Leona Strassberg Steiner
Semester Project
Street Art-Public Art
My project aims to promote art to people that
were never in a museum in their lifetime. Street art is now becoming so
mainstream that it is being auctioned off at the most prestigious auction
houses in the country. So it seems only logical to bring it into the classroom
and to as many people in downtown Jersey City as possible. My after school art
program, Alley Arts, has its entrance from the alleyway between Third and
Fourth Street. Most of the traffic in the alley is neighbors coming home,
drunks looking for a safe place to pee, dog walkers, children playing, and
taggers. So why not bring art to everyone?
My plan for this project is twofold, first an
empty wall painted white, for taggers, street artists, and students to have a
go at making the alleyway a public outside museum, by creating street art or
tagging. Giving invited artists and students a theme every couple of months to
create wall art in that specified them. The second part of the project is on
the adjacent wall I will build a large box, where art will be exhibited.
Sometimes art by my students, other time art by artist friends, and hopefully
this will become a regular way for artists and students in the area to show
work.
The first show will include artists from NJCU
as well as Jersey City artists from the neighborhood, of which there are many.
The first theme for both walls will be “Summer in the City” after the work is
completed there will be a garden party/happening with additional space in my
garden for artists to show their work. I hope this will become a regular event
that will happen three or four times a year. Knowing how the creative mind of
children can explode and morph I would love to also incorporate making art from
objects we see on the street as well. Watch out Jersey City! Alley Arts is on
the prowl!
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