Nurturing Art

by Dora Raymaker · 2009-06-02 16:00:00 UTC
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an intricate, abstract, spray paint mural on a brick wallA local newspaper of Venice Beach (CA) published a story about an autistic man and the Venice Beach Art Walls. Apparently, like most people, the man has benefited from being included in his community and from doing things he likes (hopefully some day this sort of thing will happen all the time and no longer be news).

There didn't seem to be much more meat to write about from the story, but it made me really curious about what these "art walls" are, so I looked up the Venice Public Art Walls.

The Venice Public Art Walls are walls of graffiti. But while mainstream culture typically thinks of graffiti as ugly, offensive, frightening, and unwanted, the Venice Public Art Walls show another option. Beautiful, intricate, fascinating, and desirable, the graffiti of Venice Beach is art, not eyesore.

Sometimes things that initially seem unsightly to mainstream culture, if nurtured, could turn out to be wonderful. Like, just for example, a person's Special Interests...

Dora Raymaker
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