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Impermanent Art’s 2022 year in review: ten favorite photos taken on our travels this year. 

1. Milwaukee: ‘The Unsung Hero’ by Case, towering over downtown Milwaukee since 2020. 

2. Richmond: ‘’Moonshine’ by Etam Cru for the 2013 edition of the Richmond Mural Project.

3. Lynn, MA: ‘The Resident’ by Smug for the 2019 edition of Beyond Walls.

4. Detroit: work by Askew One for the 2015 edition of Murals in the Market.

5. Richmond: ‘Float’ by James Bullough for the 2015 edition of the Richmond Mural Project. 

6. Austin: ‘The Beauty of Liberty and Equality’ - a 12-story collaboration by Sandra Chevrier and Shepard Fairey towering over Congress Ave since 2020.

7. Nashville: ‘The Nations of Nashville’ by Guido Van Helten for the 2017 edition of Nashville Walls. A portrait of then-91 year old Lee Estes who has been living in the neighborhood since the 1920s, a symbol of the rapidly-gentrifying area’s history. The two children on the side of the silo represent the area’s future. 

8. Jackson, MI: Alice Cooper portrait by Jeks for this year’s edition of Bright Walls. 

9. Detroit: ‘Guardians of the Neighborhood’ by Pat Perry for the 2017 edition of Murals In The Market.

10. Worcester, MA: Five8 x Earth Crusher collab for the 2017 edition of Pow Wow! Worcester.

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I learned about Roberto Clemente while growing up in the 🇻🇮 Virgin Islands, but my knowledge of him grew when the family moved to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 in 1978.

Sadly, I never got to see him play, but needless to say, he was a great person that cared about people and used his talents and gifts to help others.

Clemente would have been 87-years-old on August 18th.

Mad ❤️ to Brian Lewis aka JEKS for painting this amazing mural in Great Brook Valley neighbor located in Worcester, MA.

Not only is it beautiful, but I’m confident that the residents love it and people from all over the world will visit Great Brook Valley just to see it!

Thank you Pow Wow Worcester and the great people that organize the annual festival!

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“Mooncake”

Insane51 for POW WOW Worcester

Massachusetts 2018

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POW! WOW! WORCESTER! 2017 Mural Recap.

All photos by / courtesy of Daniel Weintraub.

Between August 25th and September 3rd, 2017 the city of Worcester, Massachusetts was treated to POW! WOW!, an international mural festival that seeks to enliven communities through large scale murals, artist talks, exhibitions, concerts and more.

POW! WOW! Worcester’s 2017 line-up included 50 artists from around the world: AIIK (123 Klan), Alex Hayes, Apexer, Avo, Becky Cloonan, Big Teeff, Brian Butler, Caratoes, Christopher Konecki, CLEO (123 Klan), CrashOne, Dasic Fernandez, Denial, Drew Merritt, Eamon Gillen, Earth Crusher, Ferdinand, Five 8, Ghostbeard, Greg Mike, Ivan Roque, Joe Iurato, Josie Morway, JPO, Julia Yubaba, Kai Griffiths, Kelly Towles, Key Detail, Keya Tama, Kimchi Juice, Klor (123 Klan), Kristin Farr, Lucas Aoki, Michal Maka, Nicky Davis, Nosego, Pamela Stolz, Patch Whisky, Pichi, Ricardo Gonzalez, Ryan Gardell, Scien (123 Klan), Scott Boilard, Scott Listfield, Scott Walker, The Soph, Stash and Tom Bob.

“I am so proud of the transformational impact POW WOW! Worcester has had on our city. For the ten days of POW WOW Worcester we were also able to bring people together to celebrate different kinds of art and culture. Moving forward, the murals, including more than 14 murals covering nearly every wall at one school, will have a lasting impact on Worcester and its residents,” said POW WOW! Worcester Director Jessica Walsh. “I am so grateful to members of the community who came out to be a part of this, the artists who have left a piece of themselves in the city, as well as our sponsors who recognized the importance of public art and everyone who worked so hard to make this a reality.”

Continue below to see hundreds of incredible photographs of the artists at work and their completed murals, you can also check out Worcester’s website for the mural locations and more:

Thank you Daniel!

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Holy crap, what a week! Here's some pics of the *finished* mural that Josie Morway and I painted at the Worcester Art Museum as part of this year's POW WOW Worcester mural festival. This was my first ever mural and it was definitely a struggle at times, but big thanks to Josie for being a fantastic collaborator and partner in crime. We split the wall in half and worked side by side all week, so at any given point hopefully only one of us was kind of freaking out. Huge thanks to everyone at the Worcester Art Museum, who couldn't have been nicer, and to all the AMAZING artists who were in town for POW! WOW! this week. I made a lot of new friends and met a lot of artists I've long admired. If you're in the area, I HIGHLY recommend you check out all of the murals. Thanks, too to Halopigg for the awesome pics. And while I definitely need a break for my poor knees, I'd love to do another one of these sometime soon. Hopefully next time the learning curve won't be as steep 😮.

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Had an awesome time painting with old friends and new at Secret Walls over the weekend!

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Recap from Secret Walls x Pow! Wow! Worcester on August 26th. 2017 in Worcester.. 

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Mural by Matt Gondek at the Electric Haze (Worcester MA)

(image via Pow Wow Worcester!)

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HERMES AND PERSEUS

by PichiAvo

Aided by his winged sandals Hermes was able to move between the worlds of the gods and mortals and served as the emissary and messenger of the Greek gods. When Perseus was given the quest to bring Polydectes the head of Medusa he armed himself with several gifts from the gods and borrowed Hermes's sandals enabling him to fly. In 2017 Spanish art duo PichiAvo—masters at merging classical sculpture and contemporary urban art—were in Worcester, MA for the annual Pow!Wow! festival and painted this depiction of Perseus wearing Hermes' sandals. This mural is one of several painted by festival participants at the Sever Street Apartments.  @pichiavo/  @powwowworcester/

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Street Artist: Insane 51

Insane51 is a Greek mural artist based in Athens. This double exposure 3D (600sqm) wall was created for POW WOW Worcester. 

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Postmodern Art-Making

1. Escaping the Confines of Museums 

POW! WOW! WORCESTER 

THUMBS, 2019

2. Collapsing Boundaries Between ¨High¨ and ¨Low¨

Deconstructed Mouse Vinyl Figure

Matt Gondek, 2020

3. Rejecting Originality

It is lll-1

Haim Steinbach, 2008

4. Jouissance

The Old Man’s Boat

Eric Fischl, 1982

5. Working Collaboratively

Olympic Rings

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2012

6. Appropriating

L.H.O.O.Q.

Marcel Duchamp, 1919

7. Stimulating

Untitled, Summer (Summer Rain) from the series Beneath the Roses.

Gregory Crewdson, 2004

8. Hybridizing

The Cloisters/Birth of Venus

Masami Teraoka, 2002

9- Mixing Media

Buffalo II 

Christie's Images, 1964

10. Layering

SOMETHING NEW | UN AIR DE CHANGEMENT

Sandra Chevrier MARCH 2, 2019

11. Mixing codes

FOREVER FREE (HOWTA CONKA DA FOWL WORLD / CHILL WHILE YOU SPILL)

MICHAEL RAY CHARLES, 1962

12. Recontextualizing

Guarded View

Fred Wilson, 1991

13. Confronting the Gaze

Untitled #582

Cindy Sherman, 2016

14. Facing the Abject

LOK Kunsthaus

Paul McCarthy 2016

15. Constructing Identities

Read My Lips (boys)

Gran Fury 1988

16. Using Narratives

Ten Breaths: Congress of Wits Study

Eric Fischl, 2007

17. Creating Metaphors

Autorretrato con Pelo Corto

Frida Kahlo, 1940

18. Irony, Parody, and Dissonance

Shame-Man

James Luna, 1992

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Work by Czr Prz for the 2019 edition of Pow Wow! Worcester.

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@Pichiavo in Worcester, MA for Pow Wow

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POW! WOW! Korea x Sticky Monster Labs.

POW! WOW! Korea and Sticky Monster Labs recently teamed up with 15 contemporary artists to create absolutely wonderful custom figures.

Participating artists: Amy Sol, Balloonski, GR1, Jaebum Joo,  Jasper Wong, Jodae, Kimchi Juice, Novo, Rostarr, Semitrain, Sixcoin, So Youn Lee, Spenser Little, Suitman and Voeun.

POW! WOW! Korea is a week-long public art and music event that takes place in Seoul and other parts of South Korea and is part of the globally recognized POW! WOW! Worldwide series of street art events, which since 2010 has brought murals and other forms of art and music to public environment in Hawaii, Long Beach (CA), Washington D.C., San Jose, Worcester, Taiwan, Netherlands, Guam, Nepal, Israel, Italy, Japan and Korea. The core of their mission is to bring art, music and culture to public spaces while beautifying the community.

Sticky Monster Lab is a multidisciplinary creative studio founded in 2007. They produce short animations that contain everyday stories in the monster world by reflecting our own reality. The studio has successfully collaborated with global corporations such as CJ, Daewoo Engineering and Construction, Nike, Nissan, among others. At first glance, the monster character appears to look cute but after further observation the figure shows a dark side of reality.

Take a look at all the figures here.

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Mural by Spencer Keeton Cunningham in Worcester, Massachusetts for POW! WOW! Worcester 2016. https://t.co/5E0xhTfbIt https://t.co/6LhFiZ28fO

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@Pichiavo in Worcester, MA for Pow Wow