Showing that their next step is burglary. With the use of facebook and the use of our program right here that we did just this past year, we helped with a homicide. We helped with a sexual assault. Not a kid, but trigs went in and sexually assaulted the mom of a girl and they tagged their name on the wall. Who did they come to first . Us. Who do you think this is . We told them. They went and sat on them, got all the evidence we needed, got a good arrest. So, its not just graffiti. I keep telling the officers on the street, it is not just grab eat aloe. It leads to something else. We talk about the addictive behavior of graffiti. It really is addictive. Everybody that ive interviewed so far, were going to talk about some of those at the end, always tell me that theyre addict today it, they cant stop. So, it is an addictive behavior. It is not about the actual graffiti that theyre putting up. Okay. Its that addiction to do it. So, whats next . After you do graffiti, why not burglarize a
Im originally from wisconsin and theres a lot of gang graffiti back when i was growing up. I was interested in looking at it and seeing the messages that were up there. When i got into the Phoenix Police department, i worked four years on the road and then i started doing School Resource officer. The School Resource officer for a couple years where i really, really learned about graffiti. In your presentation, it talked about how the schools, schools are big where they start out, okay. [speaker not understood] at home, but school is where they really get started. In the state of arizona if graffiti is done in school, a cemetery or church, its an automatic class expeling. Anybody here from arizona . Where are you from . Tucson. Awesome. Where are you from . Im from [speaker not understood]. You work at the prison . [speaker not understood]. The jail, okay. Are you guys law enforce. Ment in here . Any nonLaw Enforcement in here . What you do . [speaker not understood]. Sweet. [speaker no
Holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. Maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. Lets go. Before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. What are we standing in front of . This is william wiley, only one earth. This is a print edition. There are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. This is really an art object. There we go. Besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition . There is the slot machine. If you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. What about work . The right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. The cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. Really special. Lets move on to the print shop. Ok. The core of what we do is making things. This is an example. This is a print project that will be a
About 18, roughly about five crews that go out total. But they remember their main focus is public, not private. So, in short thats the answer. [inaudible]. All public property. So, light poles, signal boxes. We do mailboxes, stickers, trees. Garbage can. Trash cans, yeah. [speaker not understood]. Public. Yeah, city property. The benches in the parks. We dont do parks, but parks are done, rec and park does the benches he. We have some pretty basic colors. So, most of our furniture is probably one of four colors. Its all going to be green. Okay. Lets see, what am i going to do . Were going to do this 15, 20 more minutes because i know mel needs to leave in a little while. We were going to go to about 4 15 but were cut short a little bit. Well do a tenminute break after that and well kickoff some awards for people that are deserving. So, im going to take another question from gideon, gideon cramer, former member of the San Francisco graffiti advisory board. And lets hear what you have t
Printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know