Sat 2/19 @ 6-10:30PM
Local nonprofit Graffiti HeArt has done amazing things to transform the Cleveland landscape. In 2020, it brightened the dark pandemic summer of 2020, with its endless stream of event cancellations, by bringing in mural artist Beau Stanton to spend a week painting a large-scale work on a wall behind its rainbow-colored building on Superior at East 49th Street, and inviting people to come together — socially distanced and masked — to watch.
Last summer, it brought home northeast Ohio native WRDSMITH to spend a week in August (a very hot week!) painting 15 murals all over town from all wall behind Cleveland Institute of Art to the Red Line Greenway to a giant mural on Payne Avenue overlooking the Inner Belt dedicated to the recently departed Cleveland music icon Michael Stanley. And it has a team of local artists of diverse ages, races and genders who have decorated countless walls around town.
Among the goals of Graffiti HeArt, in addition to hooking up artists with paying jobs, is to award scholarships to promising young artists. That’s the basis of its annual Graffiti & Grapes Scholarship Fundraiser, which will be held at Graffiti HeArt’s own building.
There’ll be lots of live painting going on by artists Don’t Panic, Faderesistantartist, SWIM, Eileen Dorsey and Garrett Weider, live music, a silent auction featuring more than 40 items including original art, music, food and lots more.
Tickets are $50 and $125 You can get them here.
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