Art We Love :: ESPO – A Love Letter For You

Espo aka Stephen Powers, a New York City pioneer in street art + graffiti has followed his LOVE for art in a very literal sense with his new project- A Love Letter to You.

Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.  Generous support provided by the Brownstein Group and Septa.

www.aloveletterforyou.com
www.muralarts.org

ESPO just doesn’t stop. Near deity-like artist Steven Powers has another great project he’s started called A Love Letter For You. This time he’s taking along local and international artists to tag the sides of 50 walls between 63rd and 45th street on Market street. There’s going to be a documentary film along with two books documenting the process. He’s also going to provide training for youth and creating free signange for local businesses.

I think this is so rad, because not only is he getting to write on these buildings, but in essence he’s trying to gentrify a huge area through art. This is something I’ve though of doing before but obviously not to the epic extent of what Steve is doing. I can’t wait to see this documentary and grab the book.

[via: Kitsune Noir]

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