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100en1diaTijuana: movimento mundial
Tijuana Colonias

100en1diaTijuana: movimento mundial

Tijuana va a participar en un movimento mundial. 7 de junio, 2014 ¡No faltes!

Tijuana participativa: Tijuana will join in worldwide movement of 100 en 1 día
Tijuana Urban Art

Tijuana participativa: Tijuana will join in worldwide movement of 100 en 1 día

“This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.” –Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Indeed, as Jane Jacobs argued in 1961, what makes a city great is the […]

Urban art in progress
Tijuana Urban Art

Urban art in progress

Garzón Masabó, Professor of Art at University Autonoma of Baja California, guides young Tijuana urban artist Packo Soria as he moves through the stages to create a stencil. Stenciling draws its appearl from its modern roots in commercial design and signage. The form lends itself to collage, mashups, and activist […]

HEM Crew celebrates 24 years on the streets of Tijuana/San Diego
Tijuana Urban Art

HEM Crew celebrates 24 years on the streets of Tijuana/San Diego

Tucked inside a parking lot off Calle Primera in Tijuana’s Zona Norte, a  mural now covers what was once a blank wall. This past week, members of the graffiti crew HEM (Hecho en Mexico or “Made in Mexico”) marked a milestone together–twenty-four years of bombing the streets and alleys of […]

Tijuana Alley Art at VISUAL in San Diego’s Normal Heights
Tijuana Urban Art

Tijuana Alley Art at VISUAL in San Diego’s Normal Heights

March 9, 2013  SATURDAY NIGHT  6-10 PM VISUAL Shop  3524 Adams Ave  San Diego, CA 92116  With wheatpaste art & paintings by Tijuana artists: 1102, Panca, and Spel Teodora Craft beer by Francisco J. Garcia of Studio 2287, Tijuana  The concept of my exhibition is to explore—through my photos— “that […]

This graffiti must be permitted
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This graffiti must be permitted

Last winter, Jay Porter of the Linkery was issued a citation by the City of San Diego’s neighborhood code compliance office for maintaining graffiti on a public wall on their property. The only problem–the offending piece was a commissioned, large-scale work.  Not illegal. In fact, Jay Porter commissions artists to […]