Art Film for January

Our New Year will begin with the showing of the international graffiti documentary film Bomb It! on January 9th Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. in the Vineyard Center. This film was a highly regarded 2007 Tribecca Film Festival Candidate. Throughout the film, graffiti artists challenge the viewer about the use of public space and the legitimacy of the counter culture messages. We get to hear and see motivations of the graffiti artists themselves in their own words.  From illegal  street “bombing” to getting six figure commissions from major museums, such as the Louvre, MET, Whitney, Groningen and others, we will be invited to determine what constitutes art and/or a “nuisance”. Brown University graffiti researcher Stefano E. Bloch and Director/Producer Jon Reiss fill in some extra background.

Women artists such as Lady Pink of LA, Tracy 168 of Brooklyn, Faith47 of South Africa and the Godmother of Japanese graffiti BELx2 are interviewed as well as many more artists are shown from around the world. This is a media where politics are banned, artists are arrested, even killed and a few rewarded. Their stories are riveting.

Join us January 9th Tuesday at the Vineyard Center at 7:00 P.M.  We will have a lively discussion afterward.  What are the limits to public art?  What is art? Let's talk!

Presented by the Villages Arts and Crafts Association

                                                                                                                                       By Pam Oliver Lyons