CULCHA

L.A.: Building the canvas of the street

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In Los Angeles’ Pico-Union neighborhood, Ricardo Guerrero, an enterprising street artist and musician, hopes to continue transforming “taggers” into skilled graffiti artists. In its four-year existence, the Graff Lab has provided an outlet for artistic hopefuls to express themselves in a streetwise context — and a spatially focused environment that doesn’t draw the ire of locals or the authorities. A wide range of creative expression is allowed, but one rule holds: No gangsters.

                                               Read more in the Los Angeles Times

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