About Jaz
Jaz Erenberg is an Afro-Latina Community Artist and Arts Educator in Baltimore City. Her projects aim to bridge the gaps that exist between communities, by focusing on ideas that bring us all together.
“I strive to create public spaces that are a reflection of the people that build, maintain and uphold our city. Valuing community engagement during the design and installation phases helps to reignite a sense of ownership and pride within those neighborhoods. It also ensures that,… more
Portals & Passageways
This immersive piece takes viewers on a journey from reality into the collective consciousness, asking viewers to be here in this place, but reimagined. From the expansive skyscape painted on the once-forgotten gas station canopy to the maze-like stairways leading off the page, onlookers are invited to take a collective breath and land in this new space.
Using bold colors, clean lines, and multiple painted textures, the 2 worlds collide; our reality, and this burst of creativity, leaving viewers to observe what imaginative potential all our city spaces hold. What if we reimagined space to make people feel good, supported, and seen?
The journey starts behind the auto shop and the fantasy is revealed right around the corner.
Completed in September 2023
Located at 1919 N Charles St. Baltimore
K & J Auto
Series of 7 Murals with a total of 9,000 sq ft
Completed in 3.5 weeks with a team of 5
Immersive Mural project commissioned by The Mayor’s Office for the return of Artscape in 2023.
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Portals and Passageways Artscape 2023
Video interview of Artist Jaz Erenberg taken while installing her largest project to date for the return of Artscape 2023.
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Photo credit Jade Olivia McDonnell
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Photo credit Jaz Olivia McDonnell
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Photo credit to Jade Olivia McDonnell
Bauhaus Blue
Completed in June 2023
Located at 1733 Maryland Ave. Baltimore, MD
Dimensions: 715 sq ft
Completed in 1.5 weeks with a team of 1.
Funded by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts Community Arts Grant
Color, shape and line are highlighted in this 'less is more' Bauhaus inspired mural. Vividly colored shapes backed by a black wave connects the mural across the bay windows, leading to the studio entrance.
Stripes activate the negative space and bring movement to the flat shapes. An eyeball is featured front and center to symbolize that this is a place where you can feel seen, also representing the viewers of art in the gallery that used to reside here.
Only Love Grows Here
Completed in November 2022
3106 Greenmount Ave. Baltimore, MD
Dimensions: 280 sq ft
Completed in 1 week with a team of 2.
Funded by Waverly Main Street
This dreamy mural depicts the act of ‘growing love’. A large black hand tosses orange marigold petals that fall into the night sky, igniting the viewers’ imagination, transporting them to a world built on love. Huge bright orange marigolds are used to symbolize love and passion, the petals being sprinkled into the starry night sky, like releasing a wish or planting a seed.
Viewers are invited to stand on either side of the text “only love grows here”, which is positioned to fit into the framed panel that is already on the wall.
For the Love of Tropics
Completed in November 2022
Artist Residence
Upper Fells Point, Baltimore, MD
Dimensions: 450 sq ft
Massive leaves are draped over a swirl of color that wraps the home in tropical wonder.
Those strolling down South Durham Street are unlikely to miss Jaz Erenberg’s eye-popping brush strokes. With assistance from her family, the muralist and artist has enlivened the outside of her own Upper Fells Point home, and it’s her most personal project yet—a culmination of her Jewish, Black, and Puerto Rican roots that features punchy hues and vibrant vegetation.
“When I leave my front door, almost 50 percent of the time, there’ll be someone outside to enjoy it,” says Erenberg. “We get to encounter happy people. It’s been beautiful.”
Excerpt from Baltimore Magazine Article, written by Grace Hebron.
Braiding Seeds
Completed in May 2022
Client: Our Time Kitchen
117 W 24th St. Baltimore, MD
Dimensions: 1,600 sq ft
This mural follows the story of the seeds that have shaped southern cuisine. The seeds were braided into enslaved people's hair. In the center Black hands share those seeds through the generations. The seeds land into a giant glowing Mimosa blossom. A braid weaves through the entire piece. Okra stands proud in the front with Baltimore native a fish Peppers hanging from the corner. Basil, cannabis, and plantain broadleaf leaves peek out at the top. The mural stands in a garden of healing and edible plants planted by chefs Cat and Kiah at Our Time Kitchen with the community. Neighbors helped to paint in the bottom layer of leaves on a painting day facilitated by the artist. This project was made possible through the New Public Art across Maryland grant funded by MSAC.
Bloom, Baltimore
Completed in May 2023
Initially Located at Pimlico Race Course
Dimensions: 160 sq ft each
Baltimore is blooming in our own way. It may not always be pretty or neat, but the generational resilience that lives within our city will carry us through the hard times. So BLOOM Baltimore, we see you. Bathed in the sunset, birds fly home to their nests, navigating the multitude of cables that crisscross through the sky, creating a prism like effect.
2 of 8 Murals created alongside B/lue Robin & Yewande Kotun Davis.