Kategorie: USA

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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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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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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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USA: Streetart Las Vegas – Urban Art Festival „Life is beautiful“ – Downtown Murals, Streetart & Graffiti

Las Vegas is located in the Mojave Desert of Nevada and is considered the casino Mecca for all gamblers. The city has a population of around 660,000, but attracts more than 40 million betting visitors from all over the world every year. The Boulevard Strip is lined with pompous motto casinos, from an Egyptian pyramid to the Grand Canal from Venice or a replica of the Eiffel Tower. But there are also fantastic urban works of art and large-scale murals around. Many of the great artworks were done during the annual urban art and music festival LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

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USA: Streetart Los Angeles – Melrose Walls – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

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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USA: Streetart Denver – RiNo Arts District & Five Points – Crush Walls Festival

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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USA: Streetart Raleigh – North Carolina Capital – Raleigh Murals Project & Downtown Raleigh

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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