Legal spaces for graffiti and public art
Create free spaces in neighborhoods where teens, young adults and others can make paint and spray-paint art, which could also keep graffiti off businesses and buildings.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Adding in spaces in more rural areas of the city + neighborhoods where teens, young adults, or anyone can do their own forms of art with paint, spray paint, etc. Giving people a space to graffiti could help to keep it off businesses, buildings, etc
Who it helps and why
This project would be free and accessible to people in any and all neighborhoods. Having a space where people of different backgrounds can share and express their own art would promote socialization between different age groups, genders, and ethnicities, that otherwise might not always occur
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 15, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Arts & Culture
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
- Themes
- Arts & culture
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