Gallery
Street Smart Art

© 1996 Street Smart Art, all rights reserved
Medium: Acrylic latex semi-gloss enamel with polyurethane clear-coat
Located at 12th Ave S. & S. Jackson St. in Seattle
Take a look at what this site looked like before the mural was painted.

Street Smart Art
Many walls and fences located adjacent to bus zones are chronic targets for graffiti, making these bus zones less attractive to customers and sometimes making businesses in the area disgruntled with the bus stop. This project was a collaboration with "Street Smart Art," a youth and community oriented arts program directed by artist Saundra Valencia and partially funded by Seattle engineering Department. Street Smart Art provided constructive projects and mentoring for teenage graffiti artists, through the medium of community mural projects. These projects involve graffiti artists in meetings with the community or business to gather ideas for a mural in their area.

Funding
This bus shelter and wall mural was commissioned by the Metro Arts Program in 1996.