The Artist Enshrining a Town's People in Murals
Drive around the North End of Wichita, Kansas, and you’ll find an explosion of color. It’s the work of Horizontes, a community project that fuses act...
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Bringing Color to the Street With the Graffiti Shaman
Driving the Toyota Camry through the streets of Brooklyn, New York, you can’t miss the visual kaleidoscope of colors, imagery and paint that cover m...
These Murals Were Grown from Rice
In the village of Inakadate, Japan, elaborate expanses of “rice paddy art” grace the surrounding landscape. Looking for a way to boost tourism and con...
More Than Murals: The Artist Keeping Japan's Bathhouse Art Alive
Sentos are public bathhouses with a long and rich history in Japanese culture. Traditionally, tranquil, hand-painted murals adorned the walls of each...
Paint the Town Peaceful: The Mural That Stopped Violence
In Mexico, the Ministry of the Interior launched an art project as a way of promoting peace in Las Palmitas, Pachuca, a city that has been plagued by...
Art at Altitude: Snow Murals in the Mountains
Simon Beck specializes in making ornate snow murals with just his snowshoes. The murals take at least an entire day to complete, and in order to...
Building the World’s Largest Open-Air Museum
What were once abandoned silos are now covered in colorful murals. The towering masterpieces dot the landscape of the Spanish province of Ciudad Real....
This Work of Art Changes With Temperature
Sometimes art emerges from the most unexpected pairings. Lyle Small—a chemist and a self-described nerd— is president of Chromatic Technologies, a c...
Five Stories About Fabulous Japan
In this reel, discover the vibrancy of Japan—from artful fake food and murals grown from rice to Chicano lowrider culture imported from California....
This Art Is a Big Deal
In this reel, meet artists taking their craft to the extreme—like a village growing rice into murals and a crocheter covering the world in love and y...
The Artist Weaving the World Together
Crochet is not generally viewed as a fine art, nor is it commonly used as a vehicle for social change. But New York-based artist Agata Oleksiak (aka...
Snow Art? Snow Problem!
Let's go walking in a winter wonderland, shall we? In this reel, we join an artist making magnificent murals on snow-capped peaks, build frozen...
