Artists at Home: Boa Mistura
As part of our Artist at Home series, Open Source Gallery supporter and community member Teresa (Tree) Santamaria conducted an interview with Pablo Arkoh Ferreiro, who previously exhibited at Open Source with the art collective Boa Mistura.
Pablo Arkoh Ferreiro received his degree in fine art with a specialization in graphic design from the Aalto University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He is a calligrapher and typography “freak.” Boa Mistura is a multidisciplinary team with roots in graffiti art. Born in late 2001, Madrid, Spain, Boa Mistura develops their work mainly in the public space. They have carried out projects in South Africa, USA, UK, Brazil, Mexico, Georgia, Chile, Algeria, Norway, Kenya, China, Serbia and Panamá. They understand their work as a tool to transform the street and to create bonds between people. Other members of the collective include Javier Serrano Guerra, Juan Jaume Fernández and Pablo Purón Carrillo.
Teresa R. Santamaria is a practicing internal consultant and relationship manager, currently in the field of large tech installations. Both at work and at home, she is actively committed to her local Community, while ensuring and enjoying relationships to larger global connections. As a Sicilian-American, Teresa has been taught appreciation for one’s own culture, while respecting culture and community appreciation of others, wherever the other is. Her thankfulness to the Arts is because the art space helps us express our human-ness, helps her take stock of our Time and Place, our Yearnings and our constant mandatory Breath. Our family, here in Brooklyn, knows that we must feed, and sustain our community, in the good times and the challenging and works to sustain our precious Brooklyn culture. Teresa is a Board member of the International School of Brooklyn, a member of the Xaverian High School Clipper Association, and a member of Greenwood Cemetery, and a supporter of Open Source Gallery!
REFERENCES:
2:19: Diamond Inside, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011
3:18: Vida, Bogotá, Colombia, 2015
6:54: Spread Love, It’s the Brooklyn Way, New York, USA, 2016
14:25: Respira, Madrid, Spain, 2016
14:50: Living Life Without Fear, New York, USA, 2016
