Graffiti and street art have always been a platform for delivering messages of oppression and empowerment. Brazils’ own Anarkia Boladona (aka Panmela Castro) is at the forefront of using art to send the message of the social necessity for human equality, still not in effect in many places throughout the world including her home county.
Achieving a BFA in fine arts and with a masters on the way, Castro’s passion for her country and empowering women combined with a huge talent for creating street art lead to the development of Rede Nami – Feminist Urban Art Network, an organization using graffiti to promote the rights of women. Though started in Brazil, it has spread rapidly gaining world wide recognition and Castro has received many awards for her achievements including Newsweek naming her, along side Hillary Clinton and Gaga, as one of the 150 women to shake the world. In March, she was awarded a DVF award for extraordinary women fighting for social change, five were only given including one to Oprah.
It’s not so long ago that women were almost unknown from the street art movement in Rio De Janeiro, all that is rapidly changing thanks to the incredible work of Castro, she is a role model and inspiration for both women and the street art movement. She contributes beautifully to a positive social change and sets the example of using street art as the tool to achieve this.
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Erin Leigh
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