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French Street Artist JR Plasters Bronx With Community Art
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Christopher Robbins
Published Jun 26, 2011
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French graffiti artist JR and the Bronx's Hunts Point Alliance for Children have teamed up to present "Through A Mother's Eyes," a community art project that involves members of the neighborhood, through images taken by and of Hunts Point residents themselves. With the areas physical structures being plastered with the people who live amongst them, the focus of the project is "community art" in its truest sense.
JR, this year's TED prize winner, also recently replaced Kenny Scharf's mural on Houston, wheatpasted stoops across Park Slope, and his Lakota project can be seen all over Soho as part of Inside Out, a massive participatory art project that "transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work."
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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