MIlk the Bunny / Je Suis Charlie by Omayra Amador I Photo: PtD 

"As an artist, one must live a life full of pure expression. If we let fear enter, we cease to have a voice," wrote Omayra Amador on her post of with her Milk The Bunny motif donning a pencil. That same day a simple  Je Suis Charlie  banner was seen on Ming Kitchen.  On Sunday, French nationals and supporters marched to Paris Las Vegas, and the resort dimmed the lights of their Eiffel Tower January 8.

Je suis Charlie banner on the wall of Ming I Photo: PtD  

The Las Vegas art and culture community are ready to grab their pitchforks and light torches. The razing of the Blue Angel motel began yesterday morning with assurance by the developer the angel is safe. The Neon Museum is standing by, reports Las Vegas Weekly.

Life-size fiberglass pachyderm was brought into town to star on the Strip over 30 years ago. It ended up a roadside shill for a North Las Vegas auto body shop. The R-J has the details on the 'angry elephant.'

Conservation Lands Foundation field organizer Laura Mistretta is in Las Vegas to lobby for Michael Heizer's  “City” to designated as a national monument, reports Kristen Peterson at Las Vegas Weekly. Mistretta will make a presentation to the Las Vegas Arts Commission January 15 and Fifth Street School January 22. 


Hilary Hunt, also with Conservation Lands Foundation, is scheduled to speak to Clark County Public Art Committee with the same mission on January 27, according to the agenda.

More Heizer: On February 12, The Barrick Museum and Contemporary Arts Center will have a free screening of "Levitated Mass," the Doug Pray documentary about Heizer's 340-ton boulder commute from Riverside County to LACMA.

Below is Jason Umfress' "The Light of the World: The Good Shepard" taken at the Los Angeles Art Show. It's been feeding the Instagram and Tweet accounts of the street art multitudes. 

Post-pop neon signs, public art that kept homeless warm gets an award, and street art for Navajo Nation are some of the field notes about art for the public space of the desert.

Four artists have been selected to serve as Artists-in-Residence in Zion National Park in 2015: Camila Galofre, painter from Ecuador, South America (February 2 – March 3).   2D mixed media from Bowling Green, Kentucky (April 1 – April 30): Benjamin Rusnak, photographer, from Boca Raton, Florida (September 1 – September 30), and  Earnest Ward, art journalist, from Fort Worth, Texas ( October 16 – November 14). 

Street artist / muralist James Marshall ( a.k.a. Dalek) returns to SMoCA for a series of weekend events November 7 and 8

It was "one of the busiest (street art) seasons in the cities history," writes 303 Magazine in their "roundup to celebrate all of the unbelievable murals of 2014."  Denver Street Art of the Season: Part Two.

Repairs to a levee in Pueblo Colorado will take down what Guinness World Records calls "The largest mural in the world." It's been a three mile long concrete canvas for 40 years. The first painting was a fish in a bathtub painted at night back in the 1970s, says local artist and teacher Cynthia Ramu, coordinator of the levee mural for the last two decades.. Plans are being made for new work to be installed after the levee is replaced. Shanna Lewis of Colorado Public Radio reports.

The State Press on ASU student "Clyde" and his un-commissioned large-scale work that seems to win over the neighborhoods. “When the cuardo (painting) appeared it made me happy,” said 64-year-old Rosaria Barrera. “It reminds me of the paredes de las artes (walls of the arts) back home in Mexico. I wish for it to stay.” State Press.

The Painted Desert Project is overseen by Chip Thomas and he is adapting street art to reflect the culture of Navajo Nation in isolated landscape. Artists are invited to an extended stay, compared to the 4 or 5 days of a typical street art  festival, so they can "study their new environment and to fully immerse themselves before conjuring a new work," reports Brooklyn Street Art. More coverage at Beautiful Decay and HuffPo.