Treehugger recently highlighted the work of several artists working in a new medium- “eco-grafitti”. It’s cool stuff, read more here.

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This morning, as I grabbed my morning coffee, I noticed a familiar face on the front page of the NY Times Art Section. Denver’s Big Blue Bear was the cover girl (animal?) for an article about public art in the convention city.

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As part of my trip across New England last weekend, I made a quick coffee stop in Montpelier. There I noticed a fun temporary public art project- Sculptcycle 2008. The unique art partnership has brought the work of more than 20 Vermont Artists to the streets of the state capital. Check out some pictures I took of the sculptures on my trip.

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Steve Wood from Concrete Couch just sent me images of a recent public art project he completed with The Courthouse Center for the Arts in southern Rhode Island.

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Street Art is certainly turning a corner in little old Portland, Maine. For the past two years I have seen an emergence of street art and a consistently improving quality of work and content.

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Yesterday Bitsy (our new intern for Port City Studios) and I went over to watch Vivian Beer finish up the installation of her two public art pieces at Winslow Park. As co-chair of the Winslow Park Selection Committee with Jay York, I was part of the group that selected Vivian’s work for this location. It was a fun process, and it is particularly exciting to see the pieces in place.

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Not Our Problem Dude - Seen at a the Barrister’s Gallery in New Orleans. The story is that the NOPD is known to say, Not Our Problem Dude. The signs are cut out of sheet metal from junk cars and assembled into messages of all sorts. Artist Unknown

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This post was on the Wooster Collective a few weeks ago and I finally put 2 and 2 together. The graffiti art on the back of the train is an image of Elizabeth Cotton, original composer of the song “Freight Train” Watch the You Tube video!

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D&D created a sand sculpture on Fore Street a few weeks ago.

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Outside the Cincinnati Art Museum.

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Via: Wooster Collective  

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Right here in our own little city of Portland- in fact, right here on my very own street near our new studio- I spotted my very first knitfiti. I had heard of knitfiti before, and seen pictures, I’d even flirted with the idea of making some (I have some old scarf projects I never finished [...]

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We’ve posted about lovely urban “street furniture” before– mostly in reference to the Steel Yard, where Peter helped start a custom urban furniture business that employs local artists. But these streetlamps are taking it to the next level.
Artist and lighting designer Robert Rausch designed these street lamps for the new urbanist development of Serenbe in [...]

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Four crews swept Baltimore streets from all compass directions last time we were in town. We noticed the giant broom sculpture earlier in the day and caught up with some sweeper after our visit the Map Through Time And Space show at the Walters Art Museum. The broom sculpture turned out the be a giant [...]

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I always seem to find a new hidden gem while driving through Baltimore, probably because I am usually a passenger. The City is sprinkled with spray paint graffiti, stickers, stencils, vacant storefront paintings, and temporary public art. The stencils in this post remind me of Chris Stain. Chris has images posted on his blog of [...]

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Via: The Wooster Collective - Skullphone hacked 10 L.A. billboards last week owned by clear channel. He placed his Skullphone image into the ad-rotation and the images are super. Check out more images here
Image Source: Supertouch

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For the last eight years, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York has held a competition to transform their outdoor courtyard into a party and event space. In past years, winning entries have evoked beaches and huge blooming flowers. This is the first year that their courtyard will be used to grow vegetables. The [...]

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Congressman Tom Allen recently emailed his list to promote what he believes is an insufficient and flawed Federal Budget. He struck out against the Bush Administration and in particular the Energy Policy that is certainly a step backwards for the nation. I am sure you fully aware of its faults but here is an excerpt [...]

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This was posted in honor of Bush’s last State of the Union Address. For those of you  that don’t read HTML the / = end.
Via: Madison Street Art Collection on Flickr

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