BLINK announces muralists, projection mapping artists for 2019 event

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Organizers for art festival BLINK announced featured artists at this year’s event Tuesday afternoon in Over-the-Rhine, festival officials said Tuesday.

The art and light display festival, which in 2017 spanned 20 city blocks through OTR and downtown, is scheduled for Oct. 10-13.

Event officials revealed the muralists and projection mapping artists behind this year’s display.

BLINK in 2019 will feature 39 projection mappings created by 36 organizations or artist groups and curated by BLINK partner, Brave Berlin of Cincinnati. The artists come to BLINK from six countries and seven U.S. cities, including 21 from Cincinnati and northern Kentucky.

BLINK 2019 PROJECTION MAPPING ARTISTS AND ARTIST GROUPS

George Berlin, Chicago, IL
Blockhouse Media, Bloomington, IN
Brave Berlin, Cincinnati, OH
Brave Berlin & L4 Studio, Cincinnati, OH and Canada
Brave Berlin & Christian Dallas, Cincinnati, OH and Latonia, KY
Brave Berlin & Masery Studios, Cincinnati, OH and Boston, MA
Brave Berlin and Bicicleta Sem Freio, Cincinnati, OH and Portugal
Brave Berlin and Fifth Third Innovation, Cincinnati, OH
Brave Berlin and Saya Woolfalk, Cincinnati, OH and New York, NY
Brave Berlin and Telmo Miel, Cincinnati, OH and Netherlands
Brave Berlin and The London Police, Cincinnati, OH and Amsterdam
Brave Berlin and Xylene, Cincinnati, OH
Tiffany Carbonneau, New Albany, IN
Cincy Illuminations, Newport, KY
Crossroads, Cincinnati, OH
Greg D’Amico, Cincinnati, OH
Kyle Ebersole, Cincinnati, OH
Empower, Cincinnati, OH
Epipheo, Cincinnati, OH
Faith XLVII & Inka Kendzia, South Africa
Foster & Flux, Cincinnati, OH
Christopher Glenn, Cincinnati, OH
Hambone Collective, Cincinnati, OH
Chaske Haverkos, Cincinnati, OH
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Cincinnati, OH
Klip Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Gerhard Koenderink, Cincinnati, OH
Lisa Koepke & Patrick Down, Cincinnati, OH
Lightborne, Cincinnati, OH
Tuesday McGowan & Scott Fredette, Cincinnati, OH
OBLSK, Worthington, OH
Polymath, Covington, KY
Sean Van Praag, Cincinnati, OH
Jason Snell, Cincinnati, OH
Spotted Yeti Media, Covington, KY
Judy K Suh, Chicago, IL

BLINK 2019 MURALISTS

Beau Stanton, New York, NY
Bikismo, Puerto Rico
Bordalo II, Portugal
Elle, New York
Faith XLVII, South Africa
Galo, Italy
Herakut, Germany
Lindz & Lamb, Denver, CO
Logan Hicks, New York, NY
Natalia Rak, Poland
Royyal Dog, South Korea
Tatiana Suarez, Miami FL
Taylor White, Raleigh, NC
The London Police, Amsterdam
Vhils, Portugal
Xylene Cincinnati, OH
Chinny Bond, Bogota Colombia

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The announcement came two years after 2017′s four-night event where over 1 million visitors came to Cincinnati to see the animated light displays, murals and interactive light sculptures that spanned through the two neighborhoods.

This year a new zone in Covington will also be added.

BLINK is free and open to the public.