Discover The Brooklyn Street Art Scene

The desire to stand out is as old as humanity. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and discover 19th century graffiti on a 2000 year old Egyptian temple. During World War II, the "Kilroy was Here" tag was written by GIs around the world. We will go to the neighborhood of Bushwick, which was first a Dutch village, and has seen many changes: from a neighborhood of German immigrants, then Italians, and lately Puerto Ricans. With a new wave of gentrification, Bushwick has become a young neighborhood, and a neighborhood of artists. In this tour, we will see the murals of the Bushwick Collective, as well as the works of graffiti artists and artists from the neighborhood.

The Bushwick Collective murals change every year with a large street festival in early June. We will see artwork from the collective and some from locals artists and taggers. We will start on Starr street where many of the Bushwick Collective murals coexist with works from taggers and graffiti artists. We will go to the Maria Hernandez park, and see some of the signs of gentrification. We will loop down Troutman street and talk about the legendary Zexor, and his memorial mural. We will walk down to the L Train vintage store which is completed painted on all sides with street art, work our way down to Fine and Raw (a local vegan chocolate factory painted by Albernoz Espartaco). We will then walk down Jefferson St to see Owen Dippie's Radiant Madonna, with a Keith Haring style baby! We will loop back to where we started.