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Sarahlaine collaborates closely with communities and organizations to craft murals and brand identities that authentically reflect their values and aspirations. Her distinctive style blends figurative and abstract elements pushing artistic boundaries.
Explore Sarahlaine’s
Creative Universe:
Delve into the Heart of
Her Artistic Process
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Sarahlaine Calva (also known by sarahsface) began her career as an illustrator at the age of 17 but has always created art since childhood.
She then pivoted to become a muralist when she developed a love for the craft and took on clients on a whim. Before she knew it, she had made over 30 murals and installations (and counting) in the triangle and beyond.
Sarahlaine is a first gen-filipino American artist based in Raleigh, NC. She aims to bring imagination to life by caputring whimsical stories through the creation of intimate and public pieces.
Throughout her career, she has also contriubuted as a mentor, speaker, mural assistant, teaching artist, and this list goes on.
Her art often carries a playful and whimsical quality, with a youthful and cartoon-like charm. Her work combines figurative and abstract elements, featuring bold black line work reminiscent of those from comic books. Her portfolio includes a range of projects, from large-sccale murals, to more intimate pieces, comissioned work for brands and well as city government projects.
Sarahlaine has had the pleasure of working well-known entities such as Dreamville, PBR, Complex-con, Red Bull, E-bay, FILA and countless others.
Her work aims to captivate viewers with playful visual storytelling, transforming public spaces into vibrant and memorable environments. She hopes her work invites people to explore the intersection of imagination and reality and to find joy in the art around them.
About the Artist
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INDY week: City of Raleigh Public
Art Project Brings Colorful Murals
to Downtown Streeteries
For a week in June, multimedia artist Sarahlaine Calva’s hands made careful strokes of various lines and shapes using cans of spray paint as paint splattered on her pants in a chaotic arrangement. She was working on her mural for Virgil’s Cocktails and Cocina’s wooden streetery, an outdoor seating area located outside local businesses.
U.S News & World Report: Raleigh
Gets Creative With its Anti-Water
Pollution Campaign
RALEIGH, N.C. — One afternoon last month, artist Sarahlaine Calva kneeled on the sidewalk above a storm drain along John Chavis Memorial Park, southeast of downtown, painting a mural of giant flowers in vibrant colors.
The Wake Weekly: New Knightdale
murals to be unveiled
The artist responsible for the murals is Raleigh-born Sarahlaine Calva, who works with the United Arts Council of Raleigh-Wake County. Calva’s works include a collaboration with shoe company Fila and former NBA standout Grant Hill to create art for the basketball court at Hillside Park in Durham, along with the bus shelter at Airport Gardens in Chapel Hill and East End Park in Durham.
LEVEL UP ARTISTS Podcast Ep. 167: Developing
Style Through Murals with Sarahlaine Calva
On this episode we interview artist and muralist, Sarahlaine Calva. We talk about taking Action before you are ready, evolving your creative style through murals, being selective with commission clients, utilizing technology in your creative process, and pursuing projects you are passionate about.
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