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Artwork © Maranje AptART is an acronym for Awareness and Prevention Through art. The woman behind this project strongly believes that public art sparks strong conversations and create spaces for disadvantaged communities to express themselves and also could be heard. Samantha Robison studied art and politics at Lewis and Clark College, which is a small liberal arts school. After she graduated, she moved overseas and volunteered and got involved with art projects focused on children. This was just the trigger to keep doing projects around the world and finally create her own. Seven years after, she’s the founder of aptART, a project that brings public art inside the confines of refugee camps, as well as conflict and post conflict zones with the aim of amplifying voices of displaces people. With the strong statement of creating art for everyone, regardless their nationality, race, religion, sex, etc. Montana Cans as a continued supporter of apt- ART had the chance to talk to Samantha, so read it up! Montana Cans: When and how did you started with Apt- Art? Samantha: I started aptART in 2010 along with 3 friends: Leah O’Bryant (activist), Jonathan Darby (artist) and Nick Renn (logistics). In 2012 Jonathan and I were in San Francisco working on an exhibition, we had done with street kids from Congo. We were staying in an apartment across from Jasmin and Falk (Herakut) and they’ve been helping us ever since. We believe all people should have access to art, regardless of their circumstances. We use street art, and all the social and conventional media that goes with it, as a tool to build awareness about issues affecting people’s lives. Our aim is to raise awareness and connecting people, to prevent issues that damage their environment. We mostly work in refugee camps, war zones and post conflict areas. We organize workshops with the community existing around the area to find out what they might like to paint about. After the workshops and discussions, a concept is formulated and we work with the community to paint the wall. We work mostly with kids and youth, but adults are invited too. 137
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Every organisation that was built up on passion and a love of what they do, finds themselves more and more pro-active in their work each year. Montana Cans is no exception as we strive to make the best cans on earth. But that is no excuse to reflect on all the extra curriculum activities like collaborations, festival, project and artist support that happen through the year as well. After all this helped create history. The Montana Cans LOOKBOOK gives an outlet to remember, reflect and reward those who deserve a little extra attention with some extra glow of the spotlight. With great pleasure, we announce the online release of the Montana Cans LOOKBOOK 2019, looking back at some of the highlights of 2019. This edition delves into many projects such as the Montana Cans limited edition cans that featured Mina & Bruce (plus interview), Felipe Pantone, Most and Flying Förtress. We reminisce on the cool collabo's we were involved in with Happy Socks, Good Guy Boris and Reebok Sneakers. We get re-inspired by feature articles on artists IMAGINE, THE LONDON POLICE, FRAU ISA, 1010 and 1UP CREW. We take a look at some of the urban art festivals that raised the bar even higher like METROPOLINK, POW!WOW ROTTERDAM and the THE BERLIN MURAL FESTIVAL. With eyes wide open we scratch under the surface of some alternative disciplines within graffiti culture. The spotlight gets turned on ABSTRACT LETTERING, GRAFFITI ON FREIGHTS and CALLIGRAFFITI. We share some knowledge on the new products like the Montana BLACK INFRA colors and Montana BOLD marker line, which took the industry by storm. Just as the special moment that was the grand opening of the MONTANA STORE VIENNA with our industry partners CONCRETE, did. All this and more over 160 enthralling full color pages.
The new MONTANA-CANS LOOKBOOK 2018 out now featuring special MONTANA-CANS products, brand collaborations, events and artists. At MONTANA-CANS we benefit, as a team and as company, from working closely with creative heads, our friends and partners. In return, it is our pleasure to support events, projects and artists. In our opinion, a fruitful cooperation is the source for creativity, development and growth on all levels. We are fortunate and grateful for the fact that we are approached by artists and collaboration partners alike, who have incredible ideas and inspirations, is something that we are very thankful for. Also check the previous issues MONTANA-CANS LOOKBOOK 2016 and 2017
MONTANA-CANS LOOKBOOK 2017 featuring special MONTANA-CANS products, brand collaborations, events and artists. WWW.MONTANA-CANS.BLOG
For us at MONTANA-CANS, it is immeasurably important to have a close connection to our friends and partners who use our tools. This need for a close correlation has led us to support and sponsor an amazing amount of incredible events and projects, and helped us to establish collaborations with numerous artists, brands and partners. We are grateful to be in a position to be able to provide this kind of support, and thankful for the abundance of inspirations and ideas that artists and collaboration partners from all across the world share with us. We make it a point to feature these projects and collaborations on our blog and and social media channels, but because of the fast-paced hustle and bustle of the internet, we have decided it was time to create a printed collection which contains merely a small fraction of the creative work we have been involved in over the past years. WWW.MONTANA-CANS.COM
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