Swoon is a street artist from New York City who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon, real name Caledonia “Callie” Dance Curry, studied painting at Pratt Institute and started doing street art around 1999. Images and an interview with Swoon can be found here.
In addition to her own art practice, Swoon belongs to several art-making collectives, including the Miss Rockaway Armada. Miss Rockaway Armada is a group of 30 artists and performers who have traveled down the Mississippi, the Hudson, and other rivers in rafts made out of trash.
"The crew can be called many things: artists, musicians, builders, travelers, organizers, dreamers. Ask one of the people who help build and move these crafts for the purpose, though, and you’ll get many answers. But there are some things that we all agree on. We want to create: to invent a new sustainable way to travel, to demonstrate different ways of living and moving that are friendlier to the environment and to each other, to indulge in that essential urge to make something out of nothing. We want to meet people: to learn from new folks along the way, to teach what we know, to share our art, our music and our performance, and to make new friends. Finally, for adventure: to reclaim and reinvent the old American urge to strike out and discover the vast, mysterious land we inhabit and see it for ourselves."
Click here for a slideshow of the Miss Rockaway Armada raft on the Hudson.
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