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Street Painting for kids + Workshops + More
Showing posts with label Bay Gates Project. Show all posts
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NEW TIMES BEST ART WALK: Boynton Beach Art District
NEW TIMES BEST OF LIST 2013
ActivistArtistA's Boynton Beach Art District Art Walk
Best of Broward / Palm Beach® 2013
Best Art Walk - 2013
For Vendor Opportunities Contact:
ActivistArtistA Gallery
422 West Industrial Ave.
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
786-521-1199
Contact: Rolando Chang Barrero
ActivistArtistA Art Walk
Less than two years ago, the strip of warehouses off of Boynton Beach's Industrial Avenue, just a block west of I-95, was home to old machine parts, drab façades, and a couple of high-end galleries that have been around since the '80s. Now, it's nearly all filled with art. Things began to turn around for the area when artist and gallery owner Rolando Chang Barrero moved up from South Beach, turning his studio into a gallery and taking the reins on the newly developing Boynton Beach Arts District. With a crew of like-minded arts advocates including Lea Vendetta, Andrew Ackerman, Alexia Hemingway, and Chan Shepard of the KeroWACKED Crew, a growing collection of projects meant to infuse and inspire the area with art, and new galleries popping up like weeds, it's no surprise a monthly art walk brings in the community. Apart from spearheading the Bay Gates Project, which assigns a different artist to paint a warehouse gate each month, Barrero's ActivistArtistA gallery also sponsors the Boynton Beach Arts District Art Walk. Visitors can expect to see open galleries and studio spaces, open-jam musical performances, food trucks, raffles, and lots more arts-fueled surprises on the fourth Thursday of each month.
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The Boynton Beach Art District
404-422 West Industrial Ave.
Boynton Beach, Florida
404-422 West Industrial Ave.
Boynton Beach, Florida
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Art In Public Places! Video and Commission Audio
I love Boynton Beach!
Thank you for the shout out on the video!
I would bring to mind that what we do, we do together, with unyielding sense of community and spirit!
Many thanks to all my artist friends and supporters for making a dream a reality!
ActivistArtistA Gallery, Bay Gates, and Studio has established itself in Boynton Beach as a result of a shared vision and selflessness of the folks who continue to support The Boynton Beach Art District!
If you would like to participate as a sponsor please contact:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
KeroWACKED by NEW TIMES
Photo Courtesy of ActivistArtistA's Bay Gates Project
KeroWACKED: an Homage to Jack at ActivistArtistA; Kerouac Would Have Approved
Categories: Nightlife
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| Monica McGivern |
Sunday, February 25, 2012
Trying to describe the energy that permeates inside ActivistArtistA, a decently seized yet petite art enclave in Boynton Beach, proves tough, mostly because describing a vibe always is.
For the pagans and Buddhists, they feel refreshed just by feeling the wind. Others have to be dunked into water or sit in a box to feel cleansed of their sins. But thenew art walk up at the District is managing to pull this righteous cleansing off all by itself. All you have to do is walk inside the place.
Once inside the confines, the familial ties between the artists and the connectedness of this community wakes up your spirit.
This Sunday, ActivistArtistA hosted the "KeroWACKED: A Homage to Jack" festival that ran all day and had everything, like car-painting, craft-selling, live painting, live music from both bands and solo artists, and even live DJs -- all this went on at the same time. You couldn't turn and not be immersed in something artistically related.
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| Monica McGivern |
| Why not paint a car? |
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| Monica McGivern |
| The short-haired blond is artist Krist Delgado. She created a Kerouac-themed piece. |
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| Mickie Centrone |
| And I bought it. (Artist: Krist Delgado) |
Now, many might not know who Jack Kerouac is. He was a Beat Generation writer, most famous for his book On the Road. He loved jazz and beatnik poetry (just try to recite a poem in the style of a jazz beat). He loved socializing, drinking with friends, and talking about human emotions.
Although none of the artwork, besides a piece or two, was Kerouac-themed, more important, this festival dedicated to Kerouac captured his spirit. And he's a man to love.
Although none of the artwork, besides a piece or two, was Kerouac-themed, more important, this festival dedicated to Kerouac captured his spirit. And he's a man to love.
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| Monica McGivern |
| The awesome van. |
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| Monica McGivern |
| Rolando Chang Barrero, the man whose spirit is changing the tip-top of South Florida. Watch out, this thing is growing. |
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| Monica McGivern |
| What the studios look like. |
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| By Monica McGivern |
| Inside her studio, the Inkmaster star Lea Vendetta. She creates paintings as well as tattoos. (Note: the tatts are done at the shop, A Stroke of Genius Tattoos.) |
Outside the studios, the Bay Gates Project is well under way. Beautiful graffiti now lingers across many walls. An artist will paint each gate (the "door" to the studio), and then after a year, a new artist will get that movable barrier. Same goes for the walls.
For more pix, check out the slide show Monica McGivern did for us.
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| Monica McGivern |
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| Monica McGivern |
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| Monica McGivern |
| One friend asked me if I had seen the "Voodoo" plants. I had not, and then he led me to this greenery treasure. |
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