Tag: Public Art

Mad Homes Seattle opens this weekend—See your neighbor’s house shrink wrapped!

Riley and I met up with the creators of Bherd Studios over the weekend at The Lookout on Bellevue Ave E. in Capitol Hill. Lucky for us, we passed the work-in-progress of Mad Art’s Mad Homes Exhibition. A 3 week urban installation of public art that opens this Saturday, July 16th. Learn more about the exhibition and Mad [...]

Street Art in Cleveland: A Season for Change

I saw this urban mural near Detroit Ave. on a recent visit to Cleveland, Ohio. Google image search didn’t lead me to the artist, so I am not sure who to credit. I did find images of the almost complete colorful street mural, references to this Walt Whitman poem, and that it was commissioned by Cleveland Public Theatre. [...]

350.org Launches the World’s First Art Exhibit Large Enough to be Seen from Outer Space

eARTh 350 is exploring how art can affect social change. From Nov. 20–27, the week before this year’s UN Climate Meetings, 350.org is coordinating over a dozen public art installations about climate change across the globe. Will this planetary scale exhibit achieve a new perspective on the planetary challenge of global warming? A satellite company, [...]

Giant Whale Sculptures in the City!

I was walking down Broad Street in Philadelphia when I turned and saw these life size gray whales. Amazing. The artist Shay Church thinks about the long daunting migrations gray whales must survive each year. He describes his wet clay installations as migrations interrupted. Just when you think you have seen everything you come across [...]

Mant Farm—A place of life.

By guest author Jesse Arnold Miller, read his blog Artchival or follow Artchival on Twitter. LBW (Lost Boy Wandering), Lazzlo, Hotpants, Ice King, Homegrown, Papi, ,Therapist, Berkley, Also, Legasurous, Muffy, Weeza, and many more with their self guided names make up the Sober Free Society, a creative crew that is starting a new dialogue about the [...]