YOUNITY presents- MFTA MURAL PROJECT 1.27.11 from 6-9pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Please join us for an opening reception at Materials for the Arts on January 27, 2011 from 6-9 to check out the MFTA Mural Project. Artists include: Alice Mizrachi, Bisy, Cece Carpio, Cern, Clark, Crystal Clarity, Erotica, Free5, Marthalicia Matarrita, Noxer, Rimx & Zipos

Materials for the Arts/ 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd floor, Long Island City, NY 11101

Wellingcourt Community Mural Project

A sensational day with friends, creating and beautifying one community at a time….

Thank you for welcoming us with open arms Wellingcourt….

See you later Wellingcourt….. thank you for the great memories!

YOUNITY’s RE-FRESH THE STREETS! – Williamsburg Brooklyn

The YOUNITY Re-Fresh the Streets live street art collaboration is complete!!! Super duper special shout out to our Younity Youth Jerely, and Talia who threw down with the can control. We are so proud;)  our Younity Crew Shana, Diana, Mama, and Samia for helping freestyle that store front. Jazzy jazz baby! I couldn’t have done it without ya. Especially Abeni Garrett for hooking up the video piece for this project I can;t wait to see it!!! Gracias MAMASITAS! Shout out to the owner of this entire spot, JERRY ( Official Hero Status! ) for being so humble and sweet with all us girls. Looking fwd to the Friday Jazz Jam sessions to close out the summer, SOUTHSIDE style. Mad love goes out to OUR people, the few left in this community who got smart in the 70-80’s and bought their property! This hood back then was one of NYC’s worst. Gentrifaction is inevitable, and we feel for you. THIS WALL IS FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RE-FRESH THE STREETS – YOUNITY Female Stylez, Ideaz, and Skillz!

Jazz Jam Sessions every FRIDAY NIGHT!!! wmcjazz.org. Support your local peeps who do this for the love not for the money. Especially folks like Jerry who have held it down from day 1!

YOUNITY YOUTH Prepping the wall:)

Day 1: PREP WALL. Younity Crew; Shana Louallen, Diana Mc Clure, TF, AM, & Younity Youth; Talia, Jeraline, Tati, and Charlie, and #1 mom Oli.  Thank You!

DAY 2: AIKO fresh start…weather was great!

EMA, and Sofia Maldonado

Tabasco your so cute!!!

Sofia came thru and rocked her dopeness:) She brought Lee’s baby along

Classic Charlie! Repping the Dominican flag I LOVE IT! Photo by: OLIVIA

GROW…

I need another day on it it, lot’s to fix…

VIK – You killed it girl! I LOVE IT;)

EROTICA- DOPE AS USUAL!

YOUNITY CREW- the ladies the ladies

Charlie gave me some good pollen advice on the sunflower piece- thanks kid!

Our peoples, Jim and Kala Murray from their latest BOOK: Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York out now! taking professional flicks of our wall. THANK YOU!!!

MORE PICS >>> urbanimagephotography.com

So proud of our Younity Youth…give them a can and they FLY!

Freestyle skillz baby, off the dome…

Mama! Yeo thank you so much for the ladders and extra paint your BIG CITY WALLS HEART rocks!!!

AM going high with the sunflower seeeeeeeds…

My sister INKS came thru to rock some bird stencils…

JEN ONE work in progress…Fresher Logo in progress…We’re almost there ladies, SEND ME final flicks! It got too dark…

We were happy SHIRO got a chance to paint with us this summer while she visited us from Japan. Her flight was the next day and she banged this baby out in 1 day! Good job Shiro! We love youuuuuuu. See you next summer!

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 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!

Anti Graffiti by-law petition for Cape Town South Africa

Fait47 sent us some very important INFO. Those who support PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION. Info below:

we are facing a new anti-graffiti by-law in cape town which takes away the house owners rights to give permission for any artworks on their walls besides a house number.

The new, proposed graffiti by-law makes no distinction between vandalism and public art that is done with the permission of the owner of the property.

Please can you assist us in our efforts to amend this by-law by signing the petition and forwarding it on…

As we need to present it to the council during the public participation process.

thank you, here is the link and below are the details of the two points in the by-law that we would like to amend.

http://www.petitiononline.com/art4all/petition.htm

To:  The City of Cape Town

The new, proposed graffiti by-law criminalizes all forms of public art and violates our personal right to freedom of expression on private property.

It makes no distinction between vandalism and public art that is done with the permission of the owner of the property.

The by-law will soon be presented for public discussion and these are the two main issues that we feel need to be addressed:

1. The definition of ‘graffiti’ under the by-law is too broad. It classifies ‘graffiti’ as any inscription, word, figure, letter, sign, symbol, sketch, picture or drawing. There should be a clear differentiation between ‘graffiti vandalism’ [e.g. gang tags, scratchings] and public art that is done with permission from the owner [murals, colourful characters and positive, inspiring messages].

2. The by- law removes the legal right of the private property owner to paint anything other than a house number on his/her wall. We strongly believe that the private property owner should maintain the right to determine what to paint on to his/her property without permission from the City.

if you agree with these two amendments please sign the petition on the link above

and hopefully we can adjust the by-law to become a more inclusive one and thus limit the damage it can potentially do to the creative growth of our city.

YOUTUBE IT! Younity Wall Collaboration

This year we had the pleasure of teaming up with Abeni Garrett to rock the time lapse video for the Younity wall collaboration at Alphabeta. check it out!<center>
This year we had the pleasure of teaming up with Abeni Garrett to rock the time lapse video for the Younity wall collaboration at Alphabeta. check it out!

Younity Wall Collaboration Part-1

Younity Wall Collaboration Part-2

Younity Wall Collaboration Part-3

Abeni Garrett is also the same lovely image “Portrait of A Black Sk8er Girl” on this years Heart & Soul flyer and book! Thanks again for all your hard work on putting together this video Abeni YOU ROCK! Shout to all the artists who participated:

Artists: Toofly, Alice Mizrachi, Lady Pink, AIKO, Queen Andrea, Diva, Erotica, Niz, Sofia Maldonado, Jen One, Acet, and Jakee!

LINK
www.myspace.com/cityrider

YOUNITY WALL COLLABORATION

Back from ATL! got a short sweet rest but excited to share the Younity flicks first with ya’ll…

YOUNITY FEMALE WALL COLLABORATION – FRIDAY 8.10.08 – SUNDAY 8.12.08

The 20 minute buffer whew!