Here's a super fun walk through Wynwood Walls, which is a museum full of amazing graffiti art in Miami, Florida.
The Wynwood Walls was conceived by the renowned community revitalizer, Tony Goldman in 2009. He was looking for something big to transform the warehouse district of Wynwood, and he arrived at a simple idea: “Wynwood’s large stock of warehouse buildings, all with no windows, would be my giant canvases to bring to them the greatest street art ever seen in one place.”
Starting with the 25th-26th Street complex of six separate buildings, his goal was to create a center where people could gravitate to and explore, and to develop the area’s pedestrian potential.
The Wynwood Walls became a major art statement with Tony’s commitment to graffiti and street art, a genre that he believed was under appreciated and not respected historically. He wanted to give the movement more attention and more respect: “By presenting it in a way that has not been done before, I was able to expose the public to something they had only seen peripherally.”
In 2010, building on the momentum of the year before, Goldman Properties added 10 more artists to their roster of Walls. They opened the Wynwood Doors, Tony Goldman’s nod to traditional portrait galleries, and expanded the mural program outside the Walls.
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0:00 - Highlights and Intro
0:25 - Map and Overview of Walk
2:23 - Start of the walk
2:43 - Be the Change
2:59 - Close-up of the indigenous portraits
3:53 - One of the most famous pieces
4:50 - Recycled plastic sculpture (SUPER COOL!)
6:25 - One of my favorite pieces
6:47 - Back patio area
7:01 - DREAM
8:01 - The Wynwood Walls Shop
8:30 - SpongeBob SquarePants!
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