UNITE & IGNITE

  • by Stefan Fellechner

Urban Nation is proud to present the 10th edition of our „UNITE & IGNITE“ international Exchange Program.

This special anniversary edition is dedicated to Wall\Therapy Rochester NY!

8 Artists curated by UN Director Yasha Young have been invited to participate and contribute to the program of WALL\THERAPY 2015 curated by Ian Wilson founder, co-curator and Erich Lehman co-curator and lead organiser. Together with their curation of an additional 8 artists we will paint the walls of Rochester City!!!!

The curatorial theme for this year is dedicate to the genre of surrealism and fantasy.

Of course we keep you posted as we kick of the week of painting, collaborations and community programs.

To start things off right and before we hit the streets WALL/THERAPY will be holding it’s inaugural gallery exhibition co-curated by Urban Nation:

Friday June 17th:
IMPACT!

6-9 pm at 1975 Gallery 89 Charlotte Street Rochester, NY

This amazing show will be featuring work from this year’s participating artists:

UN artists 2015:

Andreas Englund
Onur
Wes21
NEVERCREW
VEXTA
Li-Hill
Handiedan
SellFable

WT artists 2015:

Daze
Jeff Soto
Maxx242
Nate Hodge
Eder Muniz
Brittany Williams
Matthew Roberts
Joe Guy Allard

A portions of all sales will go directly to The Synthesis Collaborative to support the IMPACT project!

IMProving Access to Care by Teleradiology – www.impactrad.org.

IMPACT is providing access to better care in underdeveloped regions all over the world through cloud-based x-ray services and a network of volunteer radiologists supporting specific IMPACT sites

This is not only a chance to see the work close up and personal but also to meet the artists before they start painting all around town.

You can preview the show here:

1975ish.com

Sales Inquiries directly to: sales@1975ish.com
Free and open to the public.

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1460196637612900/

Viewing during the week of WALL\THERAPY will be by appointment only the team will be busy out in the streets all week but will return to proper gallery hours as of July 26.

We hope you can join, tag, follow and most of all support this great program!!

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS

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We could not do this without you!!!!!!