“The Color Project” is being done by a group of artists called the Rtists. They are aiming to create a more “colorful” and positive atmosphere in Ensley, Alabama. They got their first grant of $15,000 which will allow the group to paint their first mural. The Rtists hope that by
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“The Color Project” is being done by a group of artists called the Rtists. They are aiming to create a more “colorful” and positive atmosphere in Ensley, Alabama. They got their first grant of $15,000 which will allow the group to paint their first mural. The Rtists hope that by
San Diego’s East Village used to be a place of prostitution, transients, drug dealing, and gang activity in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The unpainted electrical and utility boxes served as the marking points used to conduct illegal transactions and were the reference points of criminal activity. The painted electrical and
The San Quentin Murals, painted by Alfredo Santos, depict the history of California through the eyes of an inmate. The murals were created over 50 years ago by then inmate, Alfredo, who was serving a 4 year sentence for the possession of heroin. Alfredo submitted a sketch in a competition
Nearly two years ago, San Diego artist Nicholas Nicholas coined the word “mendalism”. It happened on January 1, 2011 when he noticed that Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff’s untitled contribution to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Viva La Revolución street art exhibition had been vandalized. The mural’s red ribbon
Sometimes the shadow space where art and crime overlap is not money, not fame, but a vision. At least this is what Mark Patterson contends. His crime of installing the Surfing Madonna- a glass mosaic- under a train overpass in Encinitas was not motivated by senility or the search for