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Title
PHXmuraltour: Exploring the Downtown Street Art
Description
PHXmuraltour is an app for iPhone and Android that guides users through the plethora of mural art in downtown Phoenix. It can be found and downloaded from iTunes and the Android app store. Before the artists began drawing people downtown for events like First Fridays and ArtDetour during the 1980s, Phoenix was notorious for having a deserted city core. The art community brought life, color and vibrancy to the downtown landscape. The website giving more information about the project can be found at http://kristenhwang.com/PHX-mural-tour.html. This project aims to widen the reach of the mural art in downtown Phoenix. Public art has the unique ability to foster a conversation between people who may not think of themselves as art connoisseurs, but like all kinds of art the message can sometimes be mysterious to passersby. Many of the murals downtown portray Hispanic or Native American themes, make political statements, document historic events and people, or serve as visual spice. They are emblems of the values the downtown community identifies with--values like creativity, enterprise, civic responsibility and diversity. This project hopes to make these messages more prominent to people in downtown Phoenix. It is important for the students, workers, shop owners and residents downtown to have the opportunity to learn more about the mural art because the art community surrounding Roosevelt Row played an integral role in shaping the culture and texture of their daily lives.
Date Created
2014-12
Contributors
- Hwang, Kristen Lee Anne (Author)
- Thornton, Leslie (Thesis director)
- Dodge, Nancie (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Earth and Space Exploration (Contributor)
- Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (Contributor)
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Extent
22 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Series
Academic Year 2014-2015
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.26770
Level of coding
minimal
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- 2017-10-30 02:50:57
System Modified
- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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