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Beer Canvas: Collectible Street Art Glassware
UP speaks to Brooklyn-based collaborative craft beer brand Beer Canvas about how New York is the perfect place for artists and breweries to work together.
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Street Art Festival Brings Urban Art to Rural Estonian Towns
Fifteen muralists—from Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Scotland—descended on Antsla, Estonia on June 13-18, to ensure the town is brightly colored year-round, as part of the Rural Urban Art festival that takes place in a different Estonian town each year.
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Mahsyian: Streetwear for Lone Wolves
Mafi Wulf heads his streetwear brand Mahsyian as a lone wolf, but his goal for the fashion brand is a community. Mafi’s story shows that even lone wolves need a pack sometimes, and his unique style has helped draw together people of all kinds.
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Miranda Levingston
Miranda Levingston is a Brooklyn-based arts, culture and organizing reporter who has work in VICE News, The BK Reader, the Bushwick Daily, and NYU News. Levingston also moonlights as a street artist, but she’ll never tell you which one.
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Hiraku’s Gentle Giants
Brooklyn-based artist Hiraku uses her murals to spread positivity for all without it turning toxic and to use her kawaii-influenced characters to make people smile in the toughest of times.
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3rd Ethos and Creative Freedom in Bushwick
Meet the woman-about-town and gallerist Connie Byun, responsible for the Bushwick DIY gallery space, 3rd Ethos, which turns 5 this year.
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Vandal and Art in Ad Places Co-Founder Caroline Caldwell on Taking Up Space
“You always learn who you are by bumping up against boundaries, and finding out where you don’t fit” is how Brooklyn-based street artist Caroline Caldwell describes her work. Learn more about this hell-raising wall painter and the things that influence her unique art.
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Artists FoodBabySoul and Sizani Baloyi Promote DIY Street Cleaning Through New Program
Help a Bushwick street artist clean the streets, and win a print from a self-taught, up-and-coming South African printmaker.
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The CAN(vas) Art Drop Gives Recycling Clout
No Love City, a street-art-inspired clothing brand, is hosting its first online art show in a new series featuring artwork on spray paint cans.
