Hands-On Project in Omeka
25 Original Photos
Art present in Bushwick Public Spaces
“Art in Public Spaces” includes many localized genres
Many Community Murals
Series based on the Poem “Sleepless City” Cuidad Sin Sueño by Federico Garcia Lorca
Mural 1
While Photographing I ran into a person repairing the Mural
Jane Weisman, Director of Artmakers NYC
Repairs left “ArtThirsty” Intact
Artmakers NYC Attribution Wall
Vandalized with white-out
Signature of Artist: Optimo
“Thanks for the Wall”
Vandalized Names were whited out; Artists contacted Artmakers
Credits Listing for Community Mural
VR _ Heavily Credited, Usually findable online, Community Murals are very thorough with publicly attributing information able to be catalogued.
Graffitti is a Different story.
It is included in the scope of this project as a territorial art form which essentially gave the public space foundations for street Art and Community Murals. Also for Facebook.
Here, I want to draw Attention to : HARLEM
Across the street, another HARLEM
How do we catalogue Graffiti for which the only information left to us is ultimately right here?
Titles “HARLEM” was funny in Omeka.
+Medium
+Style
+PhotoDocumentation
+ Geotagging – can be embedded
HARLEM - Iterations of a Street Artist’s Work
On a nearby Street, the placement of HARLEM’s works is another feature necessitating photodocumentation – placement or where the work is “up” significant
HARLEM is also in Manhattan, right there!
Mixing Caricature and Tagging
Story of James outside the Wyckoff Starr
Including the year for some tags is helpful
I would have walked right past this one if it weren’t for James indicating the artist’s prominence.
False is from North Dakota, and was up in a few places around the city.
Can add stylistic features in descriptions aiding in the historical trending of the movements.
You see them everywhere!
Wideshots of where art is collected together spoke to the community of this group.
Shok.1 of Bushwick Collective
Permission to use Walls
Authorship is useful
Love when people take photos of the Art
Precedents
Maybe or maybe Not
Street Art as a reclaiming of public space is important to document
as a record of that dynamic, that work.
Another Bushwick Collective Piece
Large Scale
Authorship and Collective Important
Halsey Street Murals, all along the side of an industrial Block
Declarations of Community
Authorship
Interaction between Artists is able to be documented
“Documentary Photographic Style” and Street Art
Documenting Street Art – Other Initiatives
Different initiatives for Community Murals, Memorial Murals, Street Art, Graffiti, and Tags / bombs – the last are often undocumented anywhere.
