On street art, Jonathan Jones (The more satirical street murals are, the less they resemble great art, 5 February) may be correct that urban murals, as an art form, have been a predominantly male phenomenon. He believes we need a female street art star.
In a decade of transition from graffiti to a muralist art tradition, an alternative has emerged in the United States. Rather than there being a focus on an individual star, like Banksy, since 2011 a feminist collective of mural artists from all over the continent has emerged, called Few and Far Women.
They have worked from the Bay Area to Miami, to Hawaii, Costa Rica and the deep midwest, beautifying collaboratively, in projects and cooperative galleries by individual artists – for example, creating walls reacting to Black Lives Matter in Sacramento last year.
Nigel Young
Rylstone, North Yorkshire
