Spray Painting Workshop

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Graffiti impresario Zeb has spent the last year delivering spray painting workshops organized through the Stockyard Institute at the Hyde Park Art Center. The last master class of the year involved DePaul University art teachers who will collaborate with Zeb on a large scale wall piece at the HPAC in late December 2008. The piece references censorship / censored and will be on the second floor gallery in the back by the artist studios. The entire process of teaching graffiti with teachers has opened up the singular referents of violence on the public and the old testimonial of destruction to property. These exchanges which included young people and artists from the Hyde Park neighborhood established new vantage points and shed some much needed light on our painted city. They elevated the idea of painting and its influences of writing and semiotics, circulating conversations around maybe, the last radical form.