Category: community
-
flagstaff x la misión
Wow. It’s been a busy couple weeks which included prepping like a big dog for the Mountain Film festival installation, going to Telluride at 9000 feet to do the installation with the occasional small piece going up in Flagstaff. Shout out to Brooklyn Street Art who’ve scheduled to run the story of the Telluride installation…
-
adios + gracias hermano
I started the Painted Desert Project in 2012 uncertain how long it would go. A friend at the time warned me to watch out. “Once street artists hear about this project you’ll start getting requests from all over and it’ll get out of control,” he said. Fortunately, this hasn’t happened. However, one such random request…
-
suicide + the human spirit
I called a fellow physician in Tuba City about a month ago to get his guidance. I had a patient coming down off a several week binge who was open to inpatient rehab. Despite my being here 28 plus years I wanted to confirm with my friend who has been working on the rez 30 years…
-
it only got up to 23 degrees today
santa outside tuba city Luci’s trailer on Christmas Day It only got up to 23 degrees today. Not only was it cold, it was windy as shit. All day. Cold + windy. As I was driving from the rez into Flagstaff I was thinking of the effort Klee Benally is making…
-
building community
“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war and he does at his best what lover’s do which is to reveal the beloved to himself and with that revelation to make freedom real.” James Baldwin When I started wheat pasting large images along the roadside in 2009 I imagined…
-
good stuff going down
new times interview before the show at chartreuse contemporary gallery in phoenix is here! stay tuned! stickers and a screen print of this image of stephanie on j. r.’s house from 2010 will be coming out soon.
-
“ain’t i a woman?”
In 1851 Kingston native Sojourner Truth electrified audiences at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, OH with an extemporaneous speech on the value of womanhood known as “Ain’t I a Woman?” Having been invited to create a mural for the O + Festival in Kingston, New…
-
kicking it with j c + the family
ha! silly me. i thought i was just going to jc’s house to get a photo of her holding my new 1 color, hand-pulled screen print on archival paper (which features her as a 6 month old). but no… “rethink coal” 15″ x 25″ archival…
-
brooklyn!
shout out to the homies lunar new year, nanookso, jess x chen, dan budnik, meredith potts, brooklyn street art and the bushwick collective for helping to make this project happen. brooklyn street art article huffington post