Art Alley Rapid City

Cool place to walk through. Some amazing artwork done by super talented people. Hard to miss if you are trying to find it. You can get some pretty cool photos here too. I think this is a pretty cool stop to do if you’re visiting South Dakota.

Very cool artwork, excellent concept for city’s alley way to add depth of art & culture to an otherwise blighted area between buildings. Ok for kids as long as you don’t stand around long enough for them to start reading the various graffiti in the margins. There is quite a bit of standard «tagging» but the murals definitely shine out and impress.

This is a neat concept, or use to be art by locals or visitors, but it seems lately people just tagging over the art making a mess.
Although this is a living art project tagging or messing up a piece of art just to be a jerk just isnt cool.
Give it a look there are some awesome pieces.

Most cities have a graffiti street like this, but it was a refreshing find in a remote area like Rapid City! Again, just like all alleys or streets like this, it’s an art-​driven place, so you can come back over and over again & be happy to find new things each time. As time evolves, so does the art.

In most cities if you saw paintings or mural that represented graffiti on the walls and dumpsters in alleys you’d probably not go around wondering the alley. Maybe it was the rain or something but I didn’t feel scared at all. It was relatively clean, no rats, no less fortunate person in the corner, no wanna be tough guys, and no funky smell. LOL it’s Rapid City was there really anything to be scared of.
This alley may even seem welcoming for people to visit and/​or participate in leaving their own a work. There was this one guy painting while the rain was drizzling down. There’s Bugs Bunny, Kermit the Frog, Minions from Despicable Me, words of inspiration, words of humor, and supposedly a glory hole, which I didn’t go out searching for haha.
A great place to catch local Rapid City artists to showcase their talents. I have a feeling you have to ask for permission before start doing your own work.

This place used to be so cool with timeless art pieces of local artists but now I think it really needs to redone, Its cool to Stroll through but definately needs a overall because now its pretty scriblbled over top of and needs to start from scratch and let other people try their art skills.

You Have to Stop Here If In Rapid City!!!

Art Alley is a great place to get many different looks into the minds of local artists and many want to be artists! We enjoy looking at all the different drawings, from amateur to some really nice drawings. This was a great idea and I even took my mother in law there when they visited.
It is worth a look!

Anyone from out of town or just visiting rapid city, this place to be added to everyone’s day planner because this place is a good find.
Trust me you would want to take lots of pictures of what i call it «innocent graffiti «this place ain’t the ghetto no tags, no explicits, just cool art.
Its a cool block to walkin too, strolling, looking at many artist that put in work here. You will see murals of some of looney toon characters, homer simpson, elmo, aliens, etc. lots of colors!
Art alley is worth a visit, especially that your in the middle of buffalo country add this to your itinerary :)

So much more than «just» a graffiti wall, Art Alley is a vibrant universe of color and art. Quotations, portraits, cartoons, canvases, and sculpture meld together in a sea of color. This must be what it feels like to step inside a painting.

Free, cool, good grafitti. Someone seems to have written the entire Tao Te Ching in this alley. We also spotted Wakko and Dot.

A really cool and random find. We were just wandering the streets taking it all in and saw this alley full of life and emotion on a quiet and dark evening. Its a must stop.

This made my trip to Rapid City well worth it. I will add photos later, but imagine in the best artists and graffiti artists were allowed to paint on walls and alley items like trash cans, fire escapes, gas and electric meters and you could walk down and see their work for free?
For an entire block you see words and paintings of welcome and protest. Reminders of MLK’s speeches, desires for peace and love, reminders of the suffering that has happened in our country, line the entire alley, and you are free to take photos as much as you want. There are memorial pieces, cartoons, animation, graffiti, gorgeous!!!
It made we wonder why we don’t allow this to happen in areas of every city. It was powerful and meaningful. The human capacity to be creative constantly amazes and delights me.
Bring your camera because something will grab your eye and you’ll wish you could keep a shot of it.