ART IN THE STREETS

ART IN THE STREETS

Jammin' with JOY at MOCA's ART IN THE STREETS
Photos of drummer Joy by Stephanie Buffington (c)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A.

On closing day, 8-8-11, 8,424 visitors attended, and I was there!

It was FUN DRUM time for me.

Photos of drummer Joy by Stephanie Buffington (c)

http://www.moca.org/pdf/press/Art_in_the_Streets_Record_Attendance_Release_.pdf

Museuming with my 'Sista'

Photos & collage by Joy Krauthammer (c)

After spending a day with 'sista' Faye
 to view Tim Burton's wild, imaginative characters at LACMA,*
and enjoying his Hansel & Gretel fun animated movie,
making sure we arrived from far away
at the museum the moment it opened,

we then drove miles east on 6th Street all the way downtown to MOCA,*
in LA's rush hour to see
ART IN THE STREETS.

MOCA would close in less than an hour, 5 pm,
and the ticketless line went around the corner.

It was the last day, the last hour, and with intentional power,
WE MADE IT!

I loved finding a parking space only two blocks away from MOCA,
(thank you Parking Angels)

after sista navigated us perfectly to downtown.
(Parking was half block from LACMA!)

I loved the huge cross-cultural crowds filling the galleries;
8,424 visitors that one last day.
I loved that in every direction, there were a zillion cameras being used;
So many people with cameras and phones.

Out came my camera!
(Enjoy my Graffiti collage.)

I loved the painted red real ice cream truck inside MOCA.
(My camera censored one side of artistic truck.)
When I was a child, the white Good Humor truck in NY, did not have graffiti.

On MOCA shelves, I loved the rows and rows of paint cans.

On walls, I love the anti-graffiti posters.

I, too, am a graffiti artist.
I loved wall filled with LOST dog signs.
(Where the animals found?)

I loved the ceiling-high comical sculptures which sista Faye pointed out to me.

I loved lady visitor with red hair.
(At times mine is sparkly purple.)
I loved walking upstairs on the ramp,
 and looking down and surprised to see
a lady standing at a grimy sink in a dark alley inside.
She didn't see me.

I loved the huge murals painted by now renowned, graffiti artists.

I loved it that my sista wanted me to photograph the inside street art

otherwise,
 I probably would not have created this photo collage,
ART IN THE STREETS.

Faye's high school students would enjoy my photos, she said,
 and she'll hang them in the class room.
(Costly posters would be torn, taken.)

Outside MOCA

I loved the green sprouts growing on back of a red bike.

I loved the vegetable farm where the bike was parked.
(Do downtown's homeless eat the veggies?)

There were two 'gourmet' food trucks.
(Many more outside LACMA.)

I loved the countless, long colorful cloth and thin paper ribbons,
heart-felt messages filled with blesSings and prayers,
swaying in the breeze

hanging from the trees
in Little Tokyo, across the street.
We happily recognized the outdoor eatery we ate at last time.
Sitting by an outdoor sculpture
watching a child playing upon it, singing to herself,

I loved eating Japanese spirulina green pastries with Sista,
delaying our trip home, whiling away time.

I loved the easier rush-hour drive home.

I loved celebrating ART IN THE STREETS,
and TIM BURTON
with my sister Faye,
on a beautiful summer day,
knowing this week, she begins again to teach school.
Her fall semester beginning.
Together we shared the last day of the summer show!
And two musuems in one trip to LA!

Oh, yes, I LOVED my fun drum playing at MOCA. (see photos.)
I became, Art In The Streets
or
was I already?
(What do you think?
Add YOUR Graffiti COMMENT below.)
:)
- Joy Krauthammer


* LACMA / LA County Museum of Art
* MOCA / Museum of Contemporary Art


PS
Accompanying MOCA's ART IN THE STREETS show has been an internet web happening, 
the RED STICKER CAMPAIGN.
Enjoy some of my personal GRAFFITI submissions.
Because of this web happening of community's involvement as "curator for a day", I need to admit that in photographing ART IN THE STREETS, I censored what I photographed, so no one would be uncomfortable in viewing my photographs.
(The other side of the red ICE CREAM truck in not in my collage.) - Joy


http://joys-prose.blogspot.com/2004/05/universal-peace-love-joy.html

from RED STICKER Campaign GALLERY  http://www.MOCA-latte.org
On 04.21.11 moca-latte wrote these pithy words; 

Approved

by ‘curator for a day’ chopstick sidewalk graffiti sentiments & artistry 

UNIVERSAL PEACE LOVE JOY LA

(by a sixties’ flower child) photo by Joy Krauthammer ©.

for commentary see :

http://moca-latte.org/archives/514#comments
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The local Valley adult school principal had just announced that they had been vandalized with Graffiti.

To congratulate the school’s computer teacher on recognition she just received, the students from many cultures and countries did their own style of Graffiti in many languages, not on the computer, but where all could see it. 

The sentiments were APPROVED by Joy!

photo by Joy Krauthammer ©

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