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<strong>Siouxland</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | BEAUTY / 10<br />
Grandview Park water tower<br />
The World Is A Canvas<br />
By Cyndi Hanson<br />
The world is a canvas for Paul Chelstad and Nic<br />
Lucart. Self-described street artists, the pair have enjoyed<br />
the opportunity to create and share their works with the<br />
huge crowds at Saturday in the Park over the last 20+ years.<br />
They are among the many who have painted the former<br />
water tower in Grandview Park.<br />
Paul shares that he learned about graffiti art when was in<br />
New York City in the early 1980s. “A friend moved from Brazil<br />
at the beginning of 80s and he was doing street graffiti in<br />
Sao Paulo. The night he got to New York, through a mutual<br />
friend, I was asked to go with them to stencil. It had never<br />
occurred to me at all because I worked on canvas, but I was<br />
like yeah that would be fun. Once, we got stopped by the<br />
police. We had painted these huge musical instruments in<br />
Little Italy that were so elaborate. They were so impressed<br />
by his stencils that they let us go.” Paul shared with a smile.<br />
Nick’s exposure to street art started here in Sioux City.<br />
“When I was young, I grew up by a train track, so I always<br />
saw graffiti on that. I always had an infinity for it. Then as I<br />
got a little bit older, I got immersed in the hip hop culture.<br />
Graffiti and hip hop go hand in hand, right along with the<br />
skateboard thing. The very bright, illustrative, flashy, look at<br />
me kind of things.”<br />
So how did the two become committed artists for the<br />
Grandview Park water tower? “When I got back to Sioux<br />
Nan, Nick and Paul
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