LatinaLista — For the past three and a half years, Alexandra Henry has been documenting female graffiti and street artists to capture their collective voice and experiences within the global street art movement — a place where women have…
By Daniel Ronan PreservationNation “Morally, there needs to be a defense of public art,” says Hector Duarte, an accomplished Mexican-American muralist and painter sitting in his Chicago home and studio of fifteen years. Pilsen, his neighborhood, has been squarely…
By Andrea Valencia Mission Local Hussein Dawah, 63, didn’t have to look twice to know that there was a work of art on the wall outside his restaurant on 19th and Valencia. “This is not graffiti, this is art,”…
LatinaLista — Her real name is Sandra Fabara and this Ecuadorian transplant to New York City is more widely known by her street alias — Lady Pink. Lady Pink is considered one of the most famous graffiti artists of…
LatinaLista — When Jessica Pabón sees graffiti on the side of a building or on a New York City subway train or in a restroom stall, she doesn’t think of gang members or vandals. She wonders if a woman…
By Ivonne Jeannot Laens Global Press Institute In recent years, Buenos Aires has become a “graffiti-friendly” city, where artists have converted many old and peeling walls into massive outdoor murals. In some cases, the owners of houses and…
LatinaLista — Latino street artists are known for marching to a different beat where they mix culture with art in their colorful murals and abstract graffiti drawings. Many talented street artists from South America have routinely participated in art…
