CANADA: Streetart Montréal – UNDER PRESSURE – Graffiti Jam – Fantastic Urban Art since 1995

Today we show you awesome artworks from several editions of the fantastic event UNDER PRESSURE, which is the oldest street art festival in Montreal, perhaps in America, maybe in the entire world! It was founded by the two local street artists SEAZ and FLOW in 1995 and its primary mission is to encourage community involvement through urban culture, and thus contribute to the development and influence of urban arts at the local and international level. A real great happening!

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Vieux-Rosemont – Canettes de Ruelle – Urban Art Festival – 7th Edition 2023

In 2023 the fantastic urban art festival CANETTES DE RUELLE took place for the 7th time in Montréal. On September 2nd, 3rd and 4th more than 50 artists created fabulous artworks around the Vieux-Rosemont district and beautified the neighborhood. Check out the page about this awesome event with numerous murals from big to small, as well there are new pages for the previous editions.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – BREAKING WALLS 2023 – Graffiti Jam & Urban Art Festival

From 23rd till 25th June in 2023 the first  BREAKING WALLS jam took place in the streets of the Montréal district Hochelaga Maisonneuve. This non-profit urban arts and culture festival was organized by KOLORS, who are dedicated to empowering at-risk youth all over the globe through a variety of urban art therapy workshops and mural projects. The event also was supported by NBQ and STAY TRUE with equipment and paint. Here are the several artworks from the spray sessions, hopefully many more are going to come on following jam editions.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Lachine – Duff Court Legal Wall – ARTIST GALLERY

The “Lachine Graffiti Program” by the “Comité Graffiti Lachine et Ville de Montréal” has been working since 2003 to raise public awareness of urban art. It also works to create links between the community, traders, community workers and graffiti artists. Every year, the Lachine Graffiti Program organizes a weekend jam session at the Duff Court Legal Wall. It is located at the noise barrier on highway 20 along the Michel-Ménard Park in Lachine borough. Here is a collection of the great creations from the past years sorted by artists.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Vieux-Rosemont – Canettes de Ruelle – Festival Gallery

The adventure of the Canettes de Ruelle began in 2017 in an alley in the Montreal neighbourhood of Rosemont where a special street artist lived a few years ago. It started with a little artistic jam with a few friends and a few beers. Since then, the event has continued to grow and mature. It is helt at an alley south of Masson Street between 6e and 9e Avenue in Rosemont-La Petite Patrie borough. Indeed, the alley in question is in the Vieux-Rosemont part of the district. More beautiful editions are going to come in the next few years! Here we have a gallery of some of the artworks sorted by artists.

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CANADA: Streetart Vancouver – Vancouver Mural Festival – Annual Artist Gallery

The Vancouver Mural Festival, or short VMF started in 2016 with demonstrating the transformative power of art in the city. Meanwhile they cover nine neighbourhoods not only every year during the event, but also have several creative and colorful side projects running. In 2020 during the Corona pandemic they started the initiative #MakeArtWhileApart and curated murals on boarded-up storefronts. In summer of the same year artists contributed on that festival edition about 60 new murals plus three weeks of live performances. Check out the huge gallery!

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