100en1diaTijuana: movimento mundial
Tijuana va a participar en un movimento mundial. 7 de junio, 2014 ¡No faltes!
observing san diego-tijuana urban life Post Tagged with: "Graffiti"
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Tijuana participativa: Tijuana will join in worldwide movement of 100 en 1 día
“This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.” –Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Indeed, as Jane Jacobs argued in 1961, what makes a city great is the […]
Tijuana Urban Art
HEM Crew celebrates 24 years on the streets of Tijuana/San Diego
Tucked inside a parking lot off Calle Primera in Tijuana’s Zona Norte, a mural now covers what was once a blank wall. This past week, members of the graffiti crew HEM (Hecho en Mexico or “Made in Mexico”) marked a milestone together–twenty-four years of bombing the streets and alleys of […]
Tijuana Urban Art
Tijuana Alley Art at VISUAL in San Diego’s Normal Heights
March 9, 2013 SATURDAY NIGHT 6-10 PM VISUAL Shop 3524 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116 With wheatpaste art & paintings by Tijuana artists: 1102, Panca, and Spel Teodora Craft beer by Francisco J. Garcia of Studio 2287, Tijuana The concept of my exhibition is to explore—through my photos— “that […]
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This graffiti must be permitted
Last winter, Jay Porter of the Linkery was issued a citation by the City of San Diego’s neighborhood code compliance office for maintaining graffiti on a public wall on their property. The only problem–the offending piece was a commissioned, large-scale work. Not illegal. In fact, Jay Porter commissions artists to […]
Tijuana Urban Art
Few and Far
Damn! Just wait until you see the amazing work these women painted on my wall!!! The graffiti collective Few and Far Women.com finished up their west coast tour yesterday at my house in Colonia Lindavista, Tijuana. The ten artists painted for one week making stops in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los […]
Tijuana Colonias
Arte urbano y rehabilitación: activating Tijuana’s forgotten spaces
In Tijuana, urban art is everywhere, and artists find their most important contributions lie in the way their work can reactivate spaces that lie far beyond the official “front stage” of tidy commerce in the city. As the urban theorist Michel de Certeau argued in The Practice of Everyday Life, […]
Tijuana Urban Art
Local urban artist El Norteño wins state award
This past week, on Monday, Dec 12, local Tijuana urban artist Alonso Delgadillo, who paints under the name of El Norteño, was awarded the Premio Estatal de la Juventud de Baja California 2011, giving an official stamp of approval to the life’s work and trajectory of this local artist whose most […]
Tijuana Urban Art
C’est la Saison du Vin by urban artist Alfredo Gutierrez
In August, I was privileged to join Alfredo Libre Gutierrez in Ensenada to document a mural project at CEARTE, Ensenada Center for the Arts. Gutierrez was commissioned by the ICBC (Instituto Cultural de Baja California, Ensenada) to paint a mural. It was refreshing, he told me, to get an open commission and have control over […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day / Tijuana Urban Art
Graff on Sexta, Tijuana Day 27
Collaborative piece in estacionamiento on Sexta
