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Why Murals Beats the Buff

Despite graffiti’s noble origins in rebellion and its evolution into elaborate calligraphy which has set the trends in art and culture for four decades, the mainstream view is that graffiti tagging — the root signatures from this movement — represents an eyesore.

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Painting, Planting and Pulling Weeds Tour

In 2007 and 2008, Mike 360 and Desi W.O.M.E traveled the western half of the United States painting murals, planting gardens and pulling up evasive species. In 2007, stops included Albuquerque, Denver, Lame Deer, Montana; Kyle, South Dakota, and Salt Lake City. In 2008, the two received a grant to study natural pigments on the Pine Ridge reservation resulting in two murals, including a war memorial at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Mike and Desi also painted a mural at the Santa Fe Art Institute with several students and artists.

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Richmond Robots

In 2008, CRP was commissioned to paint a new mural over a community project led by Harold Beaulieu on 8th and MacDonald that had fallen into disrepair. CRP kept the original theme of butterflies as representatives of our ancestors and integrated the Richmond Robottin’ culture that helped define west coast funk dance styles and had a major influence in hip-hop. Original robot dancers, Ralph “Plik-Plok” Mantejo and Eustinove Smith served as consultants for the project and brought through many of the original dancers for an amazing block party.

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Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Project

In 2009, CRP was commissioned through Lao Family Community Development to work with 30 employed youth for a six week summer project. The project cleaned-up 150 blocks of trash, painted 5 murals, threw 4 block parties, surveyed the community, and took over 5,000 photos from which they created a 28 page full-color magazine. Three of the large scale murals were created on the Foothill Cultural Corridor.

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Watsonville Brown Beret Bike Shack

In January 2009, the Watsonville Brown Berets invited CRP to create a mural on their newly formed Bike Shack. Over the course of one weekend, the Berets created a beautiful mural celebrating bikes and xicano culture with the artists. The Berets hosted a Pe~na for the local youth who came out and painted their own works. This mural introduced CRP to Elijah Pfotenhauer, who became a lead artist in the collective.

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MLK Cultural Corridor

In 2010, CRP began a series of murals in one of Oakland’s most blighted communities, nicknamed Ghost town, with a mural on an abandoned Foster’s Freeze on Martin Luther King Way at 25th street. The community response was overwhelmingly positive and numerous other walls were requested. Soon the murals covered both corners of the block and ran halfway down the street. Despite two fences being torn down, there are now four murals in the area between 28th and 22nd on MLK. CRP has begun to add other murals in the surrounding blocks such as 30th and west.

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