Art Adventures: Street Styles

DAVe Warnke is doing a really great thing. He's providing a place where young graffiti writers can practice their art and develop their skills as artists, and they can do it in a safe and legal way.
DAVe, a Bay Area street artist who has been bringing his happy, smiley characters to us for years, both in galleries and in public places, created his after school art program -- and now summer program -- called 'Street Styles' with this goal:
"The mission of Street Styles is to educate and inspire youth to develop their own artistic style, to hone their skills and contribute to their communities in positive ways. "

The program is held at Root Division in San Francisco and is running on support from Youth Speaks. You can support the program by making a donation on the Youth Speaks website(www.youthspeaks.org), just put "Street Styles" in the "on behalf of" field.

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[BAYWATCH2639]

u shouldnt teach them thats making it mainstream not any average person should do graffiti sum one cant just wakeup on day and say " hey im a become a tagger! =)" no they cant they have to fall into it as a groovement i didnt plan on becoming a writer it just happened and hey i got good at it but i didnt have no one provide me with ideas or inspiration u find it ur self. all those kids at the end are ignorant.

[matzit92]

Why don't they support beautifying some ugly old buildings? Fuck "illegal"

[badnewsmonk]

I would go to this class just to steal supplies

[vcsgfxcbfz]

@921powerade Hey hey hey hey Dont say that bout my teacher he is cool. He is my School Art Teacher and he makes life funner so stfu!!!

[vcsgfxcbfz]

Hey thats my Art Teacher hehe Mr.Warnke funny guy

[FrederickAve]

Dude I'm white and do this stuff to so stfu

[LowOpsHipHop]

everybody talkin shit, i wish there was somthin like this where im at. Just chillin with other writers, drawin in my blackbook without the annoyin ass white kids walkin up "oooooh whats that say? is that a gang? whats it mean?" or the teacher sendin me to the principal for gang affiliation

[Rmazon17]

For graff supplies go to artprimo (.) com / catalog / index.php ? afref = 67033

[InvsnRoneR]

do they supply the ink n paint?

[AlejandroN2r2]

This isn't that bad. I like this a lot:)