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City endorses graffiti walls
■What began as a forum for
youths to express themselves
has gained the city’s and
shop owner’s support
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
A group of six local artists are
putting the finishing touches on a
graffiti mural that was recently
added to the local outdoor art
scene thanks to a grant from the
city of Eugene.
The city granted $25,000 to the
Lane Arts Council to administer
Art Wall, a program which funded
the 10-by-75 mural. Lizzy Hughes,
coordinator of the program, said
she is excited young people have
the chance to paint outdoors.
“It’s really exciting to see kids
be involved with public art,”
Hughes said.
Graffiti waiters often lament
that there is no open legal forum
for them to express their ideas or
display their work, and the mural
project is designed to start solving
this problem. Though the project
is designed as a way to give high
school-aged students a creative
outlet, it has expanded to accept
any interested artists who don’t fit
the criterion for lead artist.
The grant goes to paying coor
dinators and buying supplies
such as paints and special face
masks. The mural is located
downtown on the wall of Shoe-A
Holic near Broadway Plaza.
Don’t expect the initial mural to
stay up long, however. Steve Lopez,
one of the group’s leaders, said he
hopes they can repaint the mural
projects every month or two.
“Art is supposed to be continu
ously changing,” said Lopez, a
University senior fine arts major.
“I don’t think a mural should be
permanent.”
Ben Slichter, a Lane Community College student, finishes off his piece of the mural.
There are currently three sepa
rate groups of young artists work
ing on the project at sites around
Eugene. One group, led by Dylan
Freeman, a local artist whose
wares can be found at the Satur
day Market, completed a wall on
444 Lincoln Street. Lopez leads
the group of five that is designated
to work on the Shoe-A-Holic wall.
Lopez also contributed his own
talent to the wall.
The third group, led by Kari
Johnson, is made up of female
brush artists and is in the planning
process for a mural.
Other than the background,
which was painted with rollers,
the Shoe-A-Holic mural is done
entirely using spray cans. Each
artist used purple, orange, teal and
green to create continuity.
“It would be so beautiful to see
walls painted everywhere,” Lopez
said.
Ben Slichter, a student at Lane
Community College, used a mix
ture of words and characters in his
piece.
“Painting, for me, is sort of like
meditation,” he said. “You can put
your life on the wall but it’s also a
great way to educate other people. ”
The next mural is tentatively
scheduled to go up at the old Sears
building downtown and will be a
collaborative effort of the groups
and any newcomers who join. Or
ganizers continue scouting new
mural locations, and after the
Sears project it is uncertain where
murals will go up and what their
content will be. The possibility of
doing murals with political and
social messages is open.
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