Rob Deieso (left) and Adrian D'Alessandro, both of Adelaide, Australia, and Jesse Bull, an economics professor at Florida International University, stop to look at a graffiti-covered wall during a two-hour graffiti tour of the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami. Once derided as vandalism, graffiti in the form of artistic murals has become an accepted art form. Now visitors can take a two-hour tour by Vespa of the area’s best graffiti. (Associated Press)
Murals proliferate in Fla. arts mecca
From the Washington Times:
“Graffiti has been a bad word in America for a long time. We are trying to change that,” said Jayson Moreira, co-owner of Montana Colors North America, a spray paint company based in San Francisco, which donated 8,000 cans of spray paint used to create many of the murals in Miami during Art Basel. He even helped paint a mural of Japanese girls on the side of a two-story building that was once an RC Cola Plant.
Nice quote from my man JASE. It would be great to see something like this in DC, especially with (e)merge coming up. Check out the entire article here.
