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Post Tagged with: "Tijuana Colonias"

Tijuana Colonias / Tijuana Photo of the Day

Spectacular skaters at Mariano Matamoros

by Jill Holslin × on March 5, 2014 at 12:07 am × 0 comments

Ultra hip teen skater flies off a ramp and nails the landing at the Vivamos la Calle festival in Tijuana’s Colonia Mariano Matamoros.

Tijuana Urban Art

Urban art in progress

by Jill Holslin × on March 2, 2014 at 1:57 pm × 0 comments

Garzón Masabó, Professor of Art at University Autonoma of Baja California, guides young Tijuana urban artist Packo Soria as he moves through the stages to create a stencil. Stenciling draws its appearl from its modern roots in commercial design and signage. The form lends itself to collage, mashups, and activist […]

Tijuana Photo of the Day

¡Rifa las Torres!

by Jill Holslin × on March 2, 2014 at 1:33 pm × 0 comments

Teens ride their horses around Colonia Las Torres located in the eastern Tijuana zone of Granjas Familiares.

Tijuana Colonias

Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana

by Jill Holslin × on April 4, 2013 at 12:10 am × 2 comments

In their first exhibition of this work in Tijuana in April of 2013, photographers Anthony Paul Marchetti and Laura Migliorino continue in the tradition of a number of Tijuana and San Diego artists who have focused on the innovative methods of “construction by necessity” in Tijuana’s colonias. This new show […]

Tijuana Urban Art

Few and Far

by Jill Holslin × on April 24, 2012 at 9:27 am × 1 comment

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 […]

Border Art

‘Architects by Force’: Border photographer Maria Teresa Fernandez celebrates the inventiveness of the colonia

by Jill Holslin × on October 19, 2011 at 11:14 pm × 0 comments

In the poorest colonias along the border in Tijuana, everywhere there are traces of ingenuity and the sparks of creativity born of necessity.  This is the vision Maria Teresa Fernandez brings us in her new show at Art Produce Gallery on University Avenue in North Park. “Architects by Force” documents […]