…..on tour….
Melrose is a neighborhood in Los Angeles around the eponymous Melrose Avenue, located on Santa Monica Boulevard on the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and it ends at Lucile Avenue in Silver Lake. The area is a popular shopping, dining and entertainment destination in California. Surely you can also find famous urban artworks around here.
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The RiNo in Denver is the short form for „River North Art District“ and like it says, this area is the main place for art and creativity in town. It is delimited by the four streets Blake Street in the North, Larimer Street in the South, Broadway Boulevard in the West and North Downing Street in the East. RiNo is filled with galleries, bars, cafés, craft beer breweries and restaurants, also part of the district is Denver’s oldest neighbourhood Five Points. Of course you can find plenty of streetart, graffiti, murals and art in general here. It’s a really cool place to go out. Some of the murals were made during editions of the fabulous CRUSH WALLS FESTIVAL, which is the largest urban art event in Colorado.
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Raleigh was founded in 1792 and, with a population of 467,000, is the capital of the state of North Carolina. The booming metropolis with its big city atmosphere and southern charm offers a variety of cabarets and the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts is particularly worth a visit. The 10th Special Olympics World Summer Games were also held here in 1999. Of course, the city also has plenty of urban art to offer. Especially THE RALEIGH MURALS PROJECT has done a lot during the years and the DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE provides a great art map.
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The decommissioned Beech-18 adorned Davis Road in Fairbanks, Alaska, for years in its original paint scheme. In June 2024, it was transformed into a work of art that artistically captures Alaska’s natural forces in two different designs by the artist AKG (ANN-KRISTIN GÖTZ). The graffiti and fine-line elements are inspired by the Nordic-Arctic winter night and the hot summer days in the interior. Check out this great airplane artwork!
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The artist and photographer CHARLES SAMUEL WAIT is not only represented on our website as a painter with an interview, he has also contributed many articles on graffiti and urban art from the United States. As well he is a passionate photographer and has a preference for street photography and urban life, often industrial landscapes, construction sites or interesting architecture, but also just simple motifs or everyday objects.
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This place is not a real train yard, it is more of a stabling point for trains that are parked here for longer periods of time. Naturally a perfect surface for graffiti. New trains keep arriving and departing. Over time, they are decorated with new graffiti. The area is located at the outskirts of the historic Biltmore Village close to Asheville within a short distance to the River Arts District. There is an elongated set of train compartments stretching about 200 meters.
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The whole city of Miami is covered with awesome graffiti and streetart. One of the main hot spots is the Wynwood district which we already showed you, but there are a lot more magnificent artworks throughout town. Here is a collection of urban creations and wonderful murals at the Downtown district of Miami.
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The great artist AMIR SALAMAT paints fantastic worlds and complex abstract stories on small and large surfaces. But no matter how big or tiny the canvas, the wooden board or the wall is, it is always completely filled in a way that it awakens kind of new dimensions. The spice is in the detail. Exciting scenarios with a mix of historical characters from different cultures transport thoughts and feelings, often they are arguments about social issues and contain his dealings with them.
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Anchorage is a coast town located at the Cook Inlet bay and with around 290.000 inhabitants it is the largest city in in the US northernmost state Alaska. Recommended for visiting is the Alaska Native Heritage Center and the surrounding breathtaking nature. The city is the gateway to nearby wilderness areas and mountains such as the Chugach, Kenai and Talkeetna Mountains. Of course, there is also beautiful urban art here, especially the local artist ZIGGY has created countless large murals as well as smaller works of art across the city. These are often designed to match the locality or with images from historical events of the region.
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Besides the awesome painting artworks made by creative mind CHARLES SAMUEL WAIT, we show you now a collection of digital artworks in graphic style with an interview. Of course new canvas paintings get continously painted too, but also those new digital collages and the funny, graphic and emojylike characters with interesting little messages.
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