Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America
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Ramp it Up celebrates the vibrancy, creativity, and controversy of American Indian skate culture. Skateboarding combines demanding physical exertion with design, graphic art, filmmaking, and music to produce a unique and dynamic culture.
The exhibition features rare and archival photographs and film of Native skaters as well as skatedecks from Native companies and contemporary artists.
Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America runs from December 11, 2009 to June 27, 2010 at the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in New York.
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this is insane, Native Americans + Skateboarding = Rad!
1 year ago 3
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It is not vandalism to write graffiti on something you own, especially something small and mobile! Writing graffiti-style art on paper or a skateboard can be an alternative to writing on someone else's building.
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im am a fragua too
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@ianisdead like u can do better
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juliejohnsongold---- well some people appreciate graffiti...graffiti tends to show the reality of our society more than most things, since there is no bias in art. to be honest i dont really feel bad for the people rich enough to own buildings like those downtown in my city, who have to deal with people that graffiti on them. Graffiti is a statement...id say putting up urban art on a cathedral is a pretty bold statement...props to that
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native prise brotha
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what a waste of montana golds his letters were sooo sloppy!!
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The three parts of Hip Hop culture are defined as Rap music, Hip Hop Dance and Grafitti. Encouraging grafitti of any kind encourages grafitti on buildings and private property..the young man mentioned buildings. I've been in Europe and seen grafitti on cathedrals, shrines scenic locations and historic buildings. It is vandalism, pure and simple. Zukiman
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I love the Hair on your head!
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Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America opens today at the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., and is on view through September 13, 2009.
SmithsonianNMAI 2 years ago