The husband and wife team Steve and Dorota Coy founded the corporation Hygienic Dress League as an art project using branding and advertising as self-promotion. The corporation has as far as we know so far not manufacture or sold a thing – other than public art that is. Hygienic Dress League set out to make…
The first great street art hot spot I found after moving Cleveland a few years ago was Collinwood and Waterloo Art District. And there is something about a first love, or maybe it is just this special neighborhood, because I still really do enjoy coming here every change I get. I like the coffee at…
The airport in La Paz is like most other capital airports actually not located in the capital. It’s in El Alto. As if flying into the highest located capital in the world wasn’t enough. They of course had to place the airport in a flat spot and picked El Alto just above the city. The…
I went to Dubuque to visit my friend Rachel. Driving there I was thinking: here’s a part of the world that will never run out of corn. But happy I was, when I got there, not only to see my friend, but to realized that she lived in such a cool spot. Green and hilly…
Every summer, when I go to Denmark to visit my friends and family, I have The Forgotten Giants by Thomas Dambo on my ‘wanna go see list’. But my friends and family are great company, so I still haven’t made it. Therefore, when I realized that the giants had made it across the Atlantic and…
There are always many great reasons to visit Gordon Square on Cleveland’s West side. These days even more so, as you can right now see a number of great new murals being made. The neighborhood makeover is organized by Gordon Square Arts District , Land Studio and Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization and is sponsored…
Beautiful morning in Akron today. And I am so happy I had a chance to see the Laundromat mural before the afternoon rain rolled in. After getting around all the current downtown road construction barriers, you will find South Akron’s Laundromat building at 1035 South Main St. The mural was created in 2016 by the…
Run down buildings and vacant storefronts do no do much good for any down town area. But in Akron CuratedStorefront.org decided to do something about it. The non-profit is there to brighten up vacant urban spaces, create art exhibitions in empty windows and thereby create a more inviting down town and draw people into Akron….
A beautiful day to take photos in Detroit today. And I had the wonderful pleasure of seeing the lantern mural by Pat Perry at 2933 Gratiot Ave. near the Western Market for the first time today. I get so impressed every time I see one of his walls. And the lantern is no exception. Michigan…
Drove past the Cleveland classic “It’s up to us” mural today. So sad to see that someone decided to tag it. So happy to see that someone decided to do something about it. John Rivera-Resto’s neighborhood mural “It’s up to us” was designed and painted by local artist John Rivera-Resto in cooperation with the local…