Help This Person! Artist Needs a Giant Exterior Wall in Dallas for a Giant JFK Mural, Stat

Like history? Dallas-born artist, Sam Welty, loves it and is seeking a wall, any wall in Dallas. It doesn’t matter where, it just has to be a giant exterior wall where he can paint a giant mural of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The wall would be one in a series of murals Welty has painted on American History across the country, primarily on the eastern seaboard.

The first one is at Virginia Beach, dedicated to the military for Sept 11, a mural he is in process of repainting. The second is of the Battle of Great Bridge, located in Chesapeake, VA. This battle was the first victory of the revolutionary war. His third mural is on the Virginia Beach oceanfront and dedicated to the Navy Seals who found Osama Bin Laden.

The fourth mural depicts the Battle of Craney Island in Portsmouth,  Va.  on a wall surrounding a graveyard where several veterans of the battle are buried. The fifth one will be of Veterans Day in New York City, to be completed at the end of November with a charity that finds housing for homeless vets in the Bronx.

The sixth mural will be of JFK, in Dallas.

Sam began drawing when he was five years old. Drawing and eventually painting soon became a passion that led him to art school after graduating from high school near Dallas. While in art school, Sam asked his teachers how he could make a career out of doing what he loved — painting. Sam was repeatedly told that artists don’t make a career out of what they love doing.  He was told after graduation to get a day job that paid the bills so he could follow his passion and paint after work, on the weekends, like most artists.

This was not good enough for Sam. After leaving school, Sam found work in various art related trades in an effort to perfect his craft.  It led him to start his own mural business in 2003.   Ever since then, Sam has been creating custom wall murals on buildings and art pieces in almost every venue imaginable for a living.

Though he grew up in the DFW area, Sam moved to Virginia in 2000.

“I have started a series of historical wall murals that will cross the country throughout the rest of my career and life,” he says.  “The first was completed for the first anniversary of Sept. 11th in 2002.  During the dedication ceremony I realized that I wanted to spend the rest of my life using the skills and talent given to me to serve every community I could encounter.  Three more murals have happened since then with two more confirmed in the schedule.  A mural in the Dallas area for the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s visit will celebrate a great man and commemorate the terrible events that took him away. These stories and others like them will be told on the largest walls available as the Great American Mural Series crosses the USA.”