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GRAFFITI | TUESDAY AUGUST 16
GRAFFITI | TUESDAY AUGUST 16
APEX, Street Artist
BEN MORGAN, Director, Quality of Life (Graffiti Film)
JOHN DOFFING, Founder, START SOMA + START MOBILE Art Galleries
MACHAELA M. HOCTOR, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco City
Attorney's Office
MOHAMMED NURU, Chair, San Francisco's Graffiti Advisory Board
JONATHON KEATS, Art and Culture Critic; Visual Arts Critic, San Francisco
Magazine - Moderator
URBAN SCRAWL OR ARTISTIC FREEDOM?
From its contemporary origins in the late 1960s, graffiti has spread globally,
from the city and boroughs of New York to walls around the world. Some see
the proliferation of graffiti as a veritable modern plague, an urban blight that
clearly diminishes quality of life. Others would argue that today's graffiti is a
historically significant art form, providing a unique means of creative
expression to the disenfranchised and marginalized. Are the words of the
prophets truly written on subway walls and tenement halls, or is graffiti
nothing more than mindless vandalism that is directly linked to a host of
societal ills? You be the judge.
The evening's discussion opens with a slide show presentation by Jim
Prigoff, an internationally known historian and documenter of murals and
spraycan art. Jim's personally photographed documentation is considered
the largest of its kind and it is said that he has seen more street art than any
other individual.
6:30 p.m., Program | 7:30 p.m., Wine & hors d'oeuvres reception | Club
office, 595 Market St., 2nd floor, San Francisco | $12 for Members, $20 for
Non-members, $7 for Students (with valid I.D.; to reserve student tickets call
415-597-6705) | Directions to The Club.
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