Amarillo’s Hoodoo Mural Festival unveils new public art

After a one-year hiatus for COVID-19, the Hoodoo Mural Festival returned for its second year promoting Amarillo’s downtown public art. Among featured artists was local group Blank Spaces.

Just after a 1-12 months hiatus for COVID-19, the Hoodoo Mural Festival returned for its second year promoting Amarillo’s downtown public artwork.

The pageant heading on Saturday is featuring five artists’ wall murals that are done solely for this event on many areas and properties of the downtown place.

Amongst the artists taking part in the party are highlighted artist and Clovis indigenous Drew Merritt Amarillo native Natalie Fletcher, who was the first-area winner of year 1 of Entire body Wars DAAS from Austin, Ivan Roque of Miami and local favorites Blank Areas Murals.

This year’s function additional musical attendees headlined by Austin based mostly band Nané. Also doing were being Kaelin Ellis, Corbin Cary, Rupert the Duke, Vamping and a silent disco with regional dee-jays. Reside painting and artwork demonstrations are featured as well.

Local art group Open Spaces puts its final touchups on its new mural for the Hoodoo Festival Oct. 2.

Among the regional artists who delivered a mural for the occasion was the team Blank Areas. Blank Areas is an artwork plan for learners, which offers professional encounter in painting murals all through Amarillo. The objective of the program is to give students a genuine-globe opportunity to study about hosting artwork displays and placing on mural displays.

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Shawn Kennedy, the govt director of Blank Spaces, spoke about the chance to do artwork for the downtown competition currently being vital for the city of Amarillo and to his college students in the organization.

The team has done 27 murals in the Amarillo place.

The Hoodoo Mural Festival returned to downtown Amarillo Saturday, for its second year promoting public art.

Kennedy described Saturday’s mural as quintessential Amarillo, with gold art deco backgrounds that are uncovered in the Barfield and matching a good deal of the architecture of downtown.

“Public artwork beings art to every person. Folks that would not generally pay a visit to a museum or a gallery can arrive walk the streets and get involved with the parts as they stroll by,” Kennedy reported. “Beautifying the group pays dividends to the regional overall economy. I am just fired up that Amarillo’s art community is developing.”