Santiago Villegas – UP MAGAZINE

Artists Protest in Washington Square Park Against NYPD Crackdown

On Sunday, July 30, a few dozen artists and community members gathered by the park’s fountain to demand an end to the over-policing and criminalization of street artists and performers.

Infographic: Anatomy of a New York Mailbox

A visual exploration of the different stories that brought sticker artists from all over the world together on a USPS mailbox on a New York street corner.

Get Lost in the City with Santiago Villegas

When multimedia artist Santiago Villeges moved to New York from Colombia, he found that he identified with the rat. Now the minuscule, shiny rat stickers that are the protagonists of his 2020 art movement “Lost in the City” adorn poles across downtown Manhattan.