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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Oct 27, 20224 min read
Amsterdam's "Surround Sound"
What is Surround Sound? In 2021 Street Art Museum Amsterdam commissioned Kenor (ES) to co-create the Surround Sound - a participatory...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Oct 19, 20224 min read
"Women Role Models" with Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Serbia
Somewhere in 2021, Nevena Nikolic - Policy Officer, Culture, Media and Public Diplomacy - of the Dutch Embassy in Serbia contacted SAMA...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Oct 12, 20224 min read
Hello, I am KatarÃna Magdiaková!
Where are you from? What are you doing in Amsterdam? I come from village in northern Slovakia, called Zákamenné, surrounded by hills and...
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Anna Stolyarova
Oct 2, 20221 min read
Asphalt Art - The Basket of VU
What started as a question e-mail in April, ended up as a glittering new Basketball floor by the end of August 2022: For the VU Bachelor...
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Anna Stolyarova
Sep 9, 20224 min read
Stramurales & Discovering Puglia
In June 2022, SAMA have received an invitation from Stornara Life Aps to join the association in sharing their experience in Europe and...
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Anna Stolyarova
Sep 5, 20222 min read
Sorry, Not Sorry in Gent
Earlier this year, SAMA had received an invitation from "Sorry, Not Sorry" #streetartfestival in Gent, Belgium, to be a guest speaker for...
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Leonie Wingen
Sep 1, 20223 min read
Street Art & Democracy - Closing Article
The project Street Art & Democracy has come to an end, but the dialogue on street art doesn’t end here. Let’s look back at what we did:...
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Leonie Wingen
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Street Art & Democracy – Impact
Researching the role of street art in an urban environment for the project ‘Street Art & Democracy’, we asked different stakeholders to...
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Anna Stolyarova
Aug 1, 20224 min read
"Life is a Dream" by Pez & Chicadania
Local active residents Wahib O. met SAMA in the summer of 2021, when an awarded Privacy Project was being fulfilled by local artist NOL....
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jul 15, 20224 min read
Street Art & Democracy - The Galleries
Just like many urban cities in Europe, Covid not only brought devastation but also boredom to Amsterdam. So now that everything has been...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jul 13, 20224 min read
Spread the Sofreh: A Dinner for Arts and Connection
Last week, on behalf of SAMA, I went to a dinner held around a sofreh for about twenty people who work in the arts in primarily Amsterdam...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jul 12, 20223 min read
Virtual Reality and the SAMA Collection
The SAMA Collection counts over 300 art pieces, and is still growing. Because street art is in principle temporary in nature, the digital...
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Anna Stolyarova
Jul 8, 20222 min read
The Flying Dutchman by Surfing4Art
I first bumped into Tim Rodermans in a back yard of Amsterdam West Taal school in a spring of this year, whilst collecting signatures for...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jul 8, 20224 min read
The Springboard: The Start of Street Art Museum Amsterdam
It all began with an extra bed to crash on. In 2010, Amsterdam Street Art hosted Amsterdam’s first street art festival. Anna, founder of...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jun 29, 20225 min read
A Site Visit to Kröller-Müller Museum: What I Learned About Community Engagement
Drenched in rain, lost in the Netherlands’ largest national park, I was quickly pedaling on a gear-less little white bike. After only...
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Leonie Wingen
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Street Art & Democracy – The Interviews
For our exhibition and publication ‘Street Art & Democracy’, SAMA researched the position of street art in today’s Amsterdam. We...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Amsterdam For Free
The covid count is staying low, masks are off, but access to activities still comes with a price. What can you do for free in Amsterdam?...
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Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jun 15, 20224 min read
Spray Paint, Hiphop, and Youth: Welcome to the MooiMakers
Located at a playground in the heart of an apartment complex, little faces begin peaking from their balcony ledges at the scene below....
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Abby Golden
Jun 9, 20224 min read
Howdy, this is Abby Golden!
Where are you from? What are you doing in Amsterdam? I am from Florida, United States and am a rising senior at Smith College in...
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Leonie Wingen
Jun 1, 20222 min read
Street Art & Democracy - Now open!
Street art has an undeniable presence in Amsterdam. In the exhibition and publication Street Art & Democracy we look back at the first...
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