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They are often now populated with commissioned artwork, glass mosaics, stainless and bronze sculptures that sparkle in the deep and dark of the urban night. The gleam of the glass and shine of steel reflects a move towards a city that is polished and rich; clean and content; upwardly mobile and privileged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet the words of the prophets, the youth, the disenfranchised, the struggling &#8211; those who unpack the difficult and thorny issues of identity, race relations, power structures, police brutality, and complex narratives \u2013 still make their way into the public discourse, so often through art. Thankfully, while they are becoming increasingly limited, regulated, and formalized, there are still sacred spaces and places preserved for protest art, for street artists to paint murals, adorn lamp posts with wheat-pastings and speak the aesthetic language of empowerment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creativity and risk taking are at the heart of street art. They are also core qualities we draw upon to build things in our personal and professional lives. Street art stimulates our senses and stirs our emotions: we see, feel and internalize the history, development, core culture, internal ethics, hierarchies and social history related to the craft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These days, though it may not be while I ride the NYC subways, but instead when I wander, camera in hand, around the East Side Gallery in Berlin, through the Wynwood Walls in Miami, across the alleys of Neve Tzedek, along the security border in Bethlehem and through my own yard, looking at the murals that color my world, the prophets speak to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo courtesy of the author, Bushwick, Brooklyn 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