Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh on the Power of Street Art as Protest

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Musician Nina Simone once said "an artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times." We're now seeing a reflection of our times -- the fight against racism and inequality -- in works of art on city streets and storefronts across California, as artists paint murals or graffiti remembering George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and declaring "Black Lives Matter." Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh knows the power street art can have in bolstering a social movement. Her international street art campaign "Stop Telling Women to Smile," now a book of the same name, reflected her own experiences with street harassment and became a way to empower other women. We'll talk to Fazlalizadeh about her work, which includes recent murals supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, and the role of street art in protests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.3	Musician Nina Simone once said, an artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect
0:44.3	the times. And on boarded upstorefronts and city streets in many parts of the state,
0:49.1	the struggle for racial justice is on full display, with murals honoring George Floyd,
0:53.5	Brianna Taylor, or declaring
0:55.1	Black Lives Matter. Artist Tatiana Fazla Lizadeh says the power of street art and social movements,
1:02.3	she knows it firsthand. Her own street art campaign against harassers, where she pasted portraits
1:07.4	of women on New York's public walls, included the words, Stop Telling Women to Smile.
1:12.6	And it set off a large response.
1:15.5	We want to hear from you.
1:16.4	Tell us what street art you've been seeing or creating big and small.
1:20.3	And Tatiana Fazla-Laliza Day, thanks so much for joining us.
1:23.7	Sure.
1:24.2	Thank you for having me.
1:25.3	And I'm so glad to have you on because you were scheduled to come on back in mid-March,
1:29.3	and then the pandemic and shutdown changed everything.
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