RE-FRESH THE STREETS! 8.9.09

YOUNITY PRESENTS: RE-FRESH THE STREETS!

(New York, NY) – On August 9, 2009 from 1 p.m.-6 p.m. the women of YOUNITY Arts will host RE-FRESH THE STREETS!, a live street art production to kick off the festivities for the upcoming FRESHER Exhibit in the fall of 2009. A massive sixty-two feet long mural will be painted on an outdoor wall space. Additionally, the art is an effort to beautify the community with graffiti art and street styles that mirror the eco-friendly theme of the FRESHER Exhibit. The collaborative effort will be the artistic event of the summer, displaying the flagrant artistic talent of the female collective and participating artistic youth.

As seen in Marie Claire’s summer 2009 August Calendar, Sponsored by the Motorola Sweepstakes.

Sunday, August 9th 2009
1pm to 6pm.
South 5th Street & Bedford
Take L train to Bedford.
www.wmcjazz.org
please visit: www.myspace.com/younityspace
www.theyounity.com

THE YOUNG WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL – TOOFLY WORKSHOP

WOW lot’s to catch up on. NYC is just crazy in the summer lot’s of stuff going on….okay so we’ll set it off with my kids mural workshop that went down this past week…

BIG CITY WALLS – Younity + Toofly Street Art Mural Project with The Women’s Leadership school was a huge success! The workshop kicked off at our favorite summer spot THE SECRET GARDEN in Bushwick. Weather was loving us! For the past 3 days a group of 30+ young women got a chance to experience the stages of producing a collaborative aerosol mural project with a NATURE theme reflective of what we created at the Secret Garden. It was one of my first official street art mural projects with a large youth group and it went smooooooooth as pie. WHEW! I can def get the hang of this every summer, kids rock!!!

Day 1 – Introduction, Project Details, Concept, Sketches, and a walk through the Secret Garden for some inspiration. SEE THE REST OF THE PHOTOS BELOW >>>

FRESHER T’S!!!

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Linked up with our hommies from Destroy & Rebuild to help us get the Younity FRESHER T’s printed this time around. Shout out to Mike for printing the shirts we love them!!!

GUYS FRESHER T

WOMEN’S FRESHER T

Coming soon! SAVE THE DATE GET YOURS at thsi year’s Younity NYC URBAN ARTS MARKET in the lower East Side AUGUST 29th! Hooked up by our hommie Yvey.

AFRO PUNK FESTIVAL

This year’s Afro Punk Festival was DOPE. The wall set-up was tight, and the artist line up was on point. Mad characters! Felt right at home…

Afro Punk Festival, JULY 4, 2009.

12 noon…

Space was transformed into a pop-up skate park: Skaters, Half Pipes, Decks, Live Music, etc.

My boy Cekiz!!! Can’t wait to rock a wall together;)

Rimix loved his line work…

AM

SHAUN from Trust Your Struggle Collective. Thank you for all your hard work!

Crystal Clarity

New steez, on my warrior shit…

Good job TEAM!

Dope pic by: thashadow06

Shout out to RASU from coup d’etat crew for hooking us up all day! Thank You;)

THE SECRET GARDEN

The Secret Garden. A YOUNITY + BIG CITY WALLS collaboration with female aerosol artists from NYC. Coming together to “RE-FRESH” the streets…

Rocking productions with 10+ artists is not always easy. Having a sketch helps. Not everything can go according to plan, but if you leave enough room to improvise you get pretty close…

THE SECRET GARDEN. J train to Gates ave. Corner of Linden and Broadway, Bushwick Brooklyn.

Great spot to chill, paint, play dominos, BBQ, and grow your own vegetables & fruits! There’s a farmers market every Wednesday if you want to check it out. Shout out to the folks who run this place and JOSEPH for keeping it beautiful for the community.

Big hug to Erotica for hooking us up with the ill grill meals! & for bringing by the whole fam. What else can be more fun than running around, playing hide and go seek, dancing, laughing, jumping, and climbing stuff?  WHAT FUN! they will remember for a long long time.

Day 1. Pieces were sketched in and set. On the hunt of colors necessary for Day-2 & 3 possibly 4..GREEN, GREEN, AND MORE GREEN!!!

THE COLOR GREEN. The color of nature, fertility, life. Grass green is the most restful color. Green symbolizes self-respect and well being. Green is the color of balance. It also means learning, growth and harmony.

GREEN ENERGY contains the powerful energies of nature, growth, desire to expand or increase. Balance and a sense of order are found in the color green. Change and transformation is necessary for growth, and so this ability to sustain changes is also a part of the energy of green

Collabo between Lady K Fever and Toofly. Feeling RE-FRESHED yet? Flow like water and you’ll see what I mean.

Water unceasingly changes shapes and transforms itself. It is thus a model out of which everything can be born. It is also a source of purification. Purification for the individual beings but also for the whole of mankind. The Flood is a founding episode in numerous civilisations. Among Australia’s Aborigenes, a giant frog is said to have swallowed the Earth’s water to release it only when the other animals, dying with thirst, made it burst out laughing. The Flood in a re-creation of the world. One emerges from water in order to be reborn.

DIVA sweetest person ever!

MADGE def incorporated “THE SECRET” up in here! The key to our hearts “LOVE” and nothing else…

JES. Watch out for TOUGH LOVE NYC! Love these VENUS FLY TRAPS great color…

EROTICA. Yeo this WOMAN right here has got to be the ill#1 graffiti mom. She hella looked out for all of us and kept our bellies full. What a MOM! Got the whole fam in her piece too that’s LOVE. Blessing to you hommie and your beautiful family!

AM, K-STAR collabo. Damn AM wen’t mad high on this one what’s that 15feet? 20? word. K-STAR repping hard! Thanks for the beers ladies they were nice and cold kept us on a nice buzz while we worked;) Ya know how to party!

TADA!!!!!!!!!! thanks to BIG CITY WALLS. Hooking us ladies up with wall permissions, paint donations/budgets, and urban arts workshops for youth in the community near you! We had a blast painting, BBQ’n, laughing, and taking maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad flicks. Thank you lady for bring’n us all together!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOD TIMES!

YOUNITY BOOTH! at the BHF 2009

Rain of shine we made it! This year’s Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival was NOT a wash out. Mad people came through. As long as you had an umbrella, rain boots, rain jacket, or even a garbage bag over you head you were good. Damn missed that flick that was funny. I’m happy we got an opportunity to build with Allison she’s so DOPE!!! One of the organizers for the F.O.K.U.S team. Girl is no joke LOVE HER! Thanks for everything hommie, we had a blast. We’re def looking forward to more YOUNITY ARTS + F.O.K.U.S projects with you!

10:30am call time. Younity is here bring ya’ll the sunshine!

1 Main Street. Dumbo Brooklyn…Great SPACE.

FAMILY DAY 12-4PM

The ILLLLLLLLLest! Organizer I’ve met so far miss Allison Maritza Lasky! Repping F.O.K.U.S

Setting up YOUNITY, TOOFLY NYC, and AM FILES…

Shout out to our Younity team Shana Louallen, and Yvette Devito for helping us hold it down! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Our hommie Black Rob, and booth neighbor for the The Hip Hop Association. FACILIATING, FOSTERING, & PRESERVING HIP-HOP CULTURE! Don’t miss JUNE 25th event next week!!! Get Your Tickets!

JUNKPRINTS! Hommie is def part of  Younity’s collective this year love her stuff! RECYCLE, RECYCLE, RECYCLE!

Show your support for your fellow independent artists making HANDMADE, and with LOVE.

AM preparing the FRESHER STENCIL for the Younity kids workshop.

Gotta spread the word!!! www.myspace.com/younityspace Call for entries have been extended to JULY 1st!

Had to make an irrigation system first to keep the rain out. MAD FUNNY!

Gotta give kids an opportunity to rock out too!

LADIES LOVE NYC Mommy dropped by with her little one!

A little rain never hurt nobody. GET your ass out the crib, one day we may not be able to. Mother Nature is not playing!

Booth is all packed up, time for Performance FUN! PHOTO BY: ★TECHIENYC★

Yeo Time for LIVE MUSIC! We out, Smif n’ Wesson, Dead Prez, Brand Nubian, and suprise guest BUCKSHOT!!!

SEE YA NEXT YEAR!!! BROOKLYN we go hard, we go hard….BROOKLYN we go hard, we go hard….

“WE’VE GOTTA HAVE IT”- FEATURES STEPHANIE LAND AND JEN ONE

We’ve
 Gotta 
Have 
It! :
 Art 
Inspired 
by
 Spike 
Lee

June
 25
–
July
 10,
2009

 Curated
 by
Coup
 d’etat
 Arts
 & 
Raquel
 Wilson

Salena
 Gallery

Long
 Island 
University 
1
 University
 Plaza,
 Brooklyn,
 NY 
11201
Opening
 Reception
Thursday,
 June 
25,
 2009, 
6PM
Part
 of
Brooklyn 
Honors
 Spike
 Lee
Check out the event & my photograph featured on NBC here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk-HdDQVCjs

CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS- HAIR

C A L L  F O R  E N T R I E S
Down to There: Women and Their Relationship to Hair
A Juried Exhibition of Art by Women
Sponsored by the Koehnline Museum of Art and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Oakton Community College.
For centuries, hair has been both a woman’s crowning glory and her greatest curse. While affording opportunities for
personal creativity, self-expression, and rebellion, hair also serves as a vehicle for harmful and limiting discourse regarding
gender, ethnicity, and femininity. Hair permeates contemporary culture—from Madison Avenue to Hollywood, hip hop to
religion. Hair holds up a mirror to women’s body images and health and well being. Artists are invited to submit a work that
thoughtfully examines the myriad ways this fraught and fascinating relationship shapes our individual and shared experiences.
Where: Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines, IL, 847-635-2633
When: The exhibition runs Tuesday, October 27 through Friday, November 6, 2009. A public reception will be held
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, from 5 to 8 p.m. Artists are encouraged to attend this special event and discuss their work with
students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Who: Artists who identify as women are invited to submit one work for consideration. Artists must be 18 years of age or
older. Work by students is not eligible for this exhibition.
Jury/Entry Fee: No entry fee.
Submission of Work: Each artist may submit one original work for consideration. Work should relate to the theme,
“Women and Their Relationship to Hair.”

http://www.oakton.edu/womenartists.pdf

THE ARTWORK of KRISTA FRANKLIN

The Artwork of Krista Franklin
June 18-July 14th, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 18th, 2009
7pm-10pm

@ Joie de Vine 1744 W Balmoral Ave
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 989-6846

www.joiedevine.com
www.kristafranklin.com
www.trescolony.com

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