Canvas Detroit

Canvas Detroit could have easily just have been a photo book of Detroit street art. Instead, designer Julie Pincus and author Nichole Christian were determined to tell the stories of the people behind the art, as well as their individual motives. Some simply aim to make Detroit’s cityscape a more visually appealing place — such as the Detroit Beautification Project, helmed by Matthew Eaton; that effort brought in some of graffiti art’s biggest names from all over the world to transform the walls of Detroit and Hamtramck with top-notch street art. Others are less concerned with beauty and more concerned with making a political statement, like Tyree Guyton, who could be considered the godfather of using Detroit’s blight as art, covering an entire neighborhood in polka dots, stuffed animals, and more since the ’80s.





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