STREET PAINTING EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS
If you are seeking to have professional street painting artists on hand to create a positive, engaging experience to enhance your existing arts event, Art for After Hours can work closely with you to provide street painting artists and personnel to respond to the public's interest in the live street painting art form. The 3-D street painting art experience is a popular crowd pleaser and source for media attention, as well as the traditional 2-D reproductions of famous and well known art works from history.
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STREET PAINTING FESTIVAL CONSULTING SERVICES
Art for After Hours is uniquely qualified to provide newly developing street painting festivals with the proper consultation and advice to create successful, attractive, and positive street painting events or to existing arts festivals interested in creating a street painting component to their current festivals. Using our approach of performance, blending, and sharing – an Art for After Hours consulting experience will be one that can be as cutting edge or simply traditional as you would like your festival experience to be.
Art for After Hours, through our experience in providing professional street painting talent for corporate events, public and private, in the USA and abroad, can address, and suggest plans of implementation for assisting the client in their street painting festival planning and development, including workshops to teach the basics of street painting to all ages and levels of experience.
Our team consists of:
• Professional street painters with international reputations as featured artists who are experienced with the role of being anchor talents to a new event.
• Industry professionals who have proven experience in festival consulting and advising.
• Project management and coordination by team members experienced in event planning services.
If you are seeking consulting services with the purpose of turning the concept of street painting in your community from a concept to a reality; Art for After Hours will be pleased to explore the possibilities with you. Please send all inquiries to Anthony Cappetto for a prompt response or contact us at (718) 777-5850 at our New York Office.
Below are examples of Art for After Hours artists and principals at work on exhibition projects across the USA and internationally.
Anthony Cappetto poses with his 3D street painting in Greenville, SC - 2010. This street painting, Waterfall, took 3 days to complete for the public exhibition. Size 10' x 14', chalk pastel on concrete. Original design by Anthony Cappetto.
Shawn McCann poses with his 2D street painting in Greenville, SC - 2010. This street painting reproduction of 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' (1886) took 3 days to complete for the public exhibition. Size 10' x 14', chalk pastel on concrete. Original painting by Georges Seurat.
Street painting variation of 'Angels' by Michael Macaulay for Artisphere 2009 in South Carolina. This 9' x 10' street painting took 2 and 1/2 to complete, about 20 hours of work. Detail from 'La Madonna Sistina'; original painting by Raphael.
'Undiscovered' 3D street painting by Michael Macaulay for the "Eye Spy, Playing with Perception" event at the Peabody Essex Museum - Salem, MA - 2010. Size 8' x 8', original design by Michael Macaulay.
Anthony Cappetto's 3D 'Ice Fountain' street painting was 8' x 18' in size and took four days to complete. Anthony was the Special Guest at the Festival which featured many fine performers and entertainers with large, interested crowds averaging 40,000 people daily.
Halloween 2010: Florida, Oct 28th through 31st, 2010: The Art for After Hours team of Anthony Cappetto (lead), Michael Macaulay, and Shawn McCann created a 20 x 40 foot, 3D anamorphic street painting in a four day period with a dramatic Halloween theme called 'Skull Duggery'. No tricks, just treats for the viewers who got to see this being created live!
This 20' x 40' Halloween themed piece was a featured street painting at the festival and took about 100 hours of work total. The Art for After Hours team of Anthony Cappetto (lead), Michael Macaulay, and Shawn McCann created this 3D anamorphic street painting in a four day period with a dramatic Halloween theme. The artists pose with the art work in progress.
Anthony Cappetto's 3D 'Ice Fountain' street painting for the Tempozan World Performance Festival in Japan - 2010. The art was 8' x 18' in size and took four days to complete. Anthony was the Special Guest at the Festival which featured many fine performers and entertainers with crowds averaging 40,000 people daily and thousands lining up to pose on the water spout!
Artist Shawn McCann posing with "The Secrets That We Gather" street painting at Artisphere International Arts Festival in South Carolina - 2011. The street painting is a reproduction of prominent artist Michael Madzo's original art "The Secrets That We Gather" and was the art for the festival poster. Size 10' x 14', 3 days to complete.
3D Street Painting 'Through to the Pacific' by Michael Macaulay and Anthony Cappetto for an exhibition at the Original Western Mass Home & Garden Show. This 3D interpretation of the Currier & Ives lithograph 'Through to the Pacific' tied in with a Currier & Ives exhibition at the Springfield Museum. The playful twist of the train coming out of the picture and the dimension of the wooden frame made the art a big traffic draw for the public. This street painting was created indoors on a 15' x 20' platform and took the two artists 3 1/2 days to complete - 2011.
Artist Anthony Cappetto poses with 'Barefoot in the Park' a 3D street painting for the Barefoot in the Park arts festival in Georgia - 2011. The park below is flanked by a waterfall at the left and a colorful cliff at the right. Size 16' x 30'.
3D street painting 'View from the Butte' by Shawn McCann for the Capital A’Fair in Bismarck, ND - 2010. Size 10' x 15', 2 days to complete. This art was created on the Capitol grounds of North Dakota and many people watched Shawn work over the two days, then posed on the butte. North Dakota is known for it's majestic scenery, including buttes. Original design by Shawn McCann.
ART for AFTER HOURS:3D/AR Chalk Art Experiences – Performance,Blending,Sharing
Artist Shawn McCann's 'Moving Down the Mississippi' integrated 3D street painting and vertical chalk art wall for the opening of the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN - Oct. 2011. 10' x 16', 2 days to complete.
Above Right: Anthony Cappetto with his completed 3D street painting 'Cityscape', which took approximately 30 hours to complete for IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India.
