Based in Baltimore and New York, the street artist known as Gaia completed this piece in Seoul, Korea, in 2010. Image courtesy the artist.
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Episode 34: Calling in from Baltimore, Maryland, the street artist known as Gaia discusses his work with Jeremy Abernathy. (Click here for more photographs at Gaia’s website.) Detailed and dynamic, the conversation comes just in time for Living Walls: The City Speaks, the second annual, international conference on street art and urbanism that returns to Atlanta with events throughout the weekend. Gaia will appear this Saturday, August 13, 2011, as a keynote speaker during the Living Walls Lecture Series at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), as well as the main event at The Goat Farm beginning at 8PM.
