The 25th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA excitedly announces the details of this year’s original art components. This year’s festival will feature live painting on a 360 degree canvas featuring artists such as renowned graffiti writer Man One and Brainfeeder’s Teebs, with more to be announced. The festival with also boast a special collaboration between radio collective dublab and live screenprint artists HIT&RUN to create an interactive, sustainable art installation. There will also be an outdoor art gallery for attendees to view and purchase art provided by LA gallery HVW8 as well as other local LA talent. The VIP and deluxe areas on the grounds will be curated with art created by Think Tank Collective, including live sculpture art in the VIP area. With interactive art throughout the festival, attendees and artists alike will be integral to the atmosphere in JazzReggae Festival’s 25th year.
Man One (manone.com), founder of L.A.’s underground art gallery Crewest (crewest.com) and one of L.A.’s best-known muralists, has been making bold and innovative urban art for over fourteen years. Distinctively daring and vividly colorful, Man One’s murals and designs were cultivated in L.A.’s graffiti art scene with a passion for purpose through aerosol. Man One has been showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Parco Museum in Tokyo. Throughout his successful career, Man One’s designs have been used for feature films and music videos, and have been sought out by MTV, ESPN, and Adidas among many others. Acclaimed worldwide, Man One will display his craft for all in attendance at this year’s festival.
Teebs is most known as a successful electronica artist; signed to Flying Lotus’ record label Brainfeeder (brainfeedersite.com), Teebs is also a member dublab’s radio collective and music group My Hollow Drum, and has been chosen as a Pitchfork top pick electronica artist. However, Teebs is also a talented visual artists with a unique and recognizable style. Known for transforming thrift store-bought record sleeves into energetic and colorful pieces, Teebs’ talent manifests everywhere from walls to canvases.Dublab (dublab.com) has been Independently broadcasting for over a decade, each month over 300,000 international listeners turn to dublab to find a plethora of diverse sounds from world-class djs. With artistic ventures extending to film, art, record, and event production, dublab’s creative collective continues to expand its influence across the world.
HIT+RUN (thehitandrun.com) emerged in 2005 as the brainchild of SoCal artists Brandy Flower and Mike Crivello. HIT+RUN’s trademark live t-shirt screenprinting has risen to fame with their inspired artists and distinct silkscreen designs. In offering clients their own design combinations, HIT&RUN gives their guests complete creative control over their designs.
L.A.-based THINK TANK COLLECTIVE (facebook.com/thinktankcollective) is a group of artists and thinkers that are proactively evolving Los Angeles street art in their urban art gallery, as well as running a production studio and curating shows. Led by John Kennamann, this one-of-a-kind collective fosters a truly participatory environment that promises to engage festival-goers in their distinguished artistic interactions.
Throughout the festival, attendees will be able to enjoy a large outdoor art gallery, featuring various LA artists such as and art provided by LA GalleryHVW8 (www.hvw8.com). HVW8 Art + Design Gallery represents and facilitates the spirit and collaboration between art, music and design. In 1998 Tyler Gibney founded HVW8 and it soon became the premier underground gallery in Los Angeles and over the past three years has featured artists such as Ed Templeton, Mos Def with Cognito, and Charles Munka.
