No doubt, there are a lot of mural festivals; in fact, too many, if you ask me. When the senior center starts taking field trips to see cool new graffiti on the walls of your town’s “old town,” the coolness factor of the mural festival has lost much of its… coolness. With the idea generally being to shine a light on your city via large scale art, once a few dozen walls are covered, what’s really left to do? Enter Blink Cincinnati. Instead of taking over a neighborhood and painting some Instagrammable photo-op backdrops, they decided that 40 continuous blocks and a city-wide visual, experiential showcase spanning two states well into the night is the way to make a statement. I had the opportunity to catch up with Andrew Salzbrun, co-founder of Blink, and Justin Brookhart, executive director of the festival, to chat about what has been and what is meant to be as we inch closer to Blink 2024 this October 17—20, 2024. Read the full article on Juxtapoz