![]() They prefer living in the quiet/no graf burbs in the region and come to St. And, while this reading didn’t really change my mind, it did help explain the perspective of the taggers.Īnd it also corroborated my colloquial conversations that many if not most of these guys don’t even live here. Thanks to the wonderful writing of local writer, Thomas Crone, there are several articles on local graffiti that are mandatory reading if you want to dig into the subject. The Paint Louis event we hope will carry on from generation to generation and become more and more the most amazing all element HipHop event in the world.” With support from the City and new committee members, the 2013 Paint Louis hosted 300 artists and had around 1,000 attendees came to appreciate the art. In 2012, two of the original committee members reconvened and invited a handful of artists to paint at the wall. After millions of dollars in property damage, City officials shut down the event. The event continued successfully until 2001 when artists showed up and bombed the City. That year the Guinness Book of World Records named the wall the longest graffiti mural in the world. That year's event was sponsored by Tribal Street Wear and Starbucks Frappuccino. Fat Joe and Big Pun came to the 1998 Paint Louis and did murals. Paint Louis gained notoriety in 1998 when t-shirts were made and a DVD documentary was created. As those artists traveled from City to City, State to State, word spread about the event and artists from all over the country started showing up. It was branded with the name Paint Louis.įrom 1995-1997 Paint Louis consisted of a small group of local artists that would paint murals. Louis HipHop community decided to throw an open graffiti jam. STUN ONE along with the rest of the KMS Crew, FCC, and other members of the St. ![]() Graffiti wasn't getting the attention it deserved. Although people had been doing graffiti on the flood wall for years, nobody had ever put together a real graffiti production. Louis who were avid lovers of graffiti and Hip Hop noticed that the other three elements of hip hop were being heavily represented in nightclubs and parks around the City. “Paint Louis actually began roughly around 1995 or so, by a group of friends from St. Louis architecture and old buildings are miffed by the hack-level tagging and trespassing in and on our building stock.īut, it is a document to the current state of policing and gross abandonment that is a reality in St. ![]() You can see how people like myself who love St. It rekindled and made its way back, but sadly the same thing happened again in 2015. The damage was undeniable and Paint Louis was not officially sanctioned by the city from 2001 through 2012. In 2001, taggers scorned by not being included in the official event proceeded to bomb our built environment with 3rd-grade level tagging all over the city. Paint Louis began back in 1995 but it has not come without it’s negative effects on the city as a whole. The graffiti wall makes sense and has seen some much higher-level talent over the years, also the social commentary that evolves with the times is always worth a repeat visit. The arson and other negativity that comes with trespassing and property destruction is not. The vast majority of taggers and graffiti in this town are a joke. I hate the destruction that trespassers, partiers/d-bags and 3rd grade-level “artists” have done to our building stock. It brings out the good and bad of an art form I’ve struggled with for so long. When I need escapism time, this is one of my favorite places to ride my scooter or bike. I’ve known of the graffiti wall for years that stands just south of the Arch in a touch of the Downtown Neighborhood, but mostly in the Kosciusko Neighborhood, a place with no residents, but one of most striking names. While I was recently downtown checking out the new Arch grounds, museum and surroundings, I scootered down the graffiti wall along the riverfront to see what’s new.
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