Urban Heartbeat Competition: Attention All Urban Artists, Designers, Illustrators and Muralists! by Cheyenne Baptiste

Street art is an essential medium for the exchange and connectivity of ideas, art and culture. It is alive and continues to spread throughout cities across the globe.

Urban Heartbeat is a regional project initiated by the Goethe-Institut in Mexico that features various artists from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Now there is an opportunity for you to be a part of it.

Urban Heartbeat will run from February through March and all urban artists, designers, muralists, illustrators, and cartoonists are invited to participate in this exciting competition.

The entry deadline is January 10th 2012. The winning designs will be posted on walls in the streets of all the countries we visit, inspiring the imagination of local artists to share their work with yours giving rise to something new, a unique fusion of styles.

At the same time, in your own country, you will join a group of local artists to create an art space within a neighbourhood using the designs made by artists from the other nations.

In Trinidad and Tobago, Urban Heartbeat is organised by the German Embassy in Port of Spain in partnership with Abovegroup Ogilvy. Stay tuned as we will keep you all updated as we progress. 

Competition:

To sum up the idea of our project: If the jury picks your design, it will be used in every country of the tour to inspire the artists and allows them to involve your design in their own works. On top of that you’ll take part in the realisation of the mural in your hometown. Alongside German artist Jim Avignon and fellow local artists you will exchange and develop ideas and techniques.

After touring the region, the project will end up in Mexico City and subsequently Berlin, where a catalogue of the artwork and designs of all the artists will be presented in “Galerie neurotitan”, a unique space for urban and alternative art.

So what are you waiting for? Send us your proposal on Facebook under “de mi barrio a tu barrio” which is the Spanish name of the project or get more information on http://www.urban-heartbeat.com/

Posted in on 05th Dec 2011