Asheville Graffiti Project: showcasing creative street art downtown and in the River Arts District

by Jennifer Saylor on July 5, 2011

Asheville web design company, H1 Design Group has started documenting graffiti downtown and in the River District. Follow them on Facebook to see a new graffiti pic every Friday, or just check out their graffiti project gallery.

The public is invited to send in their own local graffiti shots. From a press release:

Wanting to share our passion for creative communication with the rest of the community, we decided to start the Asheville Graffiti Project.

The Asheville Graffiti Project is comprised of photos and map locations. Each day, we share a new photo of a graffito, along with its location, pinpointed on a map of Asheville. We want to make it easy for the community to find and appreciate these unique pieces of guerrilla art.

Check the project out on Facebook. “If you have a graffito you want to add be sure to send us a photo – with the location – so we can add it to our map!”

 

Tagged as: Asheville Graffiti Project

  • Emily

    Thanks! We’re going to add video soon!

  • Sarah

    I don’t disagree that some grafitti is amazing, in the amount of artistic talent it shows. However, spray painting property that is not yours is not okay. If you want to grafitti your own house, or any other building you own, I’d be happy to appreciate it. No? Then stick to a canvas. Not someone else’s property. It saddens me that you are not only promoting, but actually encouraging, people to deface other people’s property. How about encouraging responsibility and respect?

  • http://jennifersaylor.wordpress.com/ Jennifer Saylor

    Hey Sarah, looks like the Graffiti Project is documenting, so far, abandoned/neglected buildings in the RAD and one downtown project from the Asheville Mural Project that’s stunning and beautifying.

    There’s one image that looks like its on private property. If it was painted on my building, I think I’d like it.

    While I don’t support ugly tagging and ugly street art, I do support the Graffiti Project in documenting art that adds character (not defacement) to our city streets, even when it bends the rules. That’s just me.

    Defacing art not in keeping with its surroundings isn’t something I support. Creative, artistic non-intrusive street art is.

    Thanks for sharing your opinion.

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