Coming up tomorrow in #Gainesville #Florida • #repost via @gaiastreetart ・・・ 'Street Art' came with a promise and the illusion of social justice and resistance. It has grown into a movement defined by the legal mural and is no longer recognized for its illegal nature. Throughout the years, fledgling street art projects have matured from the grassroots into the herald of reinvestment/gentrification, dovetailing with larger strategies such as 'creative placemaking'. These street art projects have established new boundaries of exclusion as well as an uneven privileging of the international versus the local. In the Americas, this Eurocentric phenomenon of the street art festival has collided with communities of color who feel as if this new regime is encroaching upon the cultural character and socioeconomic realities of their neighborhoods. The mural has emerged as a site of contemporary conflict rather than consensus, and all over the United States there has been backlash to the Street Art model of producing public art. This conversation with artists, activists and curators from Baltimore, Newark, Atlanta and Gainesville seeks to document this growing divide between the outsider and the native. Stay tuned for documentation of the event and a link on my Facebook page for live streaming from the #CivicMediaCenter . This panel discussion is apart of a week of programming in conjunction with @352walls and University of Florida that includes new public art, lectures and workshops. Testimonies from @monxcampana @layqanunayawar @mia_musa_ , Faye Williams and Turbado Marabuou (at Civic Media Center)