{"id":1707,"date":"2019-12-03T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altinnov.blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2021-01-12T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:55:22","slug":"street-art-queens-welling-court-mural-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altinnov.blog\/index.php\/en\/2019\/12\/03\/street-art-queens-welling-court-mural-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Street Art in Queens with the Welling Court Mural Project!"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be really honest I was thinking that Brooklyn\u00a0 and the Bushwick Collective<\/a><\/strong> was the indisputable temple of New York Street Art! but that was before visiting the Queens! I have to admit that NYC is much richer in Street Art than you can imagine. Especially after visiting the incredible Welling Court Mural Project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am sure that the Queens is not a neighborhood that you have planned to visit if you are going to New York. Welling Court is a quiet area of \u200b\u200bthe Queens, of course popular, but mostly too quiet! The inhabitants of this district wanted to transform it to make it more pleasant to live … Palisades, sheds, half-destroyed walls, vacant lots and deserted streets, adding up to the absence of a trader … all these factors turned this district as a dead zone. Locals led by Jonathan Ellis decided to meet the Ad Hoc Art association, a sort of almost revolutionary Think Tank that uses art as a tool for social change. The global project was born in 2009. In 2010, more than 40 frescoes had already been made in the neighborhood! Today, more than 150 artists have their signatures on the walls and every year a festival is held in June to make more and more murals!<\/p>