Saturday, February 24, 2007

Arts & Culture Students Graffiti Tour

Arts & Culture Seminar Students take a Graffiti Tour of New York organized by Prof. Alisa Solomon.


The tour is sponsored by the non-profit Brooklyn organization, Groundswell Community Mural Project.


Mural artist Christopher Cardinale leads the tour.


Bronx native, Joshua, drives the van and adds commentary.


The tour begins in Washington Heights.



Not far from the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital is a multi-story Groundswell Mural.


The tour group enters into the Bronx














Chris and Josh take the group for a detour in Hunts Point, The Bronx.














Back in Manhattan, the groups goes to Keith Haring's,
"Crack is Wack"




In East Harlem, the group drives by examples of De La Vega's work


Just before sunset, the group arrives in Brooklyn to view two Groundswell Murals.





The tour ends at Groundswell polyptych just off of Fourth Avenue.

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