Nicolina ART

Nicolina maintains a home-base in New York City's East Village and travels often, spreading her art around world. She specializes in guerrilla street art, vibrant murals, collaborative painting projects and interactive performance-art spectacles. Hearts of the World, her ongoing international art project, brings art to underprivileged children who might not otherwise have the opportunity to express themselves creatively. She is also the founder of the Free Art Society, an artist alliance dedicated to shifting the ownership of art out of walled institutions and into the everyday public realm.

Go to Nicolina's website:
www.NicolinaART.com

Harbor days and Copacabana nights

It’s the end of a long day painting at the harbor followed by an inspiring night in Copacabana.

Finishing a day of painting at the square. ~FlutuArte!

It’s 4am and storming here in Rio de Janeiro as I zoom down Avenida Atlantica along Ipanema beach in the back of a dark taxi van filled with empty seats and me.

I am coming from a new friends house, a girl named Perola whom I deeply admire. I spent the evening with her and a few of her eclectic friends in an apartment in Copacabana, singing, playing music and practicing Portuguese. Perola’s artwork is like something out of the renaissance era. She can sing like a both a haunting ghost and a glorious angel and she has a special spark of infectious glee. She will be painting a boat for FlutuArte, the floating gallery project which I am working on every day with Maxine Nienow among other collaborators.

We just launched the website today: www.FlutuArte.com

Pérola M. Bonfanti, a local artist participating in the FlutuArte project
(Photo by: Cintia Pimentel)
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