What is Street Art? Why is It Around? Jax Street Art.

[Metro Jacksonville]

What is Street Art?  Why is It Around?  Jax Street Art.



Ok...... 'Street Art" is one of the most powerful art movements in the world today, and Jacksonville has spawned several truly great street artists.

This however has not led to any real recognition of the art form, with the notable exception of the Five Points neighborhood, the underground studio scene in Springfield and the blog posts of Joey Marchy at UrbanJacksonville.info.

The art form was allegedly banned from the Riverside Arts Market as well as the annual Festival for the same reasons that caused both Rock and Roll and Jazz music to be banned in 'tasteful' communities around the country in the last century.

Turn, Thursto, Tommy Armageddon (and some would include the Urbismo team) are probably some of the most exciting artists ever to come from our city and yet the art form that they practice makes their art 'unsuitable'.

Maybe this is partially due to confusion about what Street Art is.



Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2009-jun-what-is-street-art-why-is-it-around-jax-street-art

[obie1]

Not to be rude, but who wrote this, it's the most confusingly written article I've ever read here. 

quote: "Street Art has evolved past even a simple curiosity,  political messaging system or even simple populist art."
What does this sentence even mean?

Also- "uppity art market" ?? Sounds like whoever wrote this article has a few axes to grind.

quote: "Turn, Thursto, Tommy Armageddon (and some would include the Urbismo team) are probably some of the most exciting artists ever to come from our city "

call me insane but I will bet $500 or an Obama poster that one of the artists listed in this sentence wrote this about themselves.

[BridgeTroll]

Ian probably has many more but...

http://www.myspace.com/shantytownpub

[obie1]

Thanks. Much better. The whole article makes more sense now. I will drop off my fake Obama poster soon.

[TREE4309]

Shaun "Thursto" Thurston did a lot of the Shantytown work...

http://shaunthurston.deviantart.com/gallery/

[obie1]

I am curious- the Riverside arts festival banned screened posters, or they didn't want a wall dedicated to graffiti, or what? I know that burro bags and arturo had stuff there when I've been. How are they determining what can and can't be sold or do you just mean that they don't want street artists tagging walls and the bridge. Care to elaborate?

[tom p.]

i love street art it's good seeing someone talk about it positively. would like to see a new run of urbismus. i have to find out if   no street art work/artist is allowed in the arts market. i'm pretty sure the director isn't against it. arturo was there last week but they weren't selling posters.

[JaxByDefault]

Hee hee ... Just saw an artist putting up a wheat paste stencil and a couple of posters up in the area of the Riverside Arts Market today.    Obviously some of it's getting past gatekeepers.

[Ocklawaha]

WANTED! Street artist to put art around JTA and City Hall with streetcars and streetcar conductors... Let's call it a reverse Transit Wrap! Skyway supports would work just great! Oooh I can see them squirm now!









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"NEVER GIVE UP - NEVER SURRENDER!"

[Charles Hunter]

I guess it goes from "street art" to "vandalism" when it's on your property, and not someone else's!

Some pretty amazing artwork in the article, by the way.

[JaxNative68]

Can we street art all of the vacant lots to make them look as if they are inhabited?

[shanshan1218]

i have always enjoyed seeing the old couple and the punk rocker on the building. i didn't know there was such great artists behind this...

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

Seen in Riverside - love this one.

[nomeus]

Can we street art all of the vacant lots to make them look as if they are inhabited?

...do what they do in Detroit with vacant lots.....plant community gardens!

[Bike Jax]

We will be having a Street Art Scavenger Hunt as part of The Night Ride on May 5th. Street Artist get your game on.