If you’ve always wanted your art to be really seen - like hanging up there in the sky - the area Allied Artists group and FestivALL Charleston have a contest for you.

First, the prize: it’s $500, and then there’s the exposure. Your work (which can be a painting, photograph or any artistic image) will be blown up 10-feet high and 25-feet wide and mounted this June and during the city’s FestivALL arts and culture event at the top of the Mountaineer Expedite Building (the former Purity Baking building) at 1007 Bigley Place. (more…)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is cross-post of artistic interest from over at the DowntownWV photoblog:

Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker Deville

This Thursday, be a streetwalker (it’s only a crime if you charge money) at this month’s ArtWalk at gallery spaces around downtown Charleston, including now The Clay Center (for more details, see the ArtWalk website). Above is a shot I took on behalf of a bad pun from an ArtWalk last Fall. We’re looking at the Blue Door Studio of Mark Tobin Moore. Below is a very cool artwork by Moore (that’s him on the right, not on the wall). Senor Moore, please tell us the backstory behind your artwork below. | Walker DeVille

Someone passed along this video of an uber-prank and masterful piece of large-scale performance art in New York City’s Grand Central Station. Got an art-related video, article or image you’d like to see on ArtAttack? Send suggestions to: douglas @cnpapers.com.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a cross-post from the DowntownWV photoblog, since, well, you just don’t find much graffiti made out of yarn.

Guest Photo by Minni Purl (or accomplice)

You’ve got your crappy graffiti and taggers splashing slapdash signatures and IDs willy-nilly on walls, marking their spot like dogs peeing on a post. You’ve got your more sophisticated graffitarians, painting mini-masterpieces on the sides of train cars, city walls and abandoned warehouses. You’ve got your major international street artists like Bansky.

Then, there’s Charleston’s own odd iteration of the form – and possibly the world’s only knitwear graffiti artist — Minni Purl. I will leave for others to delve into the strange psychology of someone sitting at home, knitting stuff, then mounting it in the dead of the night, thence to e-mail out photos to the local media. I had these photos forwarded to me and pass them on. If copycat graffiti knitwear starts appearing in your neighborhood, don’t blame me. But if they ask for an ID the next time you try to buy yarn, I’d take it up with Minni. | Walker DeVille