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The Bomb Squad Art Crew is a group of diverse artists based in Hamilton, Ontario, committed to using street art and other forms of expression to engage the citizen in a unique process of urban renewal.

The group’s work to date has chiefly used diluted tempera and chalk to create vivid cityscapes that truly delight the viewer. Children and adults alike are mesmerized by the pieces, especially when they witness them develop within their midst as often happens with the large scale, multi-artist installations.

But the Crew’s mission is to use a variety of methods, media and art forms to create projects that both entertain and provoke the viewer to reconsider serious cogitations such as urban stratification, revitalization, graffiti and the temporary/permanence dichotomy.

But why the Bomb Squad? And what is the bomb?

“The bomb is the urban situation now,” explains crew leader Sallow Crow (aka Andrew McLean), “and it’s our job to defuse it.”