Wynwood Mural Fest 2020 WMFvx

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WMF 2020
Virtual Experience & Mural Projects

The world put events on hold for 2020 due to the Covid19 Pandemic and the official Art Basel Miami Beach Art Fair was canceled, but Wynwood Mural Fest still united the global street art community with a hybrid x virtual street art festival.

WMF painted in the streets AND hosted a series of live steam events [WMFvx] which included interviews, virtual studio visits, panel discussions, and a custom 360 virtual art gallery and interactive exhibition space.

NEW MURALS

Solo Projects & Large Collaborations

500+ LINEAR FEET of wall were painted by 60+ Artists during WMF 2020 in Miami's neighborhoods of Wynwood and Little Haiti

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HYBRID VIRTUAL 360 GALLERY

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With the support of creative collaborators from Florida, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Italy, London, Switzerland, and elsewhere, the WMF team launched a custom hybrid virtual experience that included an interactive 360 Virtual Galley, Virtual Brand Activations, live hosted virtual tours, and on-demand video content within the gallery.

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LIVE STREAM

Studio Visits

Join WMF for a series of live and virtual studio visits that were streamed during WMF 2020 to learn more about artists such as RISK, MECRO (aka Glossblack), and Adrian Avilla.

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LIVE STREAM

Creative Conversations

Gain unique insight into the minds of thought leaders and organizers in street art, photography, and urban culture via a series of creative conversations such as interviews and panel discussions with that were filmed and lived streamed during WMF 2020.

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ART WORKSHOP

Wheatpasting with SACSIX

SACSIX takes to the streets for a livestream wheatpasting workshop from Freeman Ally on the lower east side of New York City with iconic pieces featuring Kamala Harris and Dr. Fauci.

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2020 Murals

Wynwood Mural Fest 2020 produced several large-scale collaborative projects including:

Muhammad Ali Tribute Wall

HIERO

Miami Underwater

MSG CREW

Warehouse Takeover

Permanent Vacation

The Basel Paste Up

HecOne x Brujo

WYN317 Takeover

Few & Far Women

Most Wanted Art Car

Jason Sauer

MSG CREW

Miami Underwater | RC Cola Plant
@msgcrew

Miami Style Graffiti, otherwise known as MSG, is a prolific collective of graffiti artists from the greater Miami area. Their work varies from tags, throwups, and murals across the city and the crew consists of both known and anonymous local artists.

This mural was painted December 2020 alongside of the old RC Cola plant. It features an underwater seascape with "MSG" spelled out with coral reefs. There's sea life and other elements of the abyss detailed around the letters, as well as a sky and shoreline spanning across the top of the wall.

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ARTISTS

100

FEET LONG

PERMANENT
VACATION

301 Nw 36th Street Located on NW 36th Street between NW 2nd and NW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL

Project is curated by artists:
- Cavan Koebel (@raw.sol) Miami, FL
- Mastro (@mastronyc) Bronx, NY

Permanent Vacation embodies the creative lifestyle of the artist. We are never not on the job; we are always clocked in; and we still haven’t felt like we’ve worked a day in our lives. This project transforms a vacant warehouse into a public street art & graffiti gallery as an ode to doing what you love!

It is a celebration of the city of Miami and the art culture it has nourished. Art Basel 2020 may be “cancelled”, in a corporate sense: galleries may be closed, and many events aren’t happening- but nothing can stop us from doing what we love and giving the people of Miami what they want. 2020 has been a tough year, not just on the Permanent Vacation team and fellow artists, but for the rest of the world as well, which is why we are so motivated to do this project to the best of our abilities. We aim to uplift, to inspire, and to remind people that another day alive is another reason to celebrate. LEARN MORE...

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ARTISTS

300+

FEET LONG

THE BASEL PASTE-UP

by HecOne & The Brujo

This project was a collab with HecOne (founder of the Loveism movement) and Miami-based pastup artist, The Brujo. This collective collage project, made with hundreds of individual paste-ups and stickers submitted by artists from around the world was devised as a way to bring to Miami all the artists that would usually come during Art Basel which was canceled due to Covid-19.

The project included individual stickers from very notable street artists such as Obey, Risk, The London Police, 1up Crew, Cranio and many more.

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ARTISTS

Few & Far Women

curated by Meme
at Gallery WYN317 Art Yard

Meme is a self-educated artist with ancestral roots through her grandmother to the Shoshone Paiute tribe. Frustrated with the negativity she experienced in both the graffiti and skate world, Meme founded Few & Far, an all-female group with a collective goal to empower women who skate and paint. Meme invited several other artists to breath new life into the backyard event space at female-owned street art gallery, WYN317, in Little Haiti during WMF2020.

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Most Wanted Fine Art Car

by Jason Sauer

In partnership with Wynwood Mural Fest, a layer of communal energy is added to Jason Sauer's derby art cars. During the festival, Jason invites artists to tag and sticker his car. After, Jason transports Wynwood vibes to the demolition derby where the car is ultimately crushed, before being reborn as sculpture.

By merging the world of sculpture with the tumultuous realm of demolition derby, he delves into the transformative power of destruction and renewal. and serenity.

With support from

The Andy Warhol Foundation

3D MODEL DESIGN

Preliminary Renders of Virtual Exhibition Space

- Creative direction by Stephanie Kassoy of Nekto Collective (Miami, FL)
- 3D Model digital design & rendering by Hyper Creative Hub (Milan, Italy)

Hyper Creative Hub was founded in 2017 in Milan by Marco Giovannini & Francesco Terragnoli. They are an interdisciplinary studio involved in digital visualisation and virtual architecture. Their interdisciplinary approach let them work across a range of disciplines, blending technology, architecture, design and communication.

Whether it’s an image, an animation or an immersive experience, their team guides clients from the first sketch to the final presentation throughout the whole creative process.

Hyper Creative Hub is also involved in it's own architectural and design concepts, following a philosophy that joins several disciplines in a whole total project.

WMFvx CULTURE CHAT

Ricky Powell Slideshow

Streamed Live 12.12.2024
Comical live steam chat with New York photographer Ricky Powell and Phil Reese of Good Luck Dry Cleaners. Join Ricky while he adds colorful backstories to some of his most famous photos. Take note of the impact of Ricky's iconic photography which became synonymous with NYC pop culture and hip hop.
Find Ricky – at @thelazyhustler

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Industry Roundtable Chat pt.1

Streamed Live 12.4.2020
Wynwood Mural Fest 2020 Presents 'COVID Chronicles', hosted by Urban Art Now (Amsterdam)
👉 In this 2 part series, a virtual panel discussion of leading art and culture organizers, we analyze success and failure within a year of change and discuss what 2021 can bring for the public art movement.

In conversation with...
- Tina Ziegler - Moniker Art Fair (UK)
- Bjorn van Poucke - All About Things, The Christalship Festival (BE)
- Yasha Young - Yasha Young Projects (US)

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Industry Roundtable Chat pt.2

Streamed Live 12.22.2024
Wynwood Mural Fest 2020 Presents 'COVID Chronicles', hosted by Urban Art Now (Amsterdam)
👉 In this 2 part series, a virtual panel discussion of leading art and culture organizers, we analyze success and failure within a year of change and discuss what 2021 can bring for the public art movement.

In conversation with...
- Dave van den Berg - POW WOW Rotterdam (NL)
- Lars Pedersen - Roskilde Festival Graffiti Camp, Institute for Urban Art Copenhagen (DK)
- Lee Bofkin - Global Street Art, London Mural Fest (UK)
- Stefan Buser - Urbane Kunst Basel (CH)

WMFvx CULTURE CHAT

Power of Public Art

Streamed Live 12.4.2020
Tune in for a virtual culture chat with The RAW Project (Miami) + Paint the City Peaceful (LA), two non-profit organizations utilizing public art as a tool to engage and improve communities.

- Robert De Los Rios, Founder of The RAW Project
- Lee Stapleton, Founder of Paint the City Peaceful

Join them for a spirited discussion about lessons learned from launching grassroots public art initiatives, community engagement, and the powerful psychophysical impacts of art and its ability to heal and change perceptions.

WMFvx STUDIO VISIT

Adrian Avila

Streamed Live 12.3.2024
Studio visit with Adrian Avila, a Miami-based oil painter. His practice is rooted in an exploration of the timeless self and its relation to the collective consciousness. Adrian's conversation goes deep into the influence of his personal relationships and Cuban-American roots in his expression of femininity, knowledge, and power.

Gain a greater understanding of his creative process and the texture, symbols, linear patterns, sacred geometric shapes, and religious influences that can be found in his artwork. @AdrianAvilaArts

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