This year Art for After Hours created a special public art piece designed to specifically call attention to the children of people seeking asylum in the United States.
We have personally and socially found the specific treatment of the children being separated from the parents and families especially horrific and a shame upon the United States similar to the Interments of Japanese, Italian, and German Americans in camps during the Second World War.
#Respect #Resist #Remember
(above) 3D street painting artist Anthony Cappetto working on figures of four detained children of parents/family seeking asylum.
Original sketch of ‘Respect Existence’ by Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours.
Artists Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum facing with the drawn children in solidarity.
Above in the work, one sees the four children detained on a metal bench facing the US Flag, upside down, indicating distress. Each child is holding part of a mylar blanket issued to keep them warm, draped over a landscape at the Rio Grande between Mexico and the United States separated from freedom by prison bars.
Beyond the prison bars is a Trump Wall free world with freedom and fairness for all, typically the policy of our Nation of Immigrants.
#Respect #Resist #Remember
Art for After Hours team of Anthony Cappetto with Wendy Stum proudly posing within the 3D street painting art piece ‘Respect Existence’
Prior to our live 3D street painting project, we were developing a 4D animated augmented reality component positioning animated children holding placards of #Respect and #Remember while an ICE guard was programmed to walk menacingly at the base of the art.
This was a moving piece for us and for the Baltimore community. Despite a weekend of inclement weather, sometimes part of live outdoor work; we were proud to share this artistic statement. #Respect #Remember
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist specializing in 3D street art using chalk and paint and founder of Art for After Hours, the first street painting art company in 2001. Cappetto has brought his conceptually 3D street paintings and murals to corporate, exhibition, festival, not for profit, government, non governmental organizations, tradeshows, and private events, and private luxury residences in Europe, Asia, Middle East, North and South America, as well has throughout the USA.
Wendy Stum is Marketing Director of Art for After Hours and assists on public art projects. She is well versed in the street painting art industry working with Art for After Hours since 2001.