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POW WOW Street Art Festival, Long Beach, California 2017

August 16, 2017

Contemporary art initiative POW! WOW! return​ed​ to the city of Long Beach, California for their third consecutive year ​during the summer of 2017​. Artists from around the globe participated in the week-long festival bringing art and culture to Long Beach with live mural paintings, art exhibitions, talks and more. “We are so excited to have […]

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Ernesto Maranje, The Rhino and the Oxpecker, Street Art Mural, Paint Outside The Lines Lebanon 2017. Photo Credit Selina Miles

Ernesto Maranje’s Street Art Mural The Rhino and the Oxpecker in Lebanon, 2017

August 13, 2017

Awareness and Prevention Through Art aptART are back again with ‘Paint outside the lines’, an international street art campaign, highlighting the importance of inclusive and diverse communities. Last year we saw the project with Ernesto Maranje in Portland. This year aptART launched ‘Paint Outside The Lines’ project in Lebanon, working with youth from Syria, Palestine and Lebanon together to paint walls […]

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Jake Aikman Paints his First Street Art Mural in Kiev for Art United Us, Ukraine 2017

August 11, 2017

ArtUnitedUs 2017, curated by Iryna Kanishcheva and Geo Leros, are well underway in the second season of street art murals to promote peace across Ukraine, creating an entirely new history. For the third mural in the second season ArtUnitedUs invited Londoner Jake Aikman, who currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Studio based painter Jake Aikman paints to capture the mystery […]

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Street Artist Fernando Leon feels Greedy with his Mural in Barcelona, Spain 2017

August 9, 2017

Contorno Urbano, the first Foundation in Spain to be fully dedicated to street art and graffiti, invited artist Fernando Leon to paint a mural as part of their project Project 12+1. 12+1 is an open-air art gallery, one which changes each month. The project will see twelve artists over twelve months, cover one fifty square metre wall, one […]

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Lakwena, The Unexpected Urban Art Festival, Fort Smith, Arkansas 2017. Photo Credit JustKids

The Unexpected, Urban Art Festival, Fort Smith, Arkansas 2017

August 9, 2017

Creative house ​Justkids recently wrapped up its third edition of ​The Unexpected​. The annual urban art festival took place from 23- 30th  2017, bringing together world renowned artists to create larger than life art experiences in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A challenge but also a game changer for the area. Artists invited to come and play […]

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The Acidum Project, CURA Street Art Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2017. Photo Credit Instagrafite

The First CURA Street Art festival in Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2017

August 7, 2017

The first edition of CURA (Urban Art Circuit) Street Art Festival hit the streets of Belo Horizonte, Brazil on July 26th until August 6th 2017. Belo Horizonte was named for its beautiful view of nearby mountains (Beautiful horizon). It is the third largest and the first planned modern city in Brazil. Belo Horizonte has countless dimensions to the […]

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Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Brick Lane, Shoreditch, London 2017. Photo credit Jose Pando Lucas

Street Artist Add Fuel goes out on the Tiles in Shoreditch, London 2017

August 4, 2017

Portuguese artist Add Fuel recently spent time in London for Festival Iminente, curated by fellow street artist Vhils, that brought a weekend of music and art to the streets of London. Add Fuel left a permanent art reminder ‘Remember your Roots’ on the famous Brick Lane, Shoreditch, an area dedicated to street art, paste ups […]

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Curiot, Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans Street art festival Cancun, Mexico 2017. Photo Credit Tre' Packard.

Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans Street Art Festival, Cancun 2017

August 4, 2017

PangeaSeed Foundation, the international marine conservation organisation, in collaboration with Proyecto Panorama, and Cancun’ s image urban commission (CIMUC), hosted the street art festival Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans in Cancun, Mexico. The festival took began towards the end of July through to August 4th 2017,  to generate awareness and explore creative solutions surrounding the region’s […]

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Sasha Korban Street Art Festival

Street Artist Sasha Korban finds Harmony in Napoli, Italy 2017

August 3, 2017

Ukrainian artist Sasha Korban/Саша Корбан has just finished his mural in the picturesque town of Airola near Naples for In Wall We Trust International Street Art Festival 2017. The title of the artwork is “Balance/ Harmony” and took five days to complete. The mural depicts a female dancer on one tiptoe whilst using her arms and right […]

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INO, Street art mural. Photo credit INO and BLOOP Festival 2017.

INO returns to Ibiza to paint for BLOOP Street Art Festival preview, 2017

August 2, 2017

BLOOP Street Art Festival, an avant-garde art project by BiokipLabs, will officially be taking place from 23rd August to 9th September 2017 in Ibiza. This celebration of People and Arts is completely free for everybody, showcasing fine arts to new arts such as graffiti, video mappings, cutting edge music, paintings, sculptures, workshops, interactive installations and […]

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Mono and Seth, Back to School! Ukraine. Photo credit Alena Saponova

Street Artist Popay goes Back to School! Ukraine, 2017

August 2, 2017

Back to School Ukraine is curated by French artist Julien Malland aka Seth Globepainter and Oleg Sosnov, Mural Social Club, with the support of UNICEF Ukraine and Sky Art Foundation. The project is dedicated to the mural art in schools, kindergartens and other locations, related with children or education, in socially vulnerable zones. France based street-artist Juan-Pablo de Ayguavives aka Popay […]

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