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Marka27 mural for Street Wise Boulder 2020. Photo by Peter Kowalchuk
What we are looking for:
Street Wise Boulder is looking for mural proposals with a message. Our mission is to amplify amplify arts and culture, represent cultural diversity and encourage dialogue around social advocacy and resilience. Please be detailed in your proposals and include any links to causes, issues you hope to support with your mural.
We prioritize diversity across sectors and are looking for Artists from diverse backgrounds, identities, ages, ethnicities, genders, abilities and socio-economic status who are interested in creating a mural or installation in a festival setting that reflects life in 2021, explicitly- celebrating cultural diversity, reflections on current cultural and social issues, Innovation and technology, AR/VR enhancements, non-traditional mediums and artist collaborations.
Dates: September 6th -12th 2021
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Street Wise Boulder is an annual “ARTivism'' mural festival in Boulder, CO established in 2019 by Street Wise Arts. Street Wise Boulder aims to amplify arts and culture, represent cultural diversity and encourage dialogue around social advocacy and resilience through the installation of public art murals and related programming in the City of Boulder. We prioritize equality and representation among featured artists, across sectors of gender, identity, race, sexual preference and socioeconomic status.
Street Wise Boulder tripled from 13 murals in 2019 to an impressive 38 murals in 2020. We have cultivated an annual artistic event that is free, accessible, meaningful and impactful for the residents and workers of Boulder, while also driving tourism and creating a cultural destination year round.
"The artivist (artist + activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression—by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation." - M.K. Asante
“The words to describe aesthetic force suggest that it leaves us changed — stunned, dazzled, knocked out. It can quicken the pulse, make us gape, even gasp with astonishment. Its importance is its animating trait — not what it is, but what it does to those who behold it in all its forms. Its seeming lightness can make us forget that it has weight, force enough to bring about a self-correction, the acknowledgment of failure at the heart of justice — the moment when we reconcile our past with our intended future selves. Few experiences get us to this place more powerfully, with a tender push past the praetorian-guarded doors of reason and logic, than the emotive power of aesthetic force.” Dr. Sarah Lewis
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