I was honored to be asked to Bisbee, Arizona to be part of the Artemizia Foundation by creating two permanent murals. I am very impressed by how vast and diverse the collection is there and the generous humanity within all of the work. One of the things that I love about street art is that it’s shared generously with the public, so that spirit seems to be imbued in this collection.
My new murals at Artemizia Foundation were inspired by talking to Sloane Bouchever, the director and founder of the museum, about our shared philosophies. The idea of peace and equality, empowering female artists are some of the themes that resonated. There are many female artists represented in this collection, so I chose to do a portrait of Nadya Tolokonnikova from Pussy Riot, who is a close friend and someone that I admire very much for her creativity, her activism, her courage, and her use of every tool at her disposal to push for things to be more just and more fair.
