BSA announces a huge success for the international open call for the mural and residency in Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain). BSA is partnering with Contorno Urbano Foundation on this massive and sweet 400 square meter wall - and 284 artists from 42 countries have applied to win the competition to paint it! |
BSA has been helping hundreds of artists to connect with opportunities for a decade, and we like this people-powered non-commercial organization that actively sponsors Street Artists, graffiti artists, conceptual artists, mural artists to paint walls in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, an industrial city and municipality in Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona. |
Next Step: Pre-Selection |
Next step is the pre-selection of the 12 finalists by a committee made by members of the City Council, 2 curators and a street art specialist. In October the names of the 12 finalists will be revealed and they will create a sketch for the ultimate selection in November. Members of the jury: Creation of the mural: The artist chosen will win a 7000€ prize and all the fees will be covered. The wall will be paint in Spring 2018 after an artistic residency in order the artist knows the historic context and the city. The mural will represent the neighbors’ fight 30 years ago to have this public square created instead of a gas station. In Spring 2018 the selected winning artist will have a residency in Barcelona so you can get to know the city, the people and the context for creating the mural. This is a WIN-WIN opportunity for the winning artist to create something meaningful and lasting for a community and to meet some really amazing people here and in Barcelona, the vibrant Spanish city that has played an important role in the rise of the global Street Art scene. |
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Exploring New Techniques and Processes with Elian, Jaz and Ever in Mexico City
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This week BSA is in Mexico City in collaboration with Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (UN) to see what is steering the scene on the street, meet artists, visit artist compounds, museums, galleries, and studios – and of course to capture the wild and dynamic Street Art and graffiti scene here. Where Mexico […]
BSA Film Friday: 11.24.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. PROCESS: BSA Raw Video with Tres Gauchos Elian, JAZ, Ever Siempre 2. “See Her” by Ann Lewis 3. The Grifters. RAGE DFS 4. Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace BSA Special Feature: PROCESS: BSA Raw Video with Tres […]
Panteón and Watchavato “No Esto No Es Lo Que Fue” Opens In Mexico City
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This week BSA is in Mexico City in collaboration with Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (UN) to see what is steering the scene on the street, meet artists, visit artist compounds, museums, galleries, and studios – and of course to capture the wild and dynamic Street Art and graffiti scene here. Where Mexico […]
Saner, Mexican Muralist and Painter, Studio Visit. BSA X UN X Mexico City: Day 2
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This week BSA is in Mexico City in collaboration with Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (UN) to see what is steering the scene on the street, meet artists, visit artist compounds, museums, galleries, and studios – and of course to capture the wild and dynamic Street Art and graffiti scene here. Where Mexico […]
An Unlikely Museum for Street Art? MUJAM is in the MX MIX : BSA X UN X Mexico City: Day 1
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This week BSA is in Mexico City in collaboration with Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (UN) to see what is steering the scene on the street, meet artists, visit artist compounds, museums, galleries, and studios – and of course to capture the wild and dynamic Street Art and graffiti scene here. Where Mexico […]
Perplexing the Poles, Mark Jenkins Plays Publicly in Łódź
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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.19.17 : Barcelona Special
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Barcelona this week was a tale of many opinions, passionately expressed, even hammered home. Geographically at the epicenter of a fight for/against the secession of Catalonia this fall, the conversations about everything from futbol to Guaudi to tourists can take on great enthusiasm. Although, no one argues about tapas. Tapas are just always good. The […]...Read More
Vandalizing Mario Testino in Berlin, at Helmut Newton Foundation
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Now that we are closing the exhibition, how would you like to vandalize it? Mimi Scholz . Mario Testino “Undressed” Helmut Newton Foundation. Berlin. One Day Only Street Art Intervention curated by @strychninberlin. (photo courtesy @strychninberlin) That’s basically what Yasha Young said to three artists this week in Berlin. Of course Hera from Herakut said […]
BSA Film Friday: 11.17.17
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Now screening :
1. We're Street (Somos Rua) - Rollerblading as Urban Art and Performance
2. PEZA - Yoseba MP
3. Don't Fret Does Commercial Gig for Sports Team
4. "Complex Meshes" Miguel Chevalier, Fabian Forban, Krista Kim, REO
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And The Winner Is… ESCIF ! (Barcelona Dispatch 2)
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This week BSA is in Barcelona to participate in the Contorno Urbano competition to select an artist for a new community mural and residency in the municipality of Sant Feliu de Llobregat – and of course to see the famed Barcelona Street Art scene as it continues to evolve. Street Artist ESCIF is Chosen as […]
BSA en Barcelona: Miss Van, La Escocesa, and Reskate! Dispatch 1
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This week BSA is in Barcelona to participate in the Contorno Urbano competition to select an artist for a new community mural and residency in the municipality of Sant Feliu de Llobregat – and of course to see the famed Barcelona Street Art scene as it continues to evolve. Fresh off the plane from New […]
Andreco Charts Sea Level Rise Predictions Along Venice Canal
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“Man is nature becoming conscious of itself ” ~Elisée Reclus Focusing his public art and Street Art work on raising our consciousness about the Earth and drawing the connections between us and our environment has been Andreco’s focus for most of this century. Like the 15,000 strong Union of Concerned Scientists who just released a […]...Read More
BSA in Barcelona for Fundacion Contorno Urbano “Mural Salut”
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BSA is in Barcelona right now and we are honored to collaborate with Fundacion Contorno Urbano and their project Mural Salut. Working in conjunction with the municipality of Sant Feliu de Llobregat and Kaligrafics, Contorno Urbano put out an international call to all artists to enter a mural contest. With close to 300 applications submitted […]
“Half A World Passed Me By”, In the Studio with David Walker
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Known well as a portrait painter of pensively wistful women across numerous expansive walls in cities around the globe in the last decade, Street Artist/muralist/fine artist David Walker is opening his scope of work to new things. Men for example. David Walker. Half A World Passed Me By. Lawrence Alkin Gallery. London.
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
Why do women roar for equality? It is incredulous that in 2017, this question still needs to be answered. But, after a recent personal encounter with a millennial young women, I realized the importance of reiterating to the masses of men and women why women roar for equality. Our next generations of women fully need to comprehend why they are partaking in events as The Women’s March.
This One's For The Girls
A new Off-Broadway Musical called ‘This One’s For The Girls’ is the impetus behind the question. Written by Dorothy Marcic, the show takes the audience through the decades of a woman — from the 1900s to present day — portraying the roles of women through drama and song. Forty of the Top 40 Hit songs about women are thread throughout the production including “Stand By Your Man,” “I Want to be Loved by You,” “Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend,” “I Will Follow Him,” “You Don’t Own Me,” “Respect,” ‘I Am Women” and “This Girl’s on Fire.”
Couple that with a backdrop of slides showing photographs of prominent women and men over the century who have helped to frame the woman’s role such as civil rights activist Rosa Parks, heart throbs Bobby Darrin and David Cassidy, women’s advocate Gloria Steinhem, Actresses Marilyn Monroe and Jane Fonda, musician Janice Joplin — the list is endless.
One of the scenes in the show depicts the original American teenage girls from the 60s, waiting anxiously by the old-fashioned phone for a boy to call. We’re talking pre-cell phones, internet, Facebook, Snapchat and the like. It was at that point, that the young millennial women turned to me asking if that really happened?
Incredulous, right? It was at that point that I realized how uninformed our next generation — especially of women — are on the hows and whys of the women’s movement. I am guestimating that most of the young girls and women who advocated and walked during this year’s Women’s March were clueless on how long the female sex has been striving for equality and the long history of why women are roaring now.
Ignorance Is Not Bliss When It Comes To Women’s Rights
“Every mom should be taking their daughter to see this show. And, wouldn’t it be fabulous if their sons would see it, too?” — Abbe Sparks, Socially Sparked News
As a mother to a millennial, I speak the truth when I say, “every mom should be taking their daughter to see this show. And, wouldn’t it be fabulous if their sons would see it, too?” I repeat, “ignorance is not bliss” but an eye opener to the evolution of a women’s role in society and the women’s movement.
I leave you with a quote I heard from Together For Girls‘ Daniela Ligiero cited from an ancient Chinese proverb.
“When Sleeping Women Wake, Mountains Move.”
Abbe is Socially Sparked ! Abbe Sparks, www.sociallysparkednews.com Tweet @sosparkednews & @asparks01
‘This One’s For The Girls’, written by Dorothy Marcic is playing open-ended at St. Luke’s Theatre Off-Broadway in New York City. Visit their website for ticket information. http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com
[Submitted by Abbe Sparks]
BSA Images Of The Week: 10.15.17. ONO’U-Raiatea Special
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Raitea, or more correctly, Ra’iātea, is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. A 50 minute plane ride from where we spent a week in Tahiti for the ONO’U Festival, the organizers treated us and some of the artists and documentarians to an additional few days on this island this […]
Miquel Wert Brings Awkward Family Dynamics From the Shadows in Barcelona
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Have you ever seen those awkward family photographs that some brilliant editors have periodically culled together and presented in books or websites? Which one is your favorite? Mom, Dad, and five siblings dressed in identical cowboy/cowgirl outfits in front of a sunset? The family of nudists gathered in the kitchen with dad holding a bowl […]
BSA Film Friday: 10.13.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Swoon: Fearless BSA Special Feature: Swoon: Fearless Using existing and new footage of Street Artist Swoon and selected interviews with people in her orbit, director Fredric King presents and hour long documentary that looks over two […]
ONO’U Tahiti – Murals from the Raiatea 2016 Edition
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This week BSA takes you to the French Polynesian Islands to see the new murals going up for this tropical island cultural festival called ONO’U Tahiti 2017. We’re happy to bring you the daily events and the insights as we discover them. As we were scouting around the island of Raiatea with Martha Cooper and […]
Tavar Zawacki: Being Fearless and “Metamorphosis” with Urban Spree
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Globally entire societies are undergoing metamorphoses at a quickening pace today – for a variety of reasons depending on who you talk to; The failures of capitalism and neoliberalism, the rapid development of technology, dwindling natural resources, a widening wealth gap, greater communications – all amidst a cross-cultural consciousness that is revealing truths at an […]
MurOne “Video Games” for Contorno Urbano 12+1 Project in Barcelona
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“I don’t have a job and a stable life, but painting and giving life to places that don’t have any is very gratifying,” says the graffiti/Street Artist about his wall completed for in September for the 12 + 1 project in Barcelona. He is not joking when he says he travels a lot to pursue […]
YZ Yseult “Empress” Brings More Strong Female Images to the Street
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It’s good to see YZ Seult continuing her portraiture of women of African heritage and to see such strong female warrior images being put out on the street for the “Graffeterie Festival” in Uzerche, France. Currently living on the Ivory Coast in West Africa, she calls the series “Empress”, presumably from her ongoing studies of […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 10.08.17 ONO’U Tahiti Special
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“Flying Omaomao Spirit of Tahiti Bird of my homeland Messenger of love from the night Messenger of peace from the light.” And so the summary of the genteel and warm Tahitian week we have just spent here for the ONO’U Festival. The words above from a local proverb that appear on the wall of Phat1 […]
ONO’U Tahiti 2017: “Personal Genesis” ONO’U 2017 Conférence, Dispatch 6
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“Personal Genesis’ ONO’U Tahiti 2017. Panel discussion. Tahiti, October 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo) ONO’U 2017 Conférence BSA was proud to host the first ONO’U Conference on Thursday night to bring alive a somewhat academic experience to the festival for a curious crowd of 175 in the showroom of a local car dealership. The theme […]
BSA Film Friday: 10.06.17 ONO’U Tahiti Special: Dispatch 5
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Marko93 & MrZL Video Mapping Collaboration 2. ONO’U Tahiti 2017 Fashion Show 3. Museum Preparation: ONO’U TAHITI 2017 BSA Special Feature: Marko93 & MrZL Video Mapping Collaboration In this work-in-progress video you get an idea of […]
Preparing for Museum Show at ONO’U Tahiti 2017, Dispatch 4
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This week BSA takes you to the French Polynesian Islands to see the new murals going up for this tropical island cultural festival called ONO’U Tahiti 2017. We’re happy to bring you the daily events and the insights as we discover them. There is excitement in the warm sunny air today as some of the […]
Bending Perceptions at ONO’U: ASTRO, OKUDA & Graffiti Couture: ONO’U TAHITI 2017: DISPATCH 3
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This week BSA takes you to the French Polynesian Islands to see the new murals going up for this tropical island cultural festival called ONO’U Tahiti 2017. We’re happy to bring you the daily events and the insights as we discover them. After some logistical challenges with the cherry picker, Astro has wasted no time […]
Astro, FinDAC, Video Mapping with MrZL and Marko93 at ONO’U Tahiti 2017: Dispatch 2
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This week BSA takes you to the French Polynesian Islands to see the new murals going up for this tropical island cultural festival called ONO’U Tahiti 2017. We’re happy to bring you the daily events and the insights as we discover them. Can you drive a stick shift pickup truck? Dude, we usually are biking […]
VHILS, LEIS, and Roosters: The Charm of ONO’U Tahiti 2017: Dispatch 1
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This week BSA takes you to the French Polynesian Islands to see the new murals going up for this tropical island cultural festival called ONO’U Tahiti 2017. We’re happy to bring you the daily events and the insights as we discover them. Closer to Auckland than Oakland and closer to heaven than Marge Simpson’s hair, […]
BSA Partners with ONO'U Tahiti 2017 and an Outstanding Roster of Talents |
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Vhils, Felipe Pantone, Findac, Fintan Magee, Okuda, Inkie, Rone, Astro, Kalouf, Soten, Marko93, Phat1/Lady Div, Mr ZL, R. Lardanchet, Abuz, Rival |
With multiple mural interventions by Street Artist from around the world on walls throughout the islands, ONO'U is defining its own tropical vision on the scene this year with a museum show, Street Art auction, live performances, live broadcasts, DJ Sets, a fashion show, video mapping, conference and talks. |
The islands of Tahiti and Raiatea will be the sites for brand new interventions by international Street Artists, graffiti artists, installation artists including: Vhils, Felipe Pantone, Findac, Fintan Magee, Okuda, Inkie, Rone, Astro, Kalouf, Soten, Marko93, Phat1/Lady Div, Mr ZL, R. Lardanchet, Abuz, Rival |
BSA Hosts "Le Street Art: d’hier à aujourd’hui" |
ARTIST TALK & CONFERENCE "Le Street Art: d’hier à aujourd’hui" Thursday, October 5th, 6 to 8 pm Steven P. Harrington, Editor in Chief, BSA moderates a panel of world-renowned artists and recognized experts of the international graffiti and street art scene. Featuring: Martha Cooper, SOTEN, Inkie, Charles Williams, RONE, and Selina Miles. |
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BSA Images Of The Week: 09.03.17 NUART 2017 Special
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Welcome to Sunday! This week we have a special edition of BSA Images of the Week; Dedicated to Nuart 2017. Each year Nuart challenges itself as much as it challenges you, unwilling to fall into the beckoning arms of the ever more bodacious and titilating Street Art Festival siren that increasingly works the thoroughfare […]...Read More
NUART 2017 Works In Progress and Nordic Gems By the Sea
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In Stavanger, Norway the Nuart Festival, in all its firey activist rebellious street-smart community-powered glory, is well underway; a chain-reaction of events and actions that ignite throughout the streets, in the gallery halls, and in neglected margins of this seaside town. In our 10th year bringing you the art and ideas from Nuart, BSA is […]
BSA Film Friday: 09.01.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. From Pakistan: The Writing on the Wall 2. “Wrong Weight” Sculpture by Górnicki and Chazme in Łódź 3. CUMA PROJECT: Walking with the Lenca. Stinkfish, Mazatl and Kill Joy 4. ONCE in Barcelona for 12 + […]
Powerful Voices at NUART 2017 : NUART PLUS Kicks Off
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“Steve & Jaime—We made it! Thank you so so much. You were huge. Every time you tweeted or posted, I would get a run of pledges. It means a lot. I promise to make a great film that the community will be proud of.” That was what film director Mark Nickolas told us when BSA […]
Xav Paints New Mural In Kiev and Meets Racist Resistance
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Spanish tattoo artist and muralist Javier Robledo aka Xav brought an enormous joyful boy to Kiev in Ukraine this summer, his largest mural ever at 70 meters high by 15 meters wide. He was pleased by his feat and gratified with the opportunity and result, as was Iryna Kanishcheva, co-founder of Art United Us who […]
ROA Paints a Memorial Tribute in BK : “Pet Bird RIP”
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“I could paint a regular parakeet – something pretty – but that’s not me and anyway Peter would f*cking like this!” says Belgian Street Artist ROA as he talks about his newest gift from the natural world to Brooklyn. A tribute to his friend who lived not far from this spot and who hit the […]
“Nau Bostik” Invigorates La Sagrera District in Barcelona
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Portraits, characters, surrealistic scenes and a range of illustration styles all reigned at the Nau Bostik festival in the La Sagrera neighborhood of Barcelona this summer. Organizing the painted component of the festival were folks from the Open Walls Conference and Difusor in a collaborative program to bring a new cultural infusion of life to […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 08.27.17
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Welcome to Sunday and the last free weekend of summer in New York before Labor Day. We had a fun tour yesterday with the two winners of the Magic City – Munich competition who won the opportunity to see the streets through our half cracked and mostly sunny perspective. The foot tour with Munich-based students […]
Street Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister by Axe Coulours in Barcelona
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Will the Starks sort out their differences? Will Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen get together? And what about his true parentage? Most germane perhaps:..will you survive the mother meeting of all meetings on tomorrow’s GOT season’s final f**kfest? Axe Colours. Tyrion Lannister (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena) On a Barcelona street wall “Game of Thrones” […]
BSA Film Friday: 08.25.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Fin DAC and ‘Shukumei’ on a Rooftop in San Francisco 2. Nevercrew in Satka 3. Dabs & Myla in L.A. 4. Miedo in Barcelona for 12 + 1 Project BSA Special Feature: Fin DAC on a Rooftop […]
TRUMP Art on News Stands Shockingly Pointed
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The Street Art has certainly been ahead of the pack this past year when it comes to drawing connections between Trump and fascism, racism, Nazis, and the KKK and we’ve been trying to document it as it appears weekly. We thought it was remarkable this week to see what common images are showing up on […]
Tavar Zawacki Unveils in Sacramento with First Mural
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Tavar Zawacki Unveils in Sacramento with First Mural
“Street Art In Sicilia” Tours You Through 31 Cities and 200 Artists
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"Street Art In Sicilia" Tours You Through 31 Cities and 200 Artists
Rendering Swastikas Inert on Berlin Walls
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The past couple of weeks (months, years) have seen the seeds of racism and fascism grow in western societies, taking to the streets as free-speech demonstrations, then menacing marches, then sometimes devolving into marauding nests of hate and physical violence. Graffiti has been a tool for communicating these sentiments more often than in recent years […]...Read More
Janice Dickinson walked the runway on March 14th at the Art Hearts Fashion in LA. Fashion show by MISTER TRIPLE X BY ERICK ROSETE
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Thursday September 15th THE JOURNEY FASHION FESTIVAL by Malena Belafonte made a New Statement during Fashion Week in New York... . THE JOURNEY FASHION FESTIVAL did press event at New York’s MERCEDES CLUB ...