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The Durango Telegraph - The independent weekly line on Durango and Beyond.
Aug 3/09 - Durango, CO- Handwriting on the wall Durango Youth Coalition floats idea for graffiti wall SideStory: Container canvases Vandalism or art? The Durango Youth Coalition is currently petitioning the City of Durango to create a graffiti wall. The wall would offer a legal place for graffiti artists to express themselves and contribute a new and unusual piece of public art to the community./Photo by Stephen Eginoire by Stew Mosberg Covering town walls with “legal” graffiti could be a great way to beautify otherwise drab facades. To that end, Riley Neugebauer, founder of the Durango Youth Coalition (DYC) and last April’s “Dawdle” art event, has garnered more than 350 signatures. The DYC is currently petitioning the City of Durango to change ordinances against defacing walls and public property. The City currently believes that “graffiti and related vandalism adversely affect property both public and private,” and considers it to be a “public nuisance.” Undaunted, Neugebauer followed her desire to get community youth involved and provide them with a creative outlet for their energy and self expression. “When given a space,” she wrote in a letter to the Durango Public Arts Commission, “graffiti artists have the time to create beautiful and often colorful imag
New legal wall in Malmø, Sweden.
Sept 3/09 - Legal wall withouth bleed - The writers of Malmø, Sweden got a new legal wall this weekend when the city of Malmø decided to give them a 90 meter long fence at Parkgatan to paint on legally. City officials noted that their experience from the P-Huset Anna legal area in Central Malmø was that legal walls were very popular and that illegal graffiti didn't spread from them!
The Prairie » Blog Archive » One man’s Wall is another man’s canvas.
TSept 10/09 - Texas -One man’s Wall is another man’s canvas 10 There doesn’t seem to be many legal outlets that exist for graffiti artists, but one man not only welcomes this form of art but also encourages it. Attorney Jeff Blackburn of Amarillo offers the outside wall of his business location, at the corner of Madison Street and SW 16th Avenue, as a creative outlet for those who wish to express free speech through the medium of spray painting and drawing. He states that “The Wall” changes constantly and usually has a complete new look every three days.
Gallery welcomes hip-hop heavyweights - Winnipeg Free Press.
Sept 2 /09 - You'd think they were royalty the way they're being treated. But American graffiti gods Cey Adams and Erni Vales, in Winnipeg for a exhibition opening Thursday night, carry a lot of weight in a certain subset of visual art. "They're bigger than the Governor General for us," says Steve Wilson, executive director of Graffiti Gallery, which is hosting the two sultans of spray paint. "These guys hang out with Russell Simmons of Def Jam, Beyoncé and all the stars of hip-hop."
