Fresh off of its premiere engagement in Chicago, Artopia arrives in downtown Phoenix with its signature display of outsized street art blanketing the facade of a recently vacated warehouse. A hint of what is in store comes in the form of a totally realistic 20-foot high spray paint can — a colossal nod to the tool of choice of street artists and muralists. Chicago-based Afrokilla wraps the building’s exterior wall with a Salt River Valley-inspired “Artopia” banner, while the interior of this same wall is adorned with a mural by local legend, San Carlos Apache-Akimel O’odham painter Douglas Miles.
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