"We had a building that was severely damaged by fire-the boards covering the windows got tagged hard with ugly graffiti. We (City of MKE) recruited some volunteers, painted the boards light gray. The owner let local artists do murals on the repainted boards, and the tagging in now nearly non-existent."
A success story from one of our 2013 Zero Graffiti International Conference attendees, David Weber from Milwaukee. This is just one of the many stories you could hear about if/when you come to the conference!
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Intertesting article about how graffiti is making it's way into galleries, but at one point, I was shaking my head. The curator states “My initial reaction was, well, this isn’t really art. And then I kept going back and thinking, why isn’t it art?"
Well, because it's vandalism! To read the full article, click here! Got a question? Have a story to share? Contact us anytime! Call, email, write a letter, send out the pony express or a smoke signal, whatever it takes. We are the graffiti abatement pro's. Check out our Twitter and Facebook pages too! From a group that claims to "rejuvenate" the community with their murals but in this case did uncommissioned work.
It happens more often than you think. However, this mural was up for 10 years before the next door neighbor decided to give it a fresh coat of paint!
To read the full article, click here! Got a question? Have a story to share? Contact us anytime! Call, email, write a letter, send out the pony express or a smoke signal, whatever it takes. We are the graffiti abatement pro's. Check out our Twitter and Facebook pages too! Leave it to the French to come up with this new way of graffiti art.
To read the full article, click here! Got a question? Have a story to share? Contact us anytime! Call, email, write a letter, send out the pony express or a smoke signal, whatever it takes. We are the graffiti abatement pro's. Check out our Twitter and Facebook pages too! I bet every city wishes they had hundreds of volunteers to help paint over graffiti like Casa Granda, Arizona!
To read the full article, click here! Got a question? Have a story to share? Contact us anytime! Call, email, write a letter, send out the pony express or a smoke signal, whatever it takes. We are the graffiti abatement pro's. Check out our Twitter and Facebook pages too! Oakland is one of the worst cities for graffiti vandalism. They have a great program but it's just not enough to keep up. Hopefully this new ordinance will help.
To read the full article, click here! Got a question? Have a story to share? Contact us anytime! Call, email, write a letter, send out the pony express or a smoke signal, whatever it takes. We are the graffiti abatement pro's. Check out our Twitter and Facebook pages too! Creating vandalism just so you can clean it up, and get paid for it?
To read the full article, click here! Got a question? Have a story to share? Contact us anytime! Call, email, write a letter, send out the pony express or a smoke signal, whatever it takes. We are the graffiti abatement pro's. Check out our Twitter and Facebook pages too After seven months of wreaking havoc on Vista, California, two teenagers are finally arrested for over $200,000 in vandalism damage.
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