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Author / photographer / poet Kurt Boone presents “Photographs of Jersey City Mural Festival” exhibition now at the Commuter Gallery located at the Journal Square PATH station in New Jersey. The exhibit includes 20 images from the June 2021 inaugural JCMF which featured 75 local and international street artists and was designed to support small businesses across Hudson County that were adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday March 18 @ 5:30pm Boone will discuss the global street art movement with. UP Magazine (upmag.com) Editor in Chief T.K.Mills. Then on Saturday, March 26 @ 2:00pm Kurt, who has chronicled New York City street culture, the bike messenger lifestyle and graffiti arts in over 20 books, talks with mural artists SULE and Manuel “The Creator” Pulla of the Soho Renaissance Factory. Boone’s books are available at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art Library, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society and Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture among other libraries and are sold at many bookstores. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 3-8pm, Saturday from 11am-6pm and Sunday from noon through 5pm. The exhibit is organized by Jersey City Mural Arts Program (jcmap.org) a nine-year-old Mayor’s office initiative “that links established and emerging local, national and international mural artists with property owners city-wide as part of an innovative beautification program that reduces graffiti, engages local residents and is transforming Jersey City into an outdoor art gallery.” For additional JCMAP, information, contact Deputy Director Claudia Ciaccio at: cciaccio@jcnj.org. For information on Boone’s other projects, go to: kurtboonebooks.com