Folklife Festival Narrative Session: My NY: Urban Street Art part 2
About the Project
The 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrated just a few of the innumerable manifestations of traditional culture in New York City. In addition to a shared urban culture, most New Yorkers also have one or more reservoirs of specialized traditional knowledge, which they have acquired from their ethnic and/or religious upbringing, working in a particular occupation, or living in a specific area of the city. The innumerable, multifaceted ways in which these factors interact are what make New York and New Yorkers so fascinating. Discussion facilitated by Elena Martinez with festival participants Rubby Inoui, Gaspar Ingui, Will Feliciano, Hector Nazario explores the early expressions of graffiti muralists in the New York urban scene. The artist group, known as Tats Cru, how their art form is viewed not only as an outlet of self-expression but as a source of community identity and mourning. See the finding aid for this program here.
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