7575 Melrose Blvd  - Melrose Art Wall

It was such a treat for me to spend time with DivaDogLA recently. I just wanted to wear their sunglasses, and go for a walk with them. Their energy makes me happy and I LOVE their style and clever use of glitter. It is always a delight to see that pup peeking through a fence or sitting on a street light post around street art walls like 7575 Melrose Wall, and other LA staples....

Since early March, NYC and much of our country has been on lockdown due to the COVID-19 epidemic, eliminating the mural commissions and commercial work that support street and graffiti artists' work.

We've rounded up 8 items you might find useful during this time, from journals to face masks and comfy gear to wear indoors. If you're going to cover up or be cool indoors this summer, you might as well look good doing it. If...

Feeling blue? The DS Club is here to rescue you. The "Dog Days," normally refer to the hottest part of the year or a period of stagnation and inactivity. We're all finding ourselves in the midst of the dog days of quarantine and let's just say, it's been 'ruff.' For many, it's a time of boredom, restlessness, feeling caged, and eating and sleeping more than we normally do. A highlight of the day are short walks around the neig...

If you aren't fortunate enough to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to visit the ArtClinicNYC, and pick up coloring packs and crayons from Monday-Friday 2pm-6pm, don't despair.

The Soldiers have been home coloring through the crisis with some of our favorite artists too. Here's a list of pages we've compiled, and if you'd like to be added or know of an artist that has coloring pages, please let us know. There...

In the fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering, players are pitted against each other in a strategic duel that involves monsters, curses, and spells. The decks are built with various characters and creatures with thousands of possibilities to choose from. The game is turn-based that includes five phases from "Beginning" to "End." There are certain Magic cards that are sometimes under estimated and under-appreciated, but add so...

(@art_by_eyebrows) curated by (@earlyrisernyc) (@a6wall) (@augustlauranyc) on Ave A and 6th Street

Frida Kahlomay forever covet the most famous pair in art, but today the brows we have our eyes on come to us courtesy of Lecrue Eyebrows, a self-proclaimed "weirdo artist." "Le crue" means "the flood" in French and from the LES to Bushwick, Williamsburg to Ridgewood, he overflows the streets with a steady stream of slaps most ofte...

I don't know about you, but I've spent a good portion of this Holiday break watching home-makeover shows. It has become a cold weather/day-off binge fest in my family for the last few years. Not only do multiple channels run marathons, but you can also find old episodes on any of your favorite streaming services. I enjoy every designy, artistic and restorative aspect of these remodels, and it only makes me want to get my hands...

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada creates 2 new murals in Madrid, Spain for "Greenpoint Earth Madrid 2019" for the UN Climate Conference COP 25.

These murals focus on climate crisis and the fight of indigenous people to save their lands and have been curated by Stephen Donofrio for Greenpoint Innovations. Continuing his subjects matter as he did in 2019  for Street Art Mankind, (covered here by Sarah Sansom), Jorge Rodríguez-Ger...

Standing proudly at 10,000 square feet, Rushing Waters designed by muralist Levi Ponce and Jacques Dupuy is a project 4 years in the making, and is the most significant public art project in the San Fernando Valley since 1978

  Video by @nicknackilms

This massive undertaking of Rushing Waters has come with its trials and tribulations, but resulted in a larger than life representation of the history of the city where it sits. I w...

On a chilly Thursday night, November 21, we met fabric street artist @FoodBabySoul in Bedford-Stuyvesant at a new work from her "shroud" series - grisaille knit covering an earlier colorful work meant to be painted and cut in upcoming iterations and at a 25-foot work from her "sweat" series, titled because we are "sweating ourselves to death with fabric trash." She explained always uses recycled cloth with the help of Annie Ke...

[Painting at Welling Court, 2016] 

[Finished wall at Welling Court, 2019]

Artist Maria "Toofly" Castillo caught her first tag over 25 years ago on her way to school in Corona, Queens.  She's since graced walls all over NYC -- including those at 5Pointz, the Welling Court Mural Project, MoSA Bowery, and Uptown GrandScale in Harlem.  

She's been prolific around the globe as well -- as a featured a...

Wanna know the 3 things you need to be a Street Artist? Well you should'a been at the City College Graffiti and Street Art class last night when we met the wheat paste artist, curator, teacher, artist's advocate, filmmaker, actor SacSix who works with brands and creates his own work in the street. SacSix is a long time friend of the class who wheat terrifyingly pasted with a bunch students a few spring semesters ago - we learn...

I've taught The Art History of Graffiti and Street Art class every other semester or so since 2011 at City College. Every session we meet with a section of amazing artists. 

On November 12 we met the Romeo and Juliet of the street art world @menaceresa consisting the graffiti bomber Menace Two and the classically trained art world denizen Reca Piece. You know the quote, "two households, both alike in dignity…from ancient grudge...

Tito Ferrara 1st painted the NYC streets in 2018, he obtained 2 walls with help from East Village Walls and neither lasted long before being tagged and bombed over. For his sophomore mark on NYC, he came much more prepared and with a purpose close to his heart. The Amazon is burning, and it is crucial to the stability of global climate. There are over 400 different indigenous groups that call the Amazon home, and one in partic...

I've taught The Art History of Graffiti and Street Art class every other semester or so since 2011 at City College. Every session we meet with a section of amazing artists. 

On October 3rd the founder of WallWorks John CRASH Matos and the director Anna Matos opened up the gallery just for our class - an opportunity so appreciated. We met with Wilfredo BIO Feliciano a member of one of the longest running graffiti crews in the c...