Courtesy Vivian Azalia

"WAKE UP!," reads one of the stickers plastered among a sea of others at last April's STUCK Adhesive Show at the Hangar Gallery. Although the black-on-white sticker is one of the least eccentric in the bunch, it forces the onlooker to pay attention. Which is something Vivian Azalia wants people to start doing, because Miami's sticker movement is growing and the quick stick, mass distribution art form has a lot to say.

This Saturday, STUCK is introducing a new wave of sticker artists that range from local to international and they want the public to join in and slap a few pieces up with them.

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Wallpeople participating in Barcelona

Make it, tape it, and gather for a universal celebration of creative expression. That's what Wallpeople wants you to do.

On Saturday, June 1st, artists in 40 cities across the world will simultaneously turn the walls of their city streets into outdoor pop-up galleries. And yes, that includes Miami.

UPDATE: The Wallpeople venue has changed to Miguel Paredes Studio, 173 NW 23rd St., Miami, due to weather.

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The Dorsch art gallery was the first art exhibition space, among droves that would follow suit, to open in Wynwood. Since its 1991 launch, it has been an influential establishment in the burgeoning art district, and this past Friday, it reopened its doors as Emerson Dorsch, with a pair of incredible exhibits by two divergent talents and a gallery experience that is wholly unique in the area.

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via @OmbrettaAgro

If you're a regular peon who wants to get his art on this weekend, Art Wynwood's doors open for you at noon today. But last night, the elite of Miami's art scene (and their plus-ones) converged upon the fair's tent at Midtown for a swanky sneak peek at what the rest of the city will get to experience this weekend.

But that doesn't mean you can't live vicariously. Art Wynwood's VIP guests shared their favorite works on Twitter and Instagram all night long. Scroll through their best finds after the jump. (We've found it helps to pretend you have a glass of champagne in hand as you go.)

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Ken Hayden

Inside a sprawling white tent in midtown Miami, Jesse Gellar stands atop a riser, his lanky frame clad in a Tyvek suit, his face covered by a black and gray respirator.

The New York-based artist spray-paints his graffiti tag over and over again on massive acrylic sheets that stretch the length of a third of a football field and soar 20 feet into the air.

As varying shades of blue, pink, yellow, and gray cover the clear structure suspended from tent poles, the 32-year-old pauses to inspect his handiwork.

Geller is in town to create a rectangular mural that will hover over the VIP lounge at Art Wynwood, an international contemporary art fair that opens with a ritzy private preview for collectors this Thursday, Valentine's Day, and runs through this weekend. Now in its second year, Art Wynwood is honoring the late Tony Goldman, who helped shape both the Wynwood Arts District and the fair.

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Logan Fazio

Free admission to Art Wynwood? Sweet.

Can you believe it's been just two months since Art Basel Miami Beach? If you love celebrity spotting, ritzy parties, and nonstop traffic congestion, bad news: you still have the better part of a year to wait.

If you're more of a fan of art fairs, on the other hand, this weekend's looking up. Art Wynwood, the Art Miami spinoff fair that launched last year to test the strength of Miami's art scene outside that one infamous week in December, opens its doors for round two this weekend. If it's anything like its 2012 showing, the tent at Midtown will be packed with locals -- artists, gallerists, and yes, you.

We're giving away two pairs of tickets to Art Wynwood this weekend. Find out how to win after the jump.

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Inside the Go!Shop.

Sticker bombing, sticker art, sticker slapping, sticker tagging, slap tagging -- whatever you want to call it, it's coming to Wynwood. The premise is simple: create an image, make it adhesive, and smack it onto a surface of choice. More and more artists are taking to this method of "bombing" as a form of expression because it's clean, fast, and it can end up anywhere. Have sticker; will travel.

Although the practice has a following, Miami's never seen an artist collective specific to the practice. Go! Shop and Wynwood Walls aim to change that with "Go! Sticker: An Adhesive Experience."The event is the first in a series of curated exhibits and projects taking place at the Walls to shed light on street art's ever-evolving culture.

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Daniel Lafuente

In the short amount of time LAB Miami's been around, it's drawn quite a bit of attention -- and not just because it's housed in one of the trippiest buildings in Wynwood.

"Signed our lease in April and officially opened our doors in June of 2012," said Daniel Lafuente, cofounder of LAB.

LAB, which opened in June 2012, bills itself as "a community of entrepreneurs, artists, freelancers, startups, and change-makers who share space and ideas." It's is a place where one feels welcome immediately upon walking inside. So it's not surprising that within a month of opening its doors, LAB had already reached its membership capacity of co-workers in the building's 700 square foot space. But now, says cofounder Daniel Lafuente, the creative community's ideas and like-minded individuals need room to grow, so LAB has relocated and plans to welcome more LABRats (their endearing term for members) than ever before.

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Hawaii's own Estria goin' in

The first Monday after Basel some shop owners woke up feeling grateful that they let great street artists use their walls as canvases. The rest kicked the curb and cursed their graffiti tag-bombed storefronts.

There's no shortage of new paint on the walls around Wynwood, but many old standbys remain. From the fresh to the long-lasting, here are our ten favorites.

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Artists in the 305 are a creative bunch. They find new and unique ways of creating and also performing art, not to mention displaying it. Multimedia artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez has done just that -- projecting her avant garde film project onto the exteriors of houses during Art Basel.

Says Rodriguez, "Miami Remix, a trance film composed of whirling kaleidoscopic mandalas created from hand-drawn and hand-scratched film images of local Miami landscapes, originally made its public debut in 2011 at the main branch of the Miami Beach Public Library, and has been streaming on YouTube for online audiences for over a year. But this year, during Art Basel, the piece [finally came] out of its digital closet and [took] to the streets of the city that inspired it."

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