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Last Look: Wheatpasting Demo with Burlesque of North America

2pm, free

In Eric Baudelaire’s Sugar Water (currently on view), a billposter spends 72 minutes methodically wheat-pasting three images in a fictional Paris Metro station. Want to learn how to wheatpaste faster and closer to home? In this workshop, Wes Winship and Mike Davis of acclaimed local print collective Burlesque of North America will demonstrate basic wheatpasting techniques, showing you how to use found paper objects and your own original artwork to create large scale collages and wall murals. 

The workshop is free and open to the public and begins at 2pm. 

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Phil Jones joue avec les petits annonces et le street art à Minnéapolis…

Phil Jones plays with street art and classified ads in Minneapolis …

A short film about HOTTEA’s time in Berlin. Also featuring: Moneyless, Aimee Dymond and SpiderTag

See more HOTTEA tonight: http://bit.ly/HOTTEAFlyingSolo

The meaning is to create a piece about two people with different backgrounds finding similarities and meeting halfway to form a closer bond. The purpose is to create something beautiful and interesting for people to look at and experience.

See more HOTTEA this Saturday: http://bit.ly/HOTTEAFlyingSolo

Titled after HOTTEA’s grandfather FRANCISCO he has few memories of him but the ones he has are very strong. This piece was done in addition to his piece entitled SOCORRO. Two pieces done for two of the most important and influential people in my life.

See more HOTTEA this Saturday: http://bit.ly/HOTTEAFlyingSolo

MPLS.TV: What do you love about Minneapolis?

HOTTEA: The one thing that I really can’t live without are summers here in Minneapolis. The city is so alive and the energy is amazing! Movies in the park, looking up at the night sky with Cary Grant on the big screen is priceless. Biking down Hennepin and Lyndale at 2 in the morning in a T-shirt and shorts. Seeing live music at 7th St. Entry, there are just too many things I love about Minneapolis.

M: What inspires you?

H: The city is always inspiring me. There are endless possibilities in how we can interact with the urban landscape. I love bringing life to a space that may be lacking or be going unnoticed. I kind of represent the underdog locations of the city that can not compete with the strip malls, tanning salons or cellphone stores, etc., etc..

M: Does love play a role in your pieces?

H: Love has a way of working itself into a lot of the things I do. It’s a big part of all of our lives. Endless movies, songs, poems, books, artwork, street art can be traced back to the “L” word. I try to incorporate it without being too literal. It’s like if you notice it, then it just adds that much more value to the work.

M: What are your plans for 2012?

H: Well I have a lot of travel plans. If everything goes as planned I will start my travels in L.A then to Sao Paulo, Brazil and finally a street art festival in Poland. I also have several large-scale pieces I will be installing at disclosed locations here in Minneapolis.

M: What advice do you have for up-and-coming artists?

H: Honestly, this really goes for anything in life. MPLS.TV wouldn’t be where it is without it, street artists such as JR, ROA, BLU, Swoon, the list goes on… and that is CONSISTENCY. With that and a strong idea everything should fall naturally into place.

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See HOTTEA’s first solo show – Flying Solo – Saturday night from 7-9 at Haus Salon. HOTTEA will be debutting 5 brand new pieces. One of which includes 20 different colors with over 4,000 pieces of yarn.

Using yarn and stencils as the medium, an alternate surface was created using the existing architecture within the space. Non-destructively creating a piece of street art that speaks about the fragility of these works.

See more HOTTEA this Saturday: http://bit.ly/HOTTEAFlyingSolo

HOTTEA’s time in london may have been short but the support for street art is vast. He had never experienced as much support from a single city such as London.

See more HOTTEA this Saturday: http://bit.ly/HOTTEAFlyingSolo

At MPLS.TV, we’re big fans of local art, especially local art that can be found in the streets. We’re happy to announce the support of Flying Solo – HOTTEA’s solo show. Yep. This HOTTEA. The one you see around Minneapolis spelled out in yarn.

Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing some of HOTTEA’s videos here on our Tumblr and will have an exclusive interview with HOTTEA on Friday!

Flying Solo
Saturday November 19th from 7-9PM
HAUS Salon
4240 Nicollet Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN

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All Natural Graffiti

Unlike spray paint, moss graffiti is all natural and healthy to work with. You can paint words or images, and the moss fills in like magic! It’s easy as pie to whip up a batch of moss paint.

Here’s how, in your blender, combine:

• One can of cheap beer or 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• A few handfuls of moss
• One teaspoon of sugar

Blend until the mixture is smooth, and you’re ready to get painting! You can use a brush to paint your moss onto concrete walls, rocks, or brick. Mist the moss once a day to help it thrive, and soon your green graffiti will take hold! If you’re looking to take this project to the streets, use caution- we don’t want to be responsible for any vandalism charges!

Broken Crow Mural GIF. Don’t watch too long or you might get dizzy…

Light Lockers (by Light The Underground)

See more of Light The Underground at IMPERMANENT PUBLIC - The New & Evolving Street Art show at Future Presence tonight from 5-11.

1126 2nd Street NE

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154722987933477 

The show will feature documented work as well as special site-specific installations by yarn artist HOTTEA, internationally renowned artist Sean Martindale of Toronto, Light The Underground, Andrew Casey, Phil Jones, Jenny Moxley and Nathaniel.  One of the highlights of the evening will no doubt be a special “Momentary Performance” by Experiential artist Lee Walton, whose work publicly documents the most basic actions of a modern urbanite. 

Popcorn strings seem kind of old-school — I’ve never had the privilege of making them at Christmastime, but I appreciate their sentimental value. The other day I was able to see Hottea at work, and I became inspired to make my own impermanent mark on the cityscape. Popcorn strings make sense as street art, too: popcorn is biodegradable (and edible!) and its bright and lei-like appearance can make anything look cheerful.