Mural venture combining art and Sunday Night Soccer kicks off in Tampa

The worlds of athletics and art collide thanks to a mural undertaking from NBC Sporting activities that coincides with the network’s Sunday Evening Football coverage. And it kicks off Thursday in Tampa.

The interactive art campaign, named CanVS, commissions artists in every host city during the NFL season’s Sunday Night time Football games to paint a five-property-extensive canvas motivated by authentic-time input from fans. It begins in Tampa with St. Petersburg-primarily based artists the Vitale Bros., at the 2021 NFL Kickoff Expertise on Thursday in advance of the Bucs-Cowboys season opener.

Fans can participate with ideas based on their favorite teams possibly onsite or on-line by browsing snfcanvs.com. The web site includes each individual week’s done mural, online video of dwell painting, a “word cloud” with phrases or text impressed by the groups, the 2021 Sunday Evening Soccer schedule and a sweepstakes to gain tickets to Tremendous Bowl LVI.