MONTANA-CANS LOOKBOOK 2017

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LOOKBOOK 017 follow the event on: instagram.com/powwowworldwide montana-cans.blog/pow!wow! @powwowworldwide Spreading urban art all over the world is a goal for many urban art movements. The one we’d like to feature here is very close to our hearts. POW! WOW! is an urban art movement that originated in Honolulu, Hawaii and is organized by a global art network. Starting as an annual event, the POW! WOW! Hawaii festival has featured a huge roster and a broad range of top notch urban artists from all over the world. The collective of artists responsible for the festival have formed a global network, organizing street art events across the globe in other locations such as Taiwan, Long Beach, Israel, Singapore, Jamaica, Washington D.C., Guam, New Zealand, Germany among others. The 2016 POW! WOW! was busy in 7 different locations - starting off with the POW! WOW! Hawaii festival. Over a hundred artists, musicians, photographers and media partners got together to celebrate mutual creativity. The festival began on the 6th with the Opening Block Party presented by POW! WOW! and Night Market. The following days were packed with showcases, exhibitions, 1-2-1 talks and of course a lot of mural-painting action. Artists like Risk, Pantone, 1010 and Bicicleta Sem Freio were spreading their creative energy all over Kaka’ako, further contributing to the growing mural scene. This year the festival was closed off with a new climax: the „stranded in paradise“ concert on Saturday, February 13th, which featured The Green, DJ Babu and Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples, Cipha Sounds and many more. In March, a collaboration was formed which led POW! WOW! to the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas. This combination of music and urban art has always fueled POW! WOW! in the past. Quite a few local artists were thrown into a mix of visiting artists, including Kamea Hadar, co-founder of POW WOW!. 31