"In the third year of his experiment inviting artists to paint and
wheat-paste in the Navajo Nation, organizer Chip Thomas, whose own
street persona is Jetsonorama, appears to have hit a community service
vein. “The relationship with the community became deeper,” he says as
he relates the integration of some of the artists work relating directly
to the history and the stories people tell in this sunbaked part of
Arizona. More residency than festival, “The Painted Desert Project”
began as a retreat offered to artists Thomas had met through his own
association with Street Art festivals like Open Walls in Baltimore."
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