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Frank Jump with John Kelly @ Barnes & Noble Books – World AIDS Day – Bertol Dragani
Frank Jump onstage @ B&N on 82nd & Broadway © Bertol Dragani
John Kelly & Frank Jump onstage @ B&N on 82nd & Broadway © Bertol Dragani
John Kelly & Frank Jump singing Joni Mitchell's People's Parties © Bertol Dragani
Jump signing his book Fading Ads of New York City - History Press © Bertol Dragani
Jump with former student and photographer Mariah Davis © Bertol Dragani
Jump signing book for Kathy Benson of the Museum of the City of New York © Bertol Dragani
Jump signing book for Kathy Benson of the Museum of the City of New York © Bertol Dragani
Artstep paints three monumental murals for Catch seafood restaurant in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District
Courtesy of Molly Stevens
Artstep paints three monumental murals for Catch, EMM Group’s three-story seafood restaurant in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The artist-run art consultancy worked with ICRAVE designers to develop the murals to resemble vintage advertisement, the kind that can be seen fading on building facades throughout the world. Contact director and internationally exhibited artist Molly Stevens to find out how Artstep can create original décor for your business or home, including mural art, stencil art, wall hangings, and more. – ArtstepNY – On Facebook
ARTSTEP's first commercial job was this mural painted to look like a faded advertisement. The restaurant "Catch" opened in the meatpacking neighborhood in early September 2011. © ArtstepNY
- Catch – 21 Ninth Avenue NYC
Nether Street Art – Baltimore, MD
Girl with red bra strap & fedora: Chase & Clay - © Nether Street Art - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Orleans & Collington - © Nether Street Art - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Walls of Fame - Secret Bridge Spot - © Nether Street Art - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Vacant Rowhomes - Whitelocke Avenue - © Nether Street Art - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Wyman Park Bridge - © Nether Street Art - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Artist: Nether
Photographer: Nether
City: Baltimore
Bio: NETHER is a urban art campaign that hopes to impact and beautify BMORE’s bleakness through vibrant street art with the hopes of evoking public discussion. The pieces that are wheatpasted to the chosen (usually vacant) surfaces directly comment on the city and the forces that have brought it to it’s shameful state.
Nether sees his work as a force that solidifies people’s connections to locations in the city that are distinctly Baltimore. He tries to reclaim and recycle the tragic landscape. This city is a place that is simultaneously loved and hated for bringing both contentment and fear, anger and joy; it’s vibe is a permeating force that becomes part of every mind experiencing it’s poetic chaos. The intention is to relentlessly pursue capturing that beauty in the mundane, that excitement in the fear, and whatever force brings out the orange and purple as a heart- felt declaration of true Bmore pride. OWN.YOUR.CITY – Nether
Featured Fade – Harlem, Flour, Hay, Grain & Feed Revisited – Carter Harris
West 128th Street, Harlem - © Carter Harris
- Flour, Hay, Grain & Feed – At Wholesale & Retail – 303 West 128th Street – Harlem, NYC – Posted on August 3, 2008 – FAB
- Carter Harris – IMDb
- Carter Harris – Wikipedia
Jim Wentzy (ACT UP) & Chinese Sign Mirage – George M. Carter
Inspired by Wentzy © George M. Carter
- ACT UP NY dot org
- Other FAB postings by Jim Wentzy: Corn Exchange Bank – Varick Street, March 2003
- & ACT UP’s James Wentzy on Soho’s Corrugated Boxes Fade – Feb 22nd, 2009
The Twin Towers Once Stood Outside Our Window – Felicia Cuebas – September 15, 2001
Student art scanned & inverted - Cypress Hills Brooklyn - Felicia Cuebas
On September 11, 2001, I was teaching my first eighth grade class in Cypress Hills on the Brooklyn & Queens border. Our classroom was on the fourth floor with a view of the Towers peeking over Forest Park. At about 9AM, as I was introducing a thematic unit about the Harlem Renaissance, when I glanced toward the City and saw what I thought was a fire in Brooklyn that was burning in front of the Towers. My students asked what was wrong and I gave them my theory and they said that it looked like the Towers were burning. I told them to get out their notebooks and turn to a fresh page. I told them I was turning on 1010WINS news radio and they were to record all the times as they announced them in the margins and then record what was being reported. I also said they may want to save these notebooks to look at them one day to remember.
After a while, they asked me what was going on and I wrote down on the board the names Osama bin-Laden and the Taliban. I had recently watched a Frontline about Afghanistan and took an educated guess. The next day we were off but on the following day they came back to school stunned. By Friday, I had them draw what they were feeling and they wrote poems, which I typed on their images. A fire-fighter who was a first responder and a former student came to the school directly from working several days without sleep. He found his way to our classroom and sobbed in my arms outside the classroom. He came in and told us of his accounts of what he had seen and what he had been doing for the past 96 hours.
When I finally got home on September 11, there were documents with singed edges that had blown into my backyard in Flatbush. Other documents from Morgan Stanley and Post-it notes were also scattered about the Brooklyn College campus. I saved them all in a Ziplock bag. The fire-fighter had come the following week to our classroom again with pictures and artifacts he had collected. I still have a glass vial of dust and ashes he had given me.
