Tyrone Maurice Adderley Lecture Series Presents:
Public Art: The Mystery, the Magic, and the Making
featuring members of GN Crew Boston and Street Theory
April 21, 6:00-7:45pm, Tower Auditorium
Panelists:
- GN Crew: Genaro 'GO Five' Ortega, Rob 'Problak' Gibbs, Lee ‘Soems’ Beard, Luis ‘Take 1’ Taforo
- Street Theory: Liza Quiñonez
Moderator: Ekua Holmes
MassArt Public Art Tour
- Neighborhood Art Tour
A reflective guide that invites you to explore your calling as an artist. Designed as a tour of both inward and outward landscapes. You are invited to listen to the artists, the story-tellers and the prophetic voices that speak from the walls of this city, and to consider what your eyes and heart behold and compel you to create.
Books on Street Art
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by
An authoritative guide to the most significant artists, schools, and styles of street art and graffiti around the world. - Yale University Press
Call Number: ND2590 .S34 2013ISBN: 0300199422Publication Date: 2013-09-03
The Faith of Graffiti by
The Faith of Graffiti is a 1974 essay by American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer about New York City's graffiti artists. Mailer's essay appeared in a shorter form in Esquire and as a book with 81 photographs by Jon Naar and design by Mervyn Kurlansky.
Call Number: GT3913.N72 N44ISBN: 0275436608Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Painting Publics by
Public art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics, Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities. Painting Publics draws on a combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico, Germany, and France, there is even some state support for the production and maintenance of civic education through visual culture. In her examination of graffiti culture and its spaces of inscription, Bruce allows us to see moments where practitioners actively reckon with possibility.
ISBN: 9781439914465Publication Date: 2019-03-29
Modernism for the Masses by
A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract painting Artists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner created ambitious works for the Williamsburg Housing Project, Floyd Bennett Field Airport, and the 1939 World's Fair. Modernism for the Masses examines the public murals (realized and unrealized) of these and other abstract painters and the aesthetic controversy, political influence, and ideological warfare that surrounded them. Jody Patterson transforms standard narratives of modernism by reasserting the significance of the 1930s and explores the reasons for the omission of the mural's history from chronicles of American art. Beautifully illustrated with the artists' murals and little-known archival photographs, this book recovers the radical idea that modernist art was a vital part of everyday life.
Call Number: ND2638.N4 P38 202ISBN: 9780300241396Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Temptis by
The first appearances of graffiti 'tags' (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished. However, as the graffiti movement progressed and tags became more elaborate and ubiquitous, genuine artists emerged whose unique creativity and unconventional media captured the attention of the world. Featuring gallery and street works by several contributors to the graffiti scene, this book offers insight into the lives of urban artists, describes their relationship with the bourgeois art world, and discusses their artistic motivation with unprecedented sensitivity
ISBN: 9781780429298Publication Date: 2012-05-08
Flip the Script by
Distinctive hand style lettering is an essential skill for artists and designers. Deftly executed hand crafted letter forms are a nearly forgotten art in an age of endless free fonts. Graffiti is one of the last reservoirs of highly refined, well practiced penmanship. The most reviled and persecuted form of Graffiti, the Tag, is seldom appreciated for the raw beauty of its skeletal letter forms. Most tags are removed immediately, and thus the casual viewer seldom has a chance to discern the difference between entry level and advanced hand styles. Within the pages of Flip the Script, author Christian Acker has systematically analyzed the best graffiti hand styles, contextualizing the work of graffiti writers from around the United States. Acker presents the various lettering samples in a clean organized format, giving the material a proper, formal treatment evoking classic typography books.
Call Number: ND2608 .A254 2013ISBN: 1584234601Publication Date: 2013-02-15
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation by Call Number: N6537.B233 A4 2020ISBN: 9780878468713Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Street Art in Boston
- The Mural Project - Guide and Map
This comic tells the story of the “The Mural Project” through original illustrations, words from the artists, and a fold-out map that you can use to find the MFA community mural and other street art around Boston! - The Mural Project - Exhibition
As artists-in-residence at the MFA, muralist Rob “Problak” Gibbs and illustrator Rob Stull are leading a multipart project inspired by the exhibition “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.” Highlighting intergenerational connections and the importance of youth participation in cultivating hip-hop culture, the project includes a community mural, a series of original drawings, a publication and map of street art around Boston, and a documentary video. - Murals for the Movement at The MFA
No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper represents a collaboration between five legendary street artists and muralists: New York City-based Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka27; and Boston’s own Problak and Rob Stull.
Created at a time of deep social and political unrest, uprising, and awakening due to countless incidents of police violence against Black People and People of Color, it is dedicated to the victims of police brutality and mass incarceration. - Mayor's Mural Crew
The Mayor's Mural Crew is a Parks and Recreation program. The program started in 1991 as a summer initiative to cover graffiti with murals painted and designed by high school students. Over the course of the program, we've engaged with hundreds of young people. - ART-STON: THE MANY MURALS OF ALLSTON
A mural tour of Allston. by Emily Bass - MASA Boston Murals and Street Art
MASA is your art adventure sidekick. Explore neighborhoods, discover artists, connect with the heartbeat of a community. - Boston Mural Map
Since 2015, the City of Boston has worked with artists and community members to create many new murals. Some of these murals were completed by the Mayor’s Mural Crew. This map includes both recent murals commissioned by the City of Boston and those funded and organized by community and artist initiatives.
Street Art Web Resources
- Street Art for Mankind
We are a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization uniting prominent street artists from all around the world to free children from forced labor and slavery.
100% of the funds we raise go to awareness campaigns and actions on the field to save children, especially the raid and rescue programs operated by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi and its KSCF Foundation. - St. Lawrence University - Street Art Graphics Digital ArchiveUbiquitous in urban centers around the world, publicly placed stickers grace every imaginable surface of the built environment—addressing both the personal and the political, the mysterious and the mundane. The digital archive features examples from over forty countries with the earliest U.S. stickers from the Industrial Workers of the World - known as “stickerettes” or “silent agitators” - dating to the 1910s.
- Google Arts and Cultre Street Art
Street Art from around the world. - GEORGE FLOYD AND ANTI-RACIST STREET ART ARCHIVE
The Urban Art Mapping George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database seeks to document street art from around the world created in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and as part of an ongoing movement demanding social justice and equality. This archive is a repository for images made available for research and education (commercial use is not allowed). The metadata alllows for an analysis of the themes and issues that appear in street art, explored in relation to local experiences, responses, and attitudes.