by Alan Stamm Spray paint stylists from Detroit, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago and Denver gather here this week to turn blank walls into splashy, flashy street art. They ll participate in the first BLKOUT Walls Murals Festival, a seven-day event that starts Saturday in the city s North End neighborhood and part of the nearby New Center area. Organizers and sponsors hope to plant the seed of an arts-based economic development, or creative economy, within the North End community, a description says. The quality and number of murals would be a powerful magnet to draw visitors to that area during the festival and give them a reason to return.
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