San Diego Cultural Arts Alliance

Graffiti can be seen as art or as vandalism, depending on your sense of aesthetics, educational background as what you consider art or craft or just nothing. For me, graffiti is an urban art and I am very pleased to see initiatives like the San Diego Cultural Arts Alliance promoting it in a way that integrates youth in society instead of excluding them. I read somewhere that 3 local artists (Hansl One, DyseOne and The Crown Royals) were going to be participating in one project organized by this entity and with the participation of young boys and girls (I would say mostly boys) at the Westfield mall in Mission Valley’s parking lot structure. Both famous and unknown were painting on Thursday and Friday and I went on Saturday when they were giving the final touches. I found it a great initiative and visually pleasant.