Howlin’ Wolf
by Toxicomano Callerjo
2nd and Yazoo
Howlin’ Wolf by Toxicomano Callerjo. A portrait of one of the blues greats who used to perform regularly around Clarksdale and worked on some of the farms in the area when he was young (Hopson for instance.) His mother also lived in Clarksdale.
Toxicomano is from Bogota, Colombia and is world famous with work included in museum and gallery collections and on walls in Europe, all over Latin America, the U.S. and Asia. He came to Clarksdale for the 2019 Paint the Town event from Barcelona, Spain.
The Song
by Rebeka Skela
2nd St. and Yazoo
According to the artist: "A crow is a traveler, a being of life and death. His raucous song opens the gates to understanding the soul. Always a friend never a foe." Skela lives in New Orleans, is originally from France but has lived all over the world and painted walls in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia. She works entirely free-hand with spray cans of paint. (Although she will use tape to make her straight lines.)
Jasmine Jackson
by DJ Lu
2nd St. and Yazoo
Part of an ongoing international series by the artist that he calls “Street Heroes.” The idea is to showcase and celebrate everyday people who don’t tend to get a lot of acknowledgment in their daily lives. Ms. Jackson is a Clarksdale native, a single mother, who works at McDonald’s. The artist selected her after seeing a photograph of her and liking her face.
DJ Lu is another internationally acclaimed artist whose work appears in museums and on city walls all over Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Asia. He has a day job as a professor of architecture at a university in Bogota, Colombia. He uses the stencil technique to make his art and has said: “I’m an architect. I can’t draw. I need the tools.”