Animal Art Crimes
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Founded around 2020 in Denver, Colorado, Animal Art Crimes is a collaborative street art collective celebrating its sixth anniversary this year. Bringing together artists with backgrounds in graffiti, illustration, and the furry fandom, the collective has built a distinctive identity through vibrant animal-themed artwork inspired by both urban street culture and anthropomorphic art.
Their creations include colorful murals, stickers, illustrations, and mixed-media works featuring expressive characters such as bats, hyenas, coyotes, dogs, and many other creatures. Their name is a playful reference to the rebellious spirit traditionally associated with street art, reflected in their motto: "So many walls, so little time..."
At the heart of Animal Art Crimes is a passion for creating art together. Rather than working individually, members frequently collaborate on large-scale pieces, painting side by side and combining their unique styles into a single piece of work. Live painting sessions have become one of the group's trademarks, allowing visitors to experience the creative process as it unfolds while interacting with the artists throughout the event.
Beyond creating artwork, Animal Art Crimes enjoys bringing people together through convention appearances, collaborative projects, and community initiatives. Their work offers a unique blend of furry aesthetics and contemporary street art, making them one of the few collectives to successfully bridge these two creative worlds.
Representing Animal Art Crimes at Eurofurence this year are Domino Twist, Kenket, No Fair, and WopboL. Be sure to stop by and experience their live painting and creative process firsthand at Eurofurence.
Kenket
Yip Yap Yop!
Domino Twist
Roaming cities unexplored, spending days in foliage devoured structures, making unexpected friends in forgotten places; these are a few of the driving forces behind what make graffiti, and the experiences in brings, so enticing. The feeling of a home, work office, or an isolated riverside wall that was once built and inhabited by man now a playground that is yours, even for just a couple of hours, has seduced me into this world. To create for the sake of creating and nothing else, hours of work into imagery that may last a week, until the structure crumbles to dust, or somewhere in between. It’s a performative, self-fulfilling dance that has been taking place in the most forgotten of edifices and perhaps even in clear view right from your city apartment window for decades. Graffiti is just one of many paths that a life of creation has lead me. Almost 20 years in this community of critters, over 10 years of tattooing, and 6 years of Animal Art Crimes with all that it means to be apart of this nebulous conjoining of furry, graffiti, and counter culture. We can never quite expect what life is to bring us, ride the wave when it catches you because the faces you’ll see and the spaces you’ll be are irreplaceable.
-HYENA
No Fair
Who, what, when and where? How do things begin? How do they end? All questions I ask myself, and seems you would like to know too! But before there was, there is.
I first crawled out the cave in New York, where the city ends and the state begins. From the moment you can process what you see, you start to notice graffiti. No matter where you call home in this state you are surrounded by names in places you would never imagine as possible. As I aged I found myself closer and closer to picking up the pen. By the time I hit my teenage years I found myself infatuated with these mysteries, who done did it and how do you get it done. Soon I found myself out on the town, in tunnels, sewers pipes, under the bridges, behind walls, ducking, crawling to the rooftop of apartments I had no lease for, while most people found themselves in bed. From there, it never stopped.
Graffiti has been one of the most influential experiences in my life.
But, why bother?
You risk your freedom, time, money, safety and friends all for what basically amounts to nothing. Graffiti at its core has no benefit to the creator or the surface it is created on. It’s not done for money, not done to get your photo on a wall, but rather, to remember the name and question how someone could even pull off such a stunt. In my opinion, it’s the purest form of art. It evokes a reaction, or an emotion rather, without consent. The viewer of graffiti will have a reaction no matter what. They may love it, they mostly hate it, but they always have an emotion sparked by that, and that’s what I call art.
Without graffiti I wouldn’t be here writing to you. I have met my closest and best friends through it. It builds this special bond because at the end of the day we live a lifestyle that is illegal. Criminal to criminal. And together, they and I have been able to meet every walk of life, live through so many experiences (for better or for worse), and see so much of the world when no one is looking.
Everything good happens coincidentally. I met the Hyena initially over 8 years ago because I had been banned from a local gallery over some graffiti beef. I had found a new street orientated galley shortly after, thanks to Fexazaur, and just by chance that was the night I met the Hyena. From there Hyena introduced me truly to the furry realm (shoutout furpocalypse), and the first person I was introduced to there was the Coyote. From there, the rest is history. With our combined skills, attraction to filth and grime, will to risk it all, and friends met along the way, we made it to today.
WopboL
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