"Boa Mistura Uses Graffiti To Connect Communities" (via Huffington Post)

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"Street artists Boa Mistura sees their graffiti as an intervention...Their latest, "Luz nas Vielas," is in the Sao Paulo favela (shanty town) of Brasilandia. The troupe painted the walls of the town bright colors, and using a clever visual trick -- painted words that appear to float when viewed from, a certain angle. With words like "Amor" (love) and "Firmeza" (stability), the project is right in line with the group's mission." (via Huffington Post)

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The RedBall Project\\Touring World Wide

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Artist Kurt Perschke has created a giant red ball made out of vinyl that is touring cities throughout the globe as we speak.  His objective with the ball is to activate the imagination of people in cultures world wide and inspire/remind them to play and live actively. 

An excerpt from his artist statement: Through the RedBall Project I utilize my opportunity as an artist to be a catalyst for new encounters within the everyday. Through the magnetic, playful, and charismatic nature of the RedBall the work is able to access the imagination embedded in all of us...

The larger arc of the project is how each city responds to that invitation and, over time, what the developing story reveals about our individual and cultural imagination.

To see if the RedBall is coming to your city, visit RedBallProject.com.

"St. Louis to Host National Arts Conference" (Via STLToday)

"St. Louis will welcome artists and activists from across the country for “Rustbelt to Artist Belt: At the Crossroads,” a national convention that explores how the arts can create social change. The convention will be April 12-14 at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel." (Via STLTODAY.com)

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"Uptown Palazzo Project" (Via New York Times)

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"For the last several weeks a group of more than 30 artists — some well known, like Mel Chin, Sylvia Plachy and Bronx veterans like John Ahearn and the collective Tim Rollins and K.O.S. — have been at work in the [Andrew Freedman Home], turning old bedrooms and bathrooms into installations that mine the building’s eccentric history as a way of drawing in the life of the borough around it. 

An exhibition of the pieces — organized by No Longer Empty, a nonprofit art group that got its start in 2009 by using spaces made vacant by the recession — will open April 4, granting the public access to one of the city’s stranger Gilded Age palaces for the first time." (Via New York Times. Read More >>)