"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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Starheadboy + Public Art Campaign (Seattle, WA)

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"Our good friend Starheadboy recently put some wheatpaste pieces on the streets of Seattle depicting awesomely cute and rather thoughtful kitties frolicking in boxes while pleading the case for public art instead of advertising." (via Geyser of Awesome)

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AiOP Open Call//Deadline April 15, 2012

"Art in Odd Places (AiOP) invites citizens from all walks of life and from anywhere in this world to propose projects for its eighth installment in New York City. Taking place from October 5–15, 2012, along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, AiOP 2012: MODEL will proclaim 14th Street as the largest and longest runway in the world. MODEL intends to take pedestrians off their predictable paths and move them into a new awareness of their everyday landscape..." (via AiOP website)

OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST PROPOSALS

Deadline Sunday, April 15, 2012 midnight EST

Visit Artinoddplaces.org to submit a proposal today.

Check Out: Florian Riviere

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"Florian Riviere is an 'urban hacktivist' He founded and led from 2008 to 2012 the collective Democratie Creative very active in the public space of Strasbourg.

Inspired by the hacker culture, he reinvests and diverts public space to allow citizens to reclaim their environment. His interventions, located between urban design "Do It Yourself" and upcycling (upgrading waste), have the particularity to be spontaneous and raw, exclusively made with objects found in the street, and always with humor.
Games, furnishings, traps, maps, instructions ... : so many urban tactics to show the functionality of sites, and direct action of the user on urban space." (via FlorianRiviere.fr)

Daniel Lahoda on LA FREEWALLS Project

LA FREEWALLS is a community initiative in Los Angeles, California that gears its creativity towards promoting creative freedom and "positive cultural influence" within Los Angeles city.  In this video filmed by Jason Wawro, Daniel Lahoda discusses LA FREEWALLS and the potential it has to build LA into a greater, more well-rounded cultural landscape. 

AnOther Magazine Interviews Rob Montgomery

 

"For over a decade, Robert Montgomery has adorned the streets of various capital cities with phrases such as CIVILISATIONS COME AND GO LIKE AUTUMN RAIN and WHENEVER YOU SEE THE SUN REFELECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A BUILDING IT IS AN ANGEL in an effort to engage passers-by with his emotionally-charged, and often melancholic, abstract poetry. Working in the situationist tradition, he continues to relentlessly hijack advertising spaces in order to provide a reflective space in which a public so used to being psychologically bludgeoned into a consumerist daze can find some repsite from the relentless static of the modern world." (Via AnOther Magazine) 

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"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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