Category: the painted desert project
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american rent is due
Having fallen into a state of disrepair on a highway heavily used by motorists from the Navajo nation and around the world the Painted Desert Project invited Phoenix based artist Thomas “Breeze” Marcus to assemble a crew of artists to envision the space differently.
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Raul Zito
Brazilian photographer and painter Raul Zito was a guest of the Painted Desert Project August 4 – 11, 2017. Before coming Zito and I talked a bit about the importance of using local, culturally sensitive imagery here on the reservation. In light of his short stay this wasn’t possible and he opted to share Brazilian…
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Ruben Aguirre + Twyla Hunt’s food truck
On a hot day on the Colorado Plateau in early June Chicago based writer + street artist “Looks_1” (Ruben Aguirre) met with Twyla Hunt to paint her food truck. Ruben, Twyla’s mom, Mary + Twyla discussed what he might paint while Twyla’s son swam in the sprinkler…
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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…
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home on the range
in sick dawn light… thanks to lucy manheimer for the use of her trailer! meanwhile, in cow springs… a year later…
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jazz-minh moore at claire oliver gallery (06.16 – 07.31)
thanks to artist andrew erdos for turning me onto this piece by jazz-minh moore included in her show at claire oliver gallery, nyc.
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new print!
just dropped! “i am the change” (otherwise known as “stephanie on parched earth”). 19 x 25, hand pulled screen print on archival paper printed by the good folks at ocelot print shop in detroit, mi. support the painted desert project to help get art on the roadside on the navajo nation for $50 including…
