#hieroveiga

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Grace The Streets x Tristan Eaton x Hiero Veiga collab painted earlier this year for Trigger Fingers Dallas.

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#Streetart by #HieroVeiga @hieroveiga in #Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for #OUTERSPACEPROJECT @outerspaceproject Photo by @dvphotovideo More pics at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/07/30/streetart-hiero-veiga-atlanta-georgia-usa/ #streetartatlanta #streetartusa #georgiastreetart #streetartgeorgia #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgopf6ToB_a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[scenefromthesidewalk]

"HIERO"

by Detour

“I am obsessed with the practice of my craft,” says Massachusetts-born artist Hiero Veiga. Now based in Florida Hiero has been spray painting since age 12 but has long since moved on to increasingly complex portraits, scenery, and psychedelic art. In 2022 Thomas Evans, aka Detour, asked for permission to paint a portrait of Hiero and battled heavy rains to create this stunning wall for @outerspaceproject in downtown Atlanta. Detour describes his work as the point where art and innovation meet, and his ever-evolving work challenges fine art paradigms and expands our views on creativity. 

LOCATION: 95 Pryor St SW, Atlanta, GA 30303

IG: @detour303  @hieroveiga

[lamolinastreetart]

Art by Vizsla Bacon (@vizsla_bacon) & Hiero (@hieroveiga), Kwest (@kwest88) & TukeOne (@tukeone) for Concrete Canvas Fest 2023 in Hamilton, Canada #vizslabacon #hiero #kwest #tukeone #streetart #lamolinastreetart | photo by @a.tro.pa via mysl.nl/JDWFp

[magnetdude]

Crown Our Prince! Let’s Go Crazy Minneapolis! #princemural #prince #hieroveiga #minneapolis #firstavenue #hisroyalpurpleness (at Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTZRM7Ou8B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When life becomes art. Amazing mural by @hieroveiga depicting our founder, Moishe Mana elbow tapping Mayor Francis Suarez as a symbol of collaboration. Swipe to watch a snippet of the artist interview. #manacommon #wynwood #moishemana #mayorfrancissuarez #art #murals #hieroveiga https://www.instagram.com/p/CAn1DFsjQBl/?igshid=4e6trpyramzp

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HIEROVEIGA

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Bacon and Hiero @vizsla_bacon @hieroveiga #Bacon #Hiero #graff #graffiti #art #graffitiart #streetart #torontoart #walls #torontostreetart #urbanart #wallart #sprayart #paint #spraypaint #urbanwalls #graffitiporn #instagraff #instagraffiti #canada #Toronto #torontoartist #photography #photo #letters #colours #graffitialley #2019 #streetartistry #character #streetsoftoronto https://www.instagram.com/p/ByZ-sk-J-6i/?igshid=x6muevscblas

[trascapades]

🕊💜🎶#ArtIsAWeapon New @prince mural by artist Hiero Veiga @hieroveiga💜🎶 #Prince4Ever #Prince #celebration2022 📸 by @teesgram (repost) #BlackMusicMonth #PublicArt #PrinceMural #PrinceArt #PrinceCelebration (at First Avenue & 7th St Entry) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeU9xRGMnfv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[msbrina7]

#REPOST @princeanddonuts with @get__repost__app Absolutely incredible work done by @hieroveiga Stunning is an understatement 💜💜 https://www.instagram.com/p/CeUtzWnjrajDMm3jBPHDj53f522QARCteg03IA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[impermanent-art]

Work by Thomas Evans and Hiero Veiga for last year’s edition of Cleveland Walls. A portrait of Garrett Morgan, inventor of the traffic light and gas mask.

[barbarapicci]

#Streetart by #HieroVeiga @ #FortCollins, USA @hieroveiga #arte #art #graffiti #murals #murales #arteurbana #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQHNh2g78f/?igshid=yzq58aczcxpu

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How a new community of Black artists was born out of Denver’s police brutality protests

#policebrutality🗨 👮‍♀️ 🌔

Colorado News

As volunteers cleaned up Denver’s Civic Center park after a night of protests against police brutality in early June, someone spray-painted the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on a piece of plywood put up to protect the base of a statue. 

The message caught the eye of a Denver Parks and Recreation employee. It also sparked an idea.

That night, a proposal was drafted to curate Black Lives Matter-related art around the park and it was approved within 48 hours. The following week, almost 30 artists began work on their own plywood boxes, the start of the first-ever Black Love Mural Festival. 

And it didn’t just stop there.

The creation of the Black Love Mural Festival sparked a network of Black artists and creatives of all ages, some of whom were invited to participate. Others insisted on being involved, spurred by Black Lives Matter protests in Denver after George Floyd’s death at the hands of a police officer in Minnesota in May.  

The Black Love Mural Festival has helped the work of Black artists be seen by the community and opened the door to opportunities for these painters, collage-makers, and other artists to express their opinions on the movement’s events, without having to be on the front lines of each march. 

Hiero Vega, @hieroveiga, who has collaborated with muralist Detour, aka Thomas Evans, on the Spray Their Names project in Denver, contributed this piece to the Black Love Mural Festival in Civic Center park. The work was initially part of a box protecting the base of a sculpture paying tribute to Christopher Columbus. Protesters toppled the sculpture in June, but protected this mural and three others. (Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

“It’s so cool to be able to create a piece of art that can convey a message that’s way louder than I could ever scream,” said Ki’erre Dawkins, who invited people who were passing by, some of them protesters, to leave their thumbprints in paint on his mural. 

When Robert Gray and his team at Rob the Art Museum reached out to various Black artists in the Denver area, none could have imagined the impact they were about to make. 

As the marches and vigils moved east to Aurora, where protests sprang up around the death of Elijah McClain after a violent arrest by police, the murals were completed and left to share their messages in the heart of downtown Denver.

“It’s manifested well beyond just the Civic Center park,” said Eyrk Fisher, Rob the Art Museum co-founder and director of operations.

Fisher said one of the goals of Rob the Art Museum, a marketing services company, is to create artistic and economic opportunities for Black artists. This project did just that by paying each artist. 

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But just asking the simple question of “Can I be involved?” led to new relationships and opportunities for Selah Ruckard, a 21-year-old who asked to be part of the project after participating in protests nearby.

“That was my very first piece that big, it has connected me to so many different things that I didn’t think it would do by asking a question,” Ruckard said.

Ruckard collaborated during the festival with Vincent Gordon, a more established artist. As they worked together on the spiraling background of Ruckard’s mural, the lifeline flowing from the feminine figure at its center, they began to seem like two peas in a pod, Fisher said.  

Selah Ruckard (@selah.v.art) participated in the Black Love Mural Festival after seeing the art in Civic Center while protesting downtown. She collaborated with Vincent Gordon (@vincentgordon) since this was the largest mural she had done. (Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

“Mentoring young artists has always been something that I’ve done and something I’m attracted to,” Gordon said about his work with Ruckard. “When you’re working on a canvas with somebody, it can be intimate.”

Gordon said the Black Love Mural Festival was extraordinary because it connected artists from all corners of the city, some of whom had never met. 

“We need more people that are thinking outside of the box because the current box that we are in just isn’t working,” he said.

Holly-Kai Hurd, an artist in her forties, has noted the lack of opportunities for artists of color in Denver. She says it has been an age-old issue that she and other minority women in her art collective, Innervision, struggle with. 

“That has always been an issue,” she said. “There are lots of white galleries, but lots of them don’t show an interest in showing the work of artists of color, especially if your subject matter is connected to political issues.”

Hurd, who often works in textiles, used her plywood mural to pay tribute to Sarah Collins, a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four other young girls. 

“In all of these situations, whether we’re talking about George Floyd or the civil rights movement, I think that people really just need to understand that this is a war, there are so many casualties of this war,” she said. “It’s a gaping wound that is also very old.”

Dawkins said he asked the community to pledge their commitment to equal opportunity by leaving their fingerprints in the stars and stripes in his mural. The images made up of the fingerprints of strangers symbolizes the importance of minorities to the United States.

Work by muralists at the Black Love Mural Festival in Denver’s Civic Center park. Clockwise from left: Stephen Taylor (@stephen_the_painter); Cassie Smith (@flowergirlcreative); Regine Cotton (@adore_regine). (Photos by Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

“Their thumbprint was basically their oath to give more opportunities to minorities,” Dawkins said. “We all have to do our part so everyone has equal opportunities in the United States.”

Fisher said Rob the Art Museum hopes to be on the “ladder side” of change, helping to provide opportunities for Black creatives in Denver. Creating the Black Love Mural Festival — which has been granted a third extension and now will remain in the park through the end of July and could become an annual event — was about using art to change the narrative, he said. 

“There’s a lot of chaos going on, and it’s hard to speak on history when you’re in the middle of it,” he said. 

Changing that narrative seemed to be a common theme throughout each artist’s murals. Hurd and Dawkins both encourage the community to not let this time of activism become a trend or a means of social media popularity, reduced to a few common hashtags. 

“I just hope that people actually want to see change,” Dawkins said. “Don’t do it because Black Lives Matter sounds cool, do it because you genuinely care about people.”

View more of the art from the festival below.

Artist Ki’erre Dawkins invited people passing by to contribute their thumbprint to his collage and mural to show that the stars and stripes of the United States are made up by minorities. It stood as their oath to help provide equal opportunities for people of color. (Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

Artists from the Innervision Art Collective collaborated on the same plywood box for the Black Love Mural Festival in Denver’s Civic Center Park, all featuring different art styles and messages around the statue. Holly-Kai Hurd’s work, right, pays tribute to Sarah Collins, who survived the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.(Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

Devin “Speaks” Urioste (@goodlooksvol.1), was one of the artists featured in the Black Love Mural Festival in Denver’s Civic Center Park. (Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

La Dopa (@bannedesign), was one of the artists featured in the Black Love Mural Festival in Denver’s Civic Center Park. (Lauren Irwin, The Colorado Sun)

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[magnetdude]

Almost finished! Unveiling June 2nd 6pm First Avenue & N 9th Street, Minneapolis, MN #princemural #hieroveiga #minneapolis #prince (at Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeSAqYysUDN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

This powerful mural was created by two black artists @detour303 and @hieroveiga.

Location: E Colfax Ave & Race St, next to 7-11.

It is time to listen, get educated, and take action.

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@hieroveiga #brucelee @galeracollective #trackside #streetartmural 8dec17 #igers #instagood #instastreetart #picoftheday #photooftheday #photography #artbasel #miamiartbasel #artbaselmiami2017 #artbasel2017 #wynwood #miami #urbanart #art #creative