Windsor Urban Canvas is Ready for Art Week

By Kseniia Semenova

From Oct. 3 until Oct. 10 artists will create their original murals in different locations of Windsor.

Free for All Walls is a collaborative graffiti festival, gathers 63 artists from US, Australia, Canada, and even Cuba. 

The vibrant colours of murals, positive DJ atmosphere, and skateboarders make this festival more inspiring and attractive introducing alternative culture and becoming the most brilliant connection of art and streets.

Industrial Windsor is enhanced like a vault with splendid artistic walls of buildings of old houses that actually let your own walls of imagination disappear and create a new artisan environment. 

 “Daniel Bombardier is a local contemporary street artist who let this festival happen. He is known as Denial. Probably the idea was to create a culture shift,” said Detroit artist, Ghostbeard.“Art brings conversations like this.” 

His animated mural of a car was expressing a story behind it. 

 “I am painting one of my CARtoons from Detroit. This is from 1923, a 100-year-old car,” said Ghostbeard. “So, I think people from my life that passed on the other side have cars.”  

Daniel Bombardier started this art project in 2012 and began in the downtown area of Windsor City.

In 10 years, his creations became a part of the city, like a heartbeat and attract not just tourists but also local citizens.  Residents can admire urban art at more than 20 locations around the city. 

Graffiti became an urban gallery of works from people who bring city a culture shift.