Unfolding Oct. 10-13, the BLINK 2019 art and light festival will span 30 blocks and cross the Ohio River with large-scale projection mapping, murals, interactive light sculptures, live entertainment, a festive parade and more, including a glowing, singing Roebling Bridge.
The fest has just announced the 2019 list of participating muralists and projection mapping organizations.
There will be 16 new murals created for the 2019 festival, overseen by BLINK partner AGAR. The muralists come from eight countries and six U.S. cities.
“We’re excited to bring this diverse and globally renowned group of artists to BLINK. The 16 new murals will join the nine created in Cincinnati’s Findlay Market neighborhood for BLINK in 2017,” said Andrew Salzbrun of AGAR in a release.
There will be 39 projection mappings created by 36 organizations/artists from six countries and seven U.S. cities, including 21 artists from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
“BLINK will feature nearly double the number of projection mappings (20) of 2017, and we’re thrilled that 50 percent of our projection mapping installations are either led by or exclusively produced by female artists,” said Steve McGowan of Brave Berlin, the creative group curating the mappings.
The projection mapping organizations/artists are:
- George Berlin, Chicago
- Blockhouse Media, Bloomington, Indiana
- Brave Berlin, Cincinnati
- Brave Berlin & L4 Studio Cincinnati and Canada
- Brave Berlin & Christian Dallas, Cincinnati and Latonia
- Brave Berlin & Masery Studios, Cincinnati and Boston
- Brave Berlin and Bicicleta Sem Freio, Cincinnati and Portugal
- Brave Berlin and Fifth Third Innovation, Cincinnati
- Brave Berlin and Saya Woolfalk, Cincinnati and New York
- Brave Berlin and Telmo Miel, Cincinnati and Netherlands
- Brave Berlin and The London Police, Cincinnati and England
- Brave Berlin and Xylene, Cincinnati
- Tiffany Carbonneau, New Albany, Indiana
- Cincy Illuminations, Newport
- Crossroads, Cincinnati
- Greg D’Amico, Cincinnati
- Kyle Ebersole, Cincinnati
- Empower, Cincinnati
- Epipheo, Cincinnati
- Faith XLVII & Inka Kendzia, South Africa
- Foster & Flux, Cincinnati
- Christopher Glenn, Cincinnati
- Hambone Collective, Cincinnati
- Chaske Haverkos, Cincinnati
- Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Cincinnati
- Klip Collective, Philadelphia
- Gerhard Koenderink, Cincinnati
- Lisa Koepke & Patrick Down, Cincinnati
- Lightborne, Cincinnati
- Tuesday McGowan & Scott Fredette, Cincinnati
- OBLSK, Worthington, Ohio
- Polymath, Covington
- Sean Van Praag, Cincinnati
- Jason Snell, Cincinnati
- Spotted Yeti Media, Covington
- Judy K Suh, Chicago
The BLINK 2019 muralists are:
- Beau Stanton, New York
- Bikismo, Puerto Rico
- Bordallo II, Portugal
- Elle, New York
- Faith XLVII, South Africa
- Galo, Italy
- Herakut, Germany
- Lindz & Lamb, Denver
- Logan Hicks, New York
- Natalie Rak, Poland
- Royyal Dog, Los Angeles
- Tatiana Suarez, Miami
- Taylor White, Raleigh
- The London Police, Amsterdam
- Vhils, Portugal
- Xylene, Cincinnati
This article appears in Aug 21-28, 2019.