West End Street Art Festival founder Jenna Williams shares the motivations for creating Australia's first dedicated festival and market celebrating street art and design.
In 2014 Melbourne released its “Graffiti Management Plan”—first-of-its-kind legislation that distinguished between “unwanted graffiti” and “street art...with the blessing of property owners.”
Lindsey Mancini is an arts accessibility activist and digital strategist studying the essential connectedness—or disconnectedness—between art and community.
She currently works in communications at the Yale School of Art, and teaches as an adjunct professor of contemporary art at Eastern Connecticut State University. In 2017 she earned an MS with distinction in the history of art & design from Pratt Institute, where she wrote her 80-page thesis on street art theory. Lindsey is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Arts, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.