We create Graffiti Art projects that engage young people in the creative process, producing pieces of art while allowing personal expression, through interaction within their environment. We work with the larger community to create extended initiatives through eg. pathways to education, employment, diversion from negative activities.
Why We Do It:
We have a proven track record of successfully engaging in an authentic way with young people. We recognise, from personal experience, what Graffiti means, in its cultural, social and personal context. The bridge it creates for young people to communicate to the world at large, the creative process that allows problem solving, design and planning - key skills in the working and educational environment. Graffiti is a beginning, not an end in itself - we have moved on and created value for ourselves.
Why Work With Us?
Our varied backgrounds prove that you can ultimately make a choice in life and change your expected outcomes despite your circumstances. We personally relate to the many disadvantages faced by many young people today.
The Street Art Legends programmes can be delivered either in partnership with other existing initiatives or as 'lead' work to engage difficult to reach groups, allowing and fostering opportunities for long term support/resources to take root.
The aim is to encourage qualities such as, dignity, equality and respect, for the individual self and for others.
'Identity' forms the basis of all our projects as it is through self recognition and understanding your environment and your place within it, that you can begin to express yourself truthfully and with imagination.
We champion the concept, that 'from this moment on' an individual can start to reflect and shape a new sense of self worth and value and that they can initiate a change in their lives through action, participation and responsibility for themselves.
Outcomes:
Our Graffiti Art programme fosters a sense of team work, self reflection and critical appraisal of self. These are assets to any individual and intrinsic to the artistic process.
The workshops can act as a preparatory initiative to engage, for example, young people with the opportunites of Higher Education in Art/Design/Publishing/Media Institutions.
The documented process and finished body of work could be the beginnings of, or add to an existing, portfolio of work.
The very real skills learned throughout the workshops introduce vocational experience which can be documented and appraised where of value and appropriate to the client.
Graffiti Workshops
Each programme is tailored to the specific client group, their needs, abilities and necessary outcomes etc. Therefore timelines and resources are variable.
We can work indoors or outdoors; from digital or freehand design, planning, acquiring sites, boards, textiles etc. to executing final pieces in a range of media e.g. aerosol, paint, print, stencil, markers. Themes and outcomes will be developed through consultation with the user group or funding body.
We can work directly on your site or with groups to source potential sites, contacting owners and negotiating usage.
It’s amazing what can happen when you engage with your community!