Read and view our 3D mural projects in chalk, paint, and our 4D demos in AR, VR. XR in the US and internationally by internationally recognized 3D artist and 4D Early Adopter, Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours...
Community- 3D Street painting/Chalk Art in a New Time
Hello Everyone,
In times past, street painting or chalk art was publicly seen in good as well as uncertain times.
As everyone knows worldwide we are in the times that are uncertain.
We are choosing to work with clients who partner with art, in our case our 3D art and murals to reach virtually, indoors, and in new ways that are safe for all.
Our thoughts are with our community of New York City and our world for an eventual overcoming and someday thriving world with the pandemic behind us all.
Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum
Art for After Hours 3D Murals and Installations
artforafterhours.com
3D Street Painting Artwork Used in a National Commercial
Over the last summer, Art for After Hours was asked to create a 3D street painting artwork to be used as part of a nationally presented commercial that is now in the public realm.
Our artwork as always, starts with a hand drawn sketch. Many of them were considered; then after refinements from the team, we came up with this idea and we were underway.
During our session, the sketch became a 3D street painting rendered on the surface in chalk.
The final commercial shoot showed the 3D piece in a view which worked with the Director’s vision for the results desired.
Although our portion was for a split second, we were able to be a part of a commercial with an important message and we are proud to be a part of this project. The production team was great and the project was fun as well.
Watch for the commercial in your area to see in full.
3D Outdoor Permanent Mural for Berkeley College, Woodbridge, NJ
First 3D Mural of 2020 - Permanent outdoor mural for Berkeley College in Woodbridge, NJ
3D Outdoor Permanent Mural for Berkeley College, Woodbridge, NJ
Anthony Cappetto posing for scale with 3D Mural measuring 12 feet high by 20 feet long.
Detail of Berkeley College mascot…
Detail of Mascot armor…
Berkeley College mascot nearly 12 feet tall…
Finished outdoor, permanent 3D mural for Berkeley College in Woodbridge New Jersey.
3D Murals, Installations, Interactivity Street Art from Art for After Hours
2018 has been a great year for us taking 3D to the ground, walls, and even ceilings! Here’s some of our favorite pieces from our clients…
'Respect Existence...' 3D Street Art Public Art Installation, Baltimore MD
‘Respect Existence’, was a 3D street art installation completed in Baltimore MD to call attention to the children of parents and family members seeking asylum in the United States but being held in detention facilities similar in principle to the internment camps holding Japanese, Italian, and German Americans during World War II.
(above) 3D street painting artist Anthony Cappetto working on figures of four detained children of parents/family seeking asylum.
Original sketch of ‘Respect Existence’ by Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours.
Artists Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum facing with the drawn children in solidarity.
Above in the work, one sees the four children detained on a metal bench facing the US Flag, upside down, indicating distress. Each child is holding part of a mylar blanket issued to keep them warm, draped over a landscape at the Rio Grande between Mexico and the United States separated from freedom by prison bars.
Beyond the prison bars is a Trump Wall free world with freedom and fairness for all, typically the policy of our Nation of Immigrants.
#Respect #Resist #Remember
Art for After Hours team of Anthony Cappetto with Wendy Stum proudly posing within the 3D street painting art piece ‘Respect Existence’
Prior to our live 3D street painting project, we were developing a 4D animated augmented reality component positioning animated children holding placards of #Respect and #Remember while an ICE guard was programmed to walk menacingly at the base of the art.
This was a moving piece for us and for the Baltimore community. Despite a weekend of inclement weather, sometimes part of live outdoor work; we were proud to share this artistic statement. #Respect #Remember
'Fire Snake in Glass Blocks' - For Entrepreneurs' Organization New York
Our first 3D street painting of 2018, 'Fire Snake in Glass Blocks' for Entrepreneurs' Organization New York.
The piece was done in a few hours in chalk for the family event on the West Side of Manhattan in the Hudson Yards area.
We were turbo charged to share the 3D piece with many young attendees receiving a positive message of achieving the goals and dreams in a fun, family setting.
I am listed as part of the Expo Activities -
Like the ongoing development in the area, Art for After Hours looks forward to creating our 3D and 4D concepts using augmented, virtual, and mixed reality for clients in tradeshows, launches and events - large and small.
3D Street Art Installation for Refugee Awareness - 'Refugee: Here but Not Here...' by Anthony Cappetto (with Wendy Stum) of Art for After Hours
This 3D installation recently completed takes a serious turn to show 3D street art's ability to bring a message to its viewers.
Art for After Hours 3D street artist Anthony Cappetto with Wendy Stum created the art at the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Venice, Florida this year as we have been regular participants since 2010 with many 3D exhibition works. This one was more important to us in its message and delivery.
This is a video clip we did during the event in which Cappetto is blowing bubbles in solidarity with our refugee girl whom an aid worker had given a bottle of soap bubbles to entertain her for a few moments, taking her away from the stark conditions around her.
'Refugee: Here but Not Here...' Anthony Cappetto with Wendy Stum
In the spirit of the Sarasota Chalk Festival's 2017 theme of Evanescence, we present the story of a refugee child. Amidst the rubble and desolation of a stop on her journey, she blows bubbles representing some of the nations with the most dramatic refugee crises. We selected South Sudan, Syria, and Myanmar (Burma). As a child, enjoying for the briefest of moments - a chance to be a child while sharing a message with the viewers. We the viewers hear and read about refugees' plights, but our thoughts move past them as we put down the information and move on with our lives.
They are 'here but not here...'.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D street artist working in chalk, paints, to create thoughtful, conceptual works across the world. Founder of Art for After Hours in 2001, the first professional company designing and creating 3D street painting and mural art for corporate, festival, tradeshows, and exhibitions. Cappetto has brought his work to projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, UAE, India, Japan, Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA.
Cappetto is also an Early Adopter of Immersive and Emerging Technologies such as augmented and virtual reality (4D) as part of his 3D street art installations in the USA and India.
Wendy Stum is Marketing Director of Art for After Hours, an avid member of the street painting art industry, and assist with projects such as these. See more about us on our About page on the Art for After Hours site.
'Fall Pumpkins, Pretzels, and Mason Jars of Beer!' 3D Chalk Art at the Queens Beer Festival, Long Island City, NY
At the LIC Flea & Food space in Long Island City, Queens, NY September 30-October 1, 2017
We were brought in by LIC Flea & Food to bring the 3D chalk art experience to the Long Island City community as part of the Queens Beer Festival.
A fun weekend with 3D chalk art, and a fun festival. How did we get there... Let's see...
Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours beginning the onsite sketching...
All 3D art starts with the sketch... Here's ours...
Our concept sketch for the project...
3D chalk art in the early going... We are big fans of creating our designs live and by hand. For us the art is in the full execution of the work especially for live events as a tool to bring the public into the creation of the art itself.
The pumpkins after enhancing the a rough layout with beautiful, colorful chalk...
Cappetto working on the pretzel...
A daytime picture of the 3D art as completed at the Beer Festival.
Posing atop of the mason jar of beer...
A reverse angle of the same art work where you can see the anamorphic 3D illusion effect. The proportions change dramatically to get the 3D result actually drawn in 2D.
Whether around the world, around the USA, or in our hometown here in NYC, LICtalk to Anthony Cappetto at Art for After Hours for your next 3D chalk/street art concept.
'A Puzzling Reality...' 3D Street Art by Anthony Cappetto at Part of Antwerp Festival in Antwerp, Belgium
I had the pleasure this month to be invited to participate in 'Part of Antwerp', an international art festival as one of a group of top street artists creating 3D street painting at indoor and outdoor locations along the Port of Antwerp. I was the sole American artist participating at the Festival. This is my 3D street art piece - 'A Puzzling Reality...'.
This piece in its concept uses a motif of fading imagery and approach starting with the puzzle itself. Viewers noticed a puzzle piece that had fallen out of the vertical panel which is actually the 'real' of the group of sunflowers in a field with dragon flies under a blue sky with clouds.
The puzzle piece at left falls onto the puzzle on the ground area in front of the vertical while I pick up another piece to put into place.
The puzzle itself fades away into reality in a similar way to different drawn aspects of the art themselves fading from completion such as the sunflowers, leaves in higher detail radiating from the seed centers to the grass at the bottom front of the 3D illusion. The dragon flies, drawn from the standpoint of a graphic complete the connection of the art as a cohesive 3D anamorphic illusion by Cappetto.
3D Street Artist Anthony Cappetto (USA) interviewed by ATV.be as part of artist ensemble at Part of Antwerp Art Festival - September 2017.
Cappetto 'testing' the puzzle piece to make sure it fits... :D
Thank you to my hosts, Part of Antwerp, the Add More Colors Agency, Nele, and the full team who made our artist experience exciting, fun, and fulfilling!
Freedom: A street art statement on political social climate in America by Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum
As created in Baltimore, Maryland, September 2017
'Freedom': 8 feet wide by 16 feet deep. Chalk on pavement at the Little Italy Madonnari Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. Artists: Anthony Cappetto (lead) with Wendy Stum.
In the spirit of moral statements buried in the guise of still life’s in Europe in the 17th-18th centuries, we have designed this piece to make a statement on our current administration.
From a base drawn in the interior samples from Trump Tower NYC Lobby, that is tacky brass, black marble, a bust of what I call the thoughtful (moral) person hovers. The bust is wrapped in 18k gold barbed wire, the left side of the bust has red, white, blue streams following the edge symbolizing America.
The Freedom is expressed with bright butterflies escaping the barbed wire – free expression, the strength of the Constitution and American Principles victorious: free. Breaking free of oppressive thought and behavior this current administration is trying to impose upon the American People.
Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum
Wendy Stum (pictured) refining anamorphically drawn barbed wire as part of 'Freedom'...
The weather was pleasant, allowing us to bring our statement to life... Below are details from the piece...
There is the rough beauty in the art which expresses our message...
All designs done by us begin with a simple yet approved to proceed sketch. This sketch is the one for 'Freedom',
Completed 3D Street Art Piece 'Freedom'.
We felt that in this current social/political climate in America that a statement needed to be made in favor of the true strength of the American People against oppression, many different 'isms', and a recollection of our Nation's true ideals of Optimism and the highest ethical, moral aspects of our People.