Kingston, Ulster County

The midtown mural titled “Native Americans Discover Columbus” was created during the 2016 and 7th annual O+ Festival by well known graffiti and mural artist Lady Pink. Her real name is Sandra Fabara and she is popularly known as the “first lady of graffiti.” Starting out in the New York City sub-culture of subway graffiti artist of the early 1980s, she eventually turned to legal art, and now several of her pieces are within the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The O+ festival in Kingston is a 3-day event where artists and musicians exchange their participation for basic health care, dental and wellness services. Billed as “The Art of Medicine for the Medicine of Art”, the growing Kingston event features many forms of art media including paint, sculpture, dance, performance art and music. The first Kingston O+ festival took place in 2010. The most visible aspect of the festival is the large scale murals seen throughout the city.