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Global Graffiti Project: Mural painting by Greek street artist Olga Alexopoulou

Thursday, September 15, 2016
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Note: Exact times Olga Alexopoulou will be painting are TBA.

This project is a partnership between the Institute for the Humanities, Modern Greek Studies, and History of Art. It intends to engage the campus and Ann Arbor community with national and international graffiti artists and their work, offering a global perspective of street art and its importance as a part of public space and discourse within the public sphere.

The Greek capital of Athens is a vibrant cultural hot spot as a result of the financial crisis. Some are calling it the New Berlin, as the next generation of artists and designers are turning to the streets to express social messages.

Greek Artists Olga Alexopoulou and Cacao Rocks will be painting murals on the building façade at Washington and North State. Alexopoulou’s graphic figurative work and Rocks' vibrant cubist influenced imagery represent the diversity of expression in the Greek street art scene.

The project also includes exhibitions, and public lectures and discussions, all free and open to the public.

About the artist: Olga Alexopoulou, [Athenian born 1980], graduate of the Ruskin School of Art of Oxford University. In the last years her works have been exhibited in museums like Nigbo in China and her solo show in the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, her latest solo exhibition at the Museum of Spyros Vasiliou in Athens, but also in galleries around the world. Olga was ‘Artist in Spotlight’ for 2014 at the International Exhibition Tio Ilar Athens and was chosen to represent Greece in the global graffiti event 'She's a Leader' by Women's Forum. She has completed the largest, so far, graffiti in Greece and she was invited to the award winning Street Art Österlen festival, Sweden.
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Panera Building, 777 N. University
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Event Type: Other
Tags: Art, International, Multicultural, Social Impact, Visual Arts
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Institute for the Humanities, History of Art, Modern Greek Program
Upcoming Dates:
Thursday, September 15, 2016 9:00 AM-5:00 PM  (Last)