person and on the outside wall. V
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Fiesta and the Spurs go together like Fiesta and Amols’, a family-owned party supply store with more than 70 years of papel picado, Mexican paper flowers and many other Fiesta party favors. Artists Michael Sanchez, J.C. Gómez-Molina and Bernard Moreno Jr. honored the Spurs’ past, present and future with murals of former Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, Spurs star Victor Wembanyama and reigning Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle, bordered by the famous “Fiesta” Spurs colors from the ’90s.
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The faded mural from the first Black and Silver jam — the mural that will be painted over — may look more like an archaeological find these days, but it’s still worth a visit if only to capture a before-and-after shot of the wall that French street artist Zeso first helped bring to life more than a decade ago. Rodriguez also will have prints of the original wall art.
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Another Spurs wonder wall going back to 2015, the Best Tickets mural gives the Spurs Coyote his perpetual day in the sun, courtesy fine art muralist Chris Montoya, the same talent behind the equally long-standing Selena mural on South Flores Street.
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For a brief minute in his post-playing career, Spurs great Tim Duncan manned the sideline as a Spurs assistant coach during the 2019-20 season, only to leave the job in November 2020. Street art duo Los Otros Murals immortalized the moment at the former Fire House Church with two Spurs men in blazers, Popovich and Duncan, set against a ’90s Spurs color swish. Around the bend, Los Otros honored another beloved Spurs great, Manu Ginobili, in his road jersey as he exited the court during the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs. Ginobili announced his retirement a few months later.
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Half hidden behind some trees, this Spurs mural by Bryan Mancera shows Duncan looking up at the Silver and Black’s five championship banners with current Spurs franchise star Victor Wembanyama by his side looking up at a placeholder for number six marked “NEXT CHAPTER.”
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Wembanyama looms even larger than life on this mural San Antonio artist Alan Calvo billed as the biggest Wemby wall in San Antonio. The grayscale giant measures 16 by 30 feet and features a shouting Wembanyama surrounded by lowrider imagery and skyline stalwarts, including the Tower of the Americas and the Tower Life Building, the latter of which will open this fall as Tower Life Residences.
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In 2023, several area artists immortalized Wembanyama in Spurs gear before he even donned a jersey. One of them was mosaic artist Oscar Alvarado. He and brother Robert Alvarado, owner of South Antonio Builders, crafted an 18-foot-tall standee of the presumptive Spurs star, which now overlooks Oscar’s sculpture garden outside his art studio.
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Across the street from the Spurs future stands its not-so-distant past with a mural by artist Albert Gonzales dedicated to the Spurs “Big Three”: Duncan, Ginobili and Spurs point guard Tony Parker. Together, the trio won four of the Spurs’ five championships.
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Consider your Spurs playoffs and mural prayers answered with “Por Vida,” a 95-foot-tall depiction of a votive candle dedicated to the team. San Antonio artist Andy Benavides led a team of talents behind the downtown show shopper, which was funded by the nonprofit downtown initiative Centro San Antonio. The candle features a Spurs road jersey and the year 1973 for when the team shed its tail feathers as the Dallas Chaparrals and moved to San Antonio.
If you visit only one Spurs mural hotspot in San Antonio, make it the Silver and Black Valhalla at Rudy’s Seafood. Nik Soupe of Los Otros has covered the South Side restaurant in spray paint portraits of Spurs players past, present and even future. (Soupe did murals of both Wembanyama and Castle before each Rookie of the Year even got drafted.) There’s a notable Spur for every era, from the franchise’s first star, George “The Iceman” Gervin, to the Spurs’ first championship ring bearers, Sean Elliott, Avery Johnson and David Robinson, to the other big three, Duncan, Ginobili and Parker.
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One of the newest Spurs murals highlights Dylan Harper, one of the newest Spurs additions who could bring the team a record three-peat for NBA Rookie of the Year. The Northwest Side Filipino restaurant celebrates Harper’s own Filipino roots with a detailed work by San Antonio artist Colton Valentine.
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Wembanyama has graced Southtown 101 on multiple occasions, both in person and on the outside wall. Valentine did the site’s first Wemby mural, which got a pre-draft visit by Popovich and a post-draft visit by the subject himself. Now the building bears Calvo’s mural “Wemby in Space,” an out-of-this-world likeness of Wembanyama among the stars holding Earth in an outstretched hand.
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Reporting by René Guzman. Editing by Jan Waddy. Visuals editing by Emree Weaver. Production by Angela Alcala-Bach. Powered by the Hearst DevHub.
April 4, 2026
René Guzman writes about all things San Antonio, from past and present to pop culture and puro cultura. He can be reached at rguzman@express-news.net.
Before joining the Express-News in 1998, the San Antonio native co-owned a college humor magazine called Bitter, for which he wrote, designed and edited, as well as distributed at various campuses and businesses citywide. His features writing has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Times-Union.