Street Art of Wynwood Miami

While street art has influenced popular culture for decades, most cities didn’t embrace it as an art form or as an improvement to the urban landscape. Miami has specialized in stylish innovation for decades. and its support of the street art movement typifies that identity. Wynwood has dramatically transformed to an art, retail, and dining destination for visitors around the world. Rather than looking at the various media under the street art umbrella as blight, the creative community and property developers have carved out swaths of open ‘canvases’ for the artists.

Miami has specialized in stylish innovation for decades and its support of the street art movement typifies that identity. Wynwood has dramatically transformed to an art, retail, and dining destination for visitors around the world.

After the artists and designers established Wynwood as an exciting cultural outpost, early commercial pioneers followed them.

After the artists and designers established Wynwood as an exciting cultural outpost, early commercial pioneers followed them such The Wood Tavern, which served as the go-to late night outpost, Panther Coffee, which became a caffeine-fueled phenomenon that attracted locals and visitors alike, and retail ventures such as Plant the Future established world-class concepts that contributed to the rapid interest that Wynwood achieved.

While the current identity of Wynwood is somewhat polarizing, the most compelling aspect is that unlike virtually anywhere else in the world, street art was embraced, encouraged, and in many cases, protected.

As with the common sequence in urban development as seen in Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Chicago, creative minds were catalysts for the identity of the area. While the current identity of Wynwood is somewhat polarizing, the most compelling aspect is that unlike virtually anywhere else in the world, street art was embraced, encouraged, and in many cases, protected. These efforts may have been noble, or simply strategic, but it is truly a unique result to behold.