The Towle Theater's Season Sponsor and huge supporter of the arts, Leon Dombrowski & Seda Turan and Accucraft Imaging are holding a Street Art Festival on June 23-25. Since they have supported us over the past 20 years, we wanted to invite you to support them and meet our new Associate Director, Christopher Place.
The Merge Walls street art festival will take place from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 23; from noon until 10 p.m. Saturday, June 24 and from noon until 5 p.m. Sunday, June 25 outside The Merge Building at 5920 Hohman Ave. at Hohman Avenue and Waltham Street across from Harrison Park in downtown Hammond. The festival will include live mural painting by artists, including some who have exhibited their work nationally or internationally.
It will feature the graffiti artists Felix "Flex" Maldonado, Zor Zor, Zor, Justice Roe, Narrow, Ruben Aguirre, Rise, D’Tel, Kuaze and Nick Fury. Renowned artist Ish Muhammad Nieves serves as the wall coordinator who selected the artists and will also paint.
They will paint colorful murals on the freshly painted exterior of The Merge Building, which will serve as a 12,000-square-foot blank canvas. A shared office, The Merge Building is home to many arts groups and nonprofits like Art BookBinders of America and Books, Brushes & Bands for Education.
