2017 - Fort Smith AR
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This is part three and the last post on Fort Smith, but it doesn't even cover half of the murals in this town and more have been added every year.
Bordalo Segundo was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1987. The artist creates his signature pieces with end-of-life materials to promote sustainability and increase social awareness among his generation of consumers, which he describes as wasteful.
His Opossum was one of two outdoor sculptures he created in 2016.
He had another mural which I showed in part one of this series.
D*FACE is a British (London) artist revered as one of most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation. He has been a leading figure in urbanart for well over a decade. Known for his subversive images, which involve a family of dysfunctional characters whose roles are to shock as well as entertain, his work challenges orthodox thinking and encourages the public to not just ‘see’ but to look at their surroundings.
The Choctaw Nation was the underwriter for this third D*FACE work in Fort Smith and the final one for the 2016 Unexpected art festival organized by 64.6 Downtown and curated by the international street art group JustKids.
The Oklahoma-based tribe also contributed historical context and authenticity for D*FACE in his design of the arrows.
Carving designs into the repurposed telephone poles, painting the grooves and attaching the three 120-pound fletchings to each of the 40-foot pieces of yellow pine from Mississippi was eased with a donated space downtown.
Pastel, part of the Jaz and Pastel team.
This last mural does not appear to be part of The Unexpected project. I couldn't find out anything about it.
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