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Whimsical Designs on Bears

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Bearfootin’ Public Art Walk is a whimsical, playful public art display, with the much-loved Bearfootin’ bears of Downtown Hendersonville.

Here are three bears: one with a wolf-themed shawl, another with bright yellow designs, and the last with an abstract painting.

Wolf-themed Shawl on a Black Bear

Bear with Bright Yellow Designs

Abstractly Painted Bear

Painted Bears

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Hendersonville, NC, is home to a Public Art Walk called “Bearfootin’ on Main.” There are usually about 20 bears total each year, and each one gets painted by local artists for great causes. Three styles of bears adorn Main Street each year (a bear on all fours, a mama and baby bear, and a standing bear).

Sky-themed Bear

Mother and Daughter Bears

Bear Carrying Apples

Painting the Bay Bridge

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A painter has a different view and paints the the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It is made up of two bridge segments: a skyway structure/single anchored suspension bridge between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, and a suspension span from the island to San Francisco. 

Painting the Bay Bridge

Philadelphia Street Art

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There’s a softer side to the Philadelphia – City of Brotherly Love — and it can be seen in the innumerable pieces of gleaming glass that comprise Philly’s mosaic art scene. The sparkling, multicolored side of a rowhome will stop you in your tracks. Innumerable tiny mirrors — reflecting the light and surroundings — lay in brightly painted grout, creating large-scale faces and figures. Here is an otherwise nondescript alley in south Philadelphia with many decorative art pieces. We will be posting examples of such art.

Street Art Alley

Colors in Sarchi

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For over 100 years, farms near Sarchi, Costa Rica have been producing some of the country’s best coffee beans. Needing a sturdy way to transport this precious cargo to ports on the coast, a demand for ox-drawn carts was born. The earliest oxcarts of Sarchi dating back to the late 1800s were simple and functional. But as time went on, craftsmen began incorporating their own unique markings to distinguish their carts. By the beginning of the 20th century, competition among artisans was strong, and carts were decorated with elaborate geometric patterns, similar to the designs that can be seen today. An elaborate painted oxcart wheel adds to the colors of Sarchi.

The term “Pura Vida” has been present in Costa Rica’s vocabulary for over 50 years. It’s English translation means “pure life” or “simple life”, however its more then just a phrase- it is a way of life. Costa Ricans (Ticos) use this term to say hello, to say goodbye, to say everything’s great, to say everything’s cool.

Colors in Sarchi