Greetings SPPDCACPAP and all the
rest of you PANsters.
Beginning in 1991, Chicago Public Art Group formed specific collaborations between muralists and spraycan artists. Leadership, aesthetics, responsibility, effective communication were the responsibility of everyone. Artists were encouraged to try the material they did not know – to gain experience and understanding. The collaborations were equal – equal pay, equal responsibility. It was/is not a competitive approach. There is no one to defeat. This persists (with other good energy).
If there is/was work already on
a site to be repainted, we would sometimes consider if the
content (or the artist) could be referenced in the new piece.
Design.
Skill
counts. Drafting, color, application.
Artists are aware of local gang colors/symbols and avoid them according to the site.
Artists create work that is representative, in complicated ways, of the community in which it is located.
And, the design is consciously and consistently more dense between 2’ and 7’ from the ground.