Autor: Jana Kopelentova Rehak, Ph.D.

This paper looks at urban Mural Art, “open canvas” in a city, in relation to social struggle in Baltimore. Focused on a dual character, window/mirror effect, of an urban mural art, it explores a visual pattern constituted in the canvas, but also how an urban walls changes a sense of place in Baltimore’s broken neighborhoods. It is a visual and ethnographic encounter with urban social ecology as it evolves aesthetics, environmentalism and ethics. The creative and environmental practice in Baltimore, are discussed here in the light of agency claiming right to the city to overcome the experiences of trauma and fear, above all desire for social justice.

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