Because public canvases can do a lot more than brighten a wall.
What goes together better than ice cream, sunshine and neighborhood camaraderie? Ice cream, sunshine, neighborhood camaraderie and public art, that's what.
Thanks to Mike Perry -- the illustrator extraordinaire responsible for the "Broad City" intro graphics we've all come to know and love -- public art is getting the neighborhood treatment in New York City.
The artist, working with Pacific Park Arts, recently commissioned the creation of 10 murals near the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights, where Perry's studio is located. Painted in one marathon session along Dean Street (between Vanderbilt and Carlton) this past weekend, the vibrant murals brought not only crowds of illustrators and street artists but a whole block party's worth of onlookers, vendors and community organizers.
