Kategorie: North America

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USA: Streetart Juneau – Alaska Capital – Urban Art in the Traditional Homeland of the Tlingit

Juneau is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska and has a population of approximately 32.000 inhabitants. The city was founded in the late 19th century during a gold rush and named after the gold prospector Joe Juneau. Long before European settlers arrived in the region, the area was home to the Tlingit people, who continue to play an important role in the region’s culture and identity to this day. Their traditions, artwork, and stories shape Juneau’s cultural life and are featured in museums and cultural institutions. You’ll also find beautiful urban artworks in the streets.

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USA: Streetart Seattle – Belltown Corridor – Urban Art Project by JOE NIX and ARTXIV

The urban art project BELLTOWN CORRIDOR in the Seattle is a streetart initiative launched by JOE NIX that transformed an otherwise ordinary alley in the Belltown neighborhood into an open-air gallery. The roughly one-block-long lane between 2nd and 3rd Avenue has been covered with large-scale murals by both international and local artists since 2016. The project was curated in collaboration with ARTXIV and with the goal to revitalize urban spaces and integrate art directly into the everyday life of the city’s residents.

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USA: Streetart Seattle – SODO TRACK – 4Culture, UrbanArtworks & SodoBia Mural Project

The two-mile rapid transit corridor leading into downtown Seattle was transformed between 2016 and 2018 when 4CULTURE commissioned 64 artists from around the world to paint 51 murals on the backs of industrial buildings. This open air urban art gallery is called SODO TRACK. The participating artists brought a broad range of backgrounds, styles, and approaches to the project with animated frames, patterns that evoke Native American dance movements, creatures that leap toward distant vanishing points, washes of color, bold graphic lettering, and much more.

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USA: Streetart Seattle – Urban ArtWorks, Base Camp Studios, Muros & Monorail Murals

Seattle is a major city in the state of Washington with a population of around 750.000 and over 4 million in the metropolitan area. Key attractions include the iconic Space Needle, the historic Pike Place Market, and the waterfront. It is also notable for its vibrant urban art scene, with murals and public artworks shaping the city’s visual identity. Great pieces got created for the MONORAIL COLUMN MURAL PROJECT and spaces like BASE CAMP STUDIOS, MUROS or the organization URBAN ARTWORKS bring continously new color on the walls.

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CANADA: Streetart Regina – Cathedral Village Arts Festival and Urban Art in Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada’s breadbasket. Small and peaceful, its urban parks are filled with frolicking hares. As for streetart, the scene is also small, but you can find some interesting pieces. 13th Street in the Cathedral neighborhood has a good concentration of them. The CATHEDRAL VILLAGE ARTS FESTIVAL has been held there for several years and includes a visual arts and streetart component.

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CANADA: Streetart Edmonton – Mural Festival and Urban Art at the North Saskatchewan River

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. North of Calgary, it benefits from the economic activity linked to the oil sands and is experiencing growth. The city is worth a visit. It’s built on cliffs on both sides of the North Saskatchewan River, offering lovely walks along the riverbank. On the south side is Old Strathcona, the historic heart of the city. Today, it’s a trendy neighborhood bisected by Whyte Avenue. There are many murals and streetart, thanks to the fantastic EDMONTON MURAL FESTIVAL.

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USA: Streetart San Francisco – Chinatown – Urban Art at the Birthplace of Bruce Lee

Chinatown in San Francisco is the oldest and one of the largest Chinese neighborhoods in North America, known for its pagoda architecture and its historical significance as a center of Chinese immigration to the United States, which is still alive here today. It offers unique cultural experiences with restaurants, shops, temples, museums, teahouses, fortune cookie productions, and markets that celebrate Chinese culture and cuisine. San Francisco is also the birthplace of the famous Chinese-American actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, therefore many murals in Chinatown are dedicated to him and his wisdom.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Metro Station Artworks – STM Collection – Société de transport de Montréal

The Montreal Metro comprises 68 stations and serves approximately 1.4 million bus and train rides daily. The first 20 stations were inaugurated on October 14th in 1966 and since then, the complex has continued to expand, but in addition to providing transportation, the metro network is also a vast art gallery with countless works, including wall paintings, installations, stained glass windows and sculptures. The transport department Société de transport de Montréal, or STM for short, curates and maintains these works.

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USA: Streetart Atlanta – Living Walls Festival and Urban Art in Martin Luther King’s city

Atlanta has around 510,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the US state of Georgia. The birthplace of African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King played an important role both during the American Civil War and during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Of course, there are also countless murals and graffiti in the streets and especially the local organization LIVING WALLS  is doing a huge contribution in making the city more colourful. Since its inception in 2010, over 500 public artworks have been created in Atlanta and beyond in collaboration with artists from around the world.

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CANADA: Urban Artist JADE BILODEAU – Geometrical Patterns in the Beauty of Nature

The Canadian artist JADE BILODEAU from Montréal deals with geometric symmetry and at the same time with those forms found in nature. Her motifs often show plants, flowers or animals, but these are abstracted in graphic styles. Especially blossoms and the representation of their structure can often be found.  She was and is very active in Montréal, but meanwhile also in other places around the world. We spoke to the creative artist in an interview about her art, how she started and where she wants to go.

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