In this video, João Ruas and Andrew Hem draw from their rich cultural backgrounds to create a painting that seems to group together three widely different individuals with varying cores.

Song: Working For A Nuclear Free City – “Black Rivers”

Seattle street artists No Touching Ground, NKO, and Dan Hawkins crafted a tomb project last year, which was a “case study in the archeology of memory.”

CLICK HERE TO READ JEN GRAVES’ ARTICLE IN THE STRANGER ABOUT THE PROJECT.

That particular project was a bit hidden to the public, but the three artists now want to work together with the ever-supportive 4culture to recreate this installation in a way that is accessible and open to the public. The New Mystics were previously behind projects like the Bridge Motel, the Belmont, Moore: Inside Out, and the Corner: 23rd & Union, so if you enjoyed those pieces of public art, please think about donating to their Kickstarter campaign. The goal is to collect $2,000 for the public installation, which will be made live on April 4th, 2011 at Gallery 4Culture (101 Prefontaine Place S., Seattle, WA).

CHECK OUT THE KICKSTARTER AND SUPPORT PUBLIC ART!

A while back I stumbled upon the most amazing book in the entire world. Leonardo Ericailcane is mostly known for his large scale street art antics, but his works on paper are equally impressive in an entirely different way. In his book Potente Di Fuoco, Ericailcane takes all of the drawings from his childhood and redraws them 20 years later. It’s a brilliant idea (I admit I desperately wish I had come up with it), and the images really speak for themselves.

Also, Ericailcane is currently showing at Upper Playground in San Francisco. He painted a sweet new mural for the occasion. Show runs through December 19th.

Hey, Seattlites!

There’s a live painting going on today in Seattle, with a boatload of fun Seattle artists like Augie Pagan, Mat Savage, PaperMarbleS, CASH, Tessa Hulls, John Osgood and Sensei23 & Zach Bohnenkamp of Matamuros. Interesting collection of folks here, so head on over today, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm (thank goodness for Pacific Northwest summers) at Bherd Studios Gallery at The Greenwood Collective (8537 Greenwood Ave N Suite 1, Seattle, WA).

A light rail station will be running through Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in the near future, and they’re seeking temporary art installations for the wall. If you have a strong connection to the Capitol Hill neighborhood and would like to propose a work of art, please visit http://projects.soundtransit.org/Projects-Home/STart-Public-Art-Program/Call-for-Artists/Capitol-Hill-Wall-Artists.xml for more information.

The Sound Transit Art Program (STart) would like to encourage literary, conceptual, architecture-based works that deal with interpretations of site and ‘spirit of place.’ STart encourages all types of artists to apply, including 2-D, writing, and history. Limited 3-D art opportunities exist.

The intention is to turn the construction wall into a giant community canvas that evolves and changes overtime like the neighborhood itself.

hydEON (Ian Ferguson) has crafted an amazing large-scale mural of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The full 8′ x 4′ piece can be seen in-person at 2020 Cycle. (2020 E. Union St. Seattle, WA 98122).

READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH HYDEON HERE.