COTTON STREET

The Borderland Jam is a yearly two-day open exhibition of graffiti art held in El Paso at the intersection of Cotton and E. 3rd Avenue.

Since 2015, for the Presidents Day weekend, painters from all around the world have gathered at the Borderland Jam location to paint the walls of multiple warehouses. Each artist is given a portion of a wall to paint; an invitation is required to participate.

The murals often depict some aspect of Chicano history. Coincidentally the wall is in close vicinity to Magofin House, the ancestral home of a multiracial family that actively took part in American colonization and development, military service, trade along the Santa Fe-Chihuahua Trail, the turbulence of the American Civil War, and relations between the United States and Mexico.