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Street Art: If the Public Owns the Wall, Does It Get a Say in the Pictures?

Marni Soupcoff | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada
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Marni Soupcoff

Street art can bring vitality to a corner or neighbourhood. But who gets to decide what form the art will take? In the latest installment of our "Change My Mind" series, HuffPost asked an artist and a community leader to debate the statement: Government should keep its nose out of artistic expression, even in public spaces.

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ChangeMaker: How One Artist Made His Mark

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 12.16.2012 | Canada Impact
Read More: Kielburger, Empowering Youth, Graffiti, Free the Children, Artists, Changemakers, Inuit, Nuschool Design Agency, We to Me, Canada Impact News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

It was an urban restlessness that first drove graphic artist and Toronto native Jonathan Cruz to explore the far reaches of Canada's North. It was the simple pleasure of eating a hardboiled egg that compelled him to stay. But we'll get to that. The 30-year-old founder of Iqaluit-based Nuschool Design Agency, a multidisciplinary graphic design studio, has literally made his mark all over Canada.

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