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Graffiti art transforms North Ormesby park with positive messages  BBC Source link

Years of graffiti tagging at a fly-tipping hotspot in Rodbourne is being covered up thanks to the collective efforts of local people and a group of artists.  Resident Helen Salter's brainchild The Redcliffe Collective is aiming to brighten up the area to encourage people to have more pride in where they live. Their first project, on the side of a tailoring business in Redcliffe Street, features street art as ...

The Mayakovskii Metro Station's spacious halls and domes, sleek lined porticos and colored marble reflect utopian and modernist ideals when it opened in Moscow in 1938. Larger image. Photo courtesy of James Andrews/Iowa State University AMES, IA — From ghost signs to light shows, a new book explores how public art can illuminate urban spaces, foster community and reflect evolving social and ...

Plympton art project transforms subways with green message  BBC Source link

In 1921, white union workers at the meatpacker Swift & Company in Fort Worth, Texas, went on strike. Fred Rouse—a Black man with a family—was hired as a butcher by the company to replace those striking. On a December morning, he walked to the city’s Stockyards for work, crossing picket lines and racial lines. Walking home that night, he was attacked by strike agitators ...

A STRIKING street art project has transformed an unsightly subway in Coleraine and helped curb anti-social behaviour in the town. Community minded young people joined forces with local artists and educators to give the Christie Park underpass a new look. With vital support from Amy O'Brien and Sarah Carrington, local teacher Michelle McGarvey devised the project after becoming concerned by disaffected youths and anti-social ...

Zeynel Abidin Öztürk, who has been working as a visual arts teacher in Bayburt, northeastern Turkey, for 14 years, transforms goose eggs into pieces of art by embroidering motifs and paintings on them. Zeynel Abidin Öztürk, a 40-year-old visual arts teacher who transforms goose eggs into art, with one of his pieces, Bayburt, northeastern Turkey, Feb. 28, 2022. (AA Photo) Öztürk's talent went unnoticed ...

Get excited San Francisco—for the low, low price of $39.99 you can take part in the latest immersive art craze, this one themed around probably the most famous of all modern artists: Pablo Picasso. The show, called “Imagine Picasso,” incorporates images of more than 200 works by the late Spanish artist, whose creativity and experimentation defined the history of art for a big chunk of ...

Artist Jim Holyoak has lived around the world, but he grew up in the Fraser Valley and said the forests of B.C. have always lived in his imagination. “Even when I was living abroad, if somebody asked me where I was from I’d close my eyes and I’d immediately see fir trees in the fog,” he said. “I feel like I’ve carried that part ...

HOUSTON – A local artist has transformed her Houston Heights home as a canvass. Artist Kati Ozanic-Lemberger is using her fence to hang hand-painted tiles that document history.The rectangle tiles are from 2021, and the square tiles are for 2022.The paintings that cover the property line at the corner of Adele and Michaux Streets tell a year long story for Ozanic-Lemberger and her community.“It’s meant ...