Entangled Histories: Urban Art and its Diasporas featuring Musa 71, Harry Bones, and Venazir Martinez

Join us for an artist talk featuring Musa 71, Harry Bones, and Venazir Martinez. Moderated by Emma Riva and Caitlin Bruce with Q&A from the audience.

Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project (HCUAP, pronounced, “hiccup”) seeks to create platforms for conversation and education about urban art production (graffiti, street art, and muralism, among other genres) to explore aesthetic and historical connections between post-industrial cities. Since 2016 they have sustained programming that focused on the intercultural exchange between the post-industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, and León Guanajuato, Mexico.

• Doors open at 5 p.m.

Musa71 a graffiti writer from Barcelona who started doing graffiti in 1989. She has been painting since then, developing her art in the street, focusing in letters and the use of colors to transmit emotions. She is also the founder of the Breaking Down the Rules podcast, which provides crucial education on the history of graffiti.

Harry Bones, from Sabadell, Spain, started doing graffiti in 2001. He is a multidisciplinary artist known for his unmistakable style that fuses graffiti art, illustration, and chromatic mastery, creating captivating works ranging from hyperdetailed to minimalist. View his work at harrybones.com

Venazir, a street muralist and visual anthropreneur from the Philippines, intertwines souls and spaces with her signature red thread, weaving a vibrant tapestry of intersectional narratives that explore the evolving relationships between human traditions, cultures, memories, and the landscapes that shape them. View her work at venazir.com

Co-presented with Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project (HCUAP)