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Miami is awash in color in every way possible. Fonts, signage, street art, murals and outdoor exhibitions blast your face from every angle. The Wynwood Arts District and the Design District are dressed up in jazzy clothes every December in preparation for Art Basel Miami Beach. You can tell Basel is coming when street artists are present around-the-clock, spray can in hand, the results are the stunning and sometimes barftastic bonkers street murals you will see below. I really love it. Besides the colors and the chaotic feeling that I get being surrounded by so many colors, the thing I adore the most about the whole situation is the massive scale. Each painting is huge, some are whole warehouses, some are just the sides of huge warehouses, some are several stories high. It rules! I walked and drove around The Adventure School Miami HQ neighborhood, Wynwood, to take a few photos to share here on the adventure blog. After an hour or two I already had over 70 photos, only the tip of the coloriffic iceberg. As I investigated the neighborhood, my guide and boyfriend of adventure, Bert, told me what he knew; mainly that many of the murals are organized by groups. One in particular focusing on a concentrated epicenter of Wynwood called Primary Flight explain that they are creating the World’s Largest Street Mural Installation. They have a map. I took some pics in Wynwood Walls, curated by now-defunct Deitch Projects and saw lots of other folks there taking pictures too. You can even take a biking graffiti tour with local guides, Street Art Cycles. Art it up!
I will be posting these in no particular order.
I could go on forever, but I won’t, you will just have to visit Miami for yourself. Stay tuned for more Dispatches from Miami: Taking it to the Streets; Design District, Little Haiti, Downtown and South Beach, all to come in the next few weeks. Keep your blogdar locked here: The Adventure School Blog. Leave a Reply |
