174 KWAME’S EYE-PHONE ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY BY CRISTINA DEPTULA
Kwame Acheampong, born in Accra, Ghana, is a passionate photographer and artist who captures his images and communicates his artistry through the lens of his iPhone camera.
182 WAKIMONKEYS! LONGING, WOVEN STRANDS, WOVEN STORIES BY MICHAEL DAKS
As part of the group show at Institut Suedois de Paris from May 14th to August 14th, French artist Côme Touvay showcases five pieces of a series called WAKIMONKEYS
190 ART IS LIFE AND LIFE IS ART BY MICHAEL DAKS
WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE (DAMEON PRIESTLY) BY MICHAEL DAKS Dameon Priestly, the Belfast-born artist, created the artwork for the new album of another Belfast native son, the great man himself, Van Morrison Ashley Adams is a black Latina woman artist and entrepreneur, a SoCal native inspired by nature and her own natural color palette SERGE GAY JR. BY MICHAEL DAKS Serge Gay Jr is a Haitian artist and creative director living in San Francisco, where his murals have garnered much attention LIGHT AS THE ESSENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: THE ART OF CHARLES SCHOENBERGER BY CRISTINA DEPTULA TrooRa Magazine proudly presents its first ever TrooArtist Spotlight Award to photographer Charles Schoenberger, whose art has graced our pages for several years PAINTING THE WORLD ONE STREET AT A TIME BY KATE WINGAR While wall art and drawings have been found in ancient caves dating back thousands of years, modern graffiti first appeared in the subways and streets of New York in the 1970s. Read about artist paintaing the world one street at a time.
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