The Beaver County History Podcast
RESOURCES
Terms & Definitions
Documentaries, Books, Articles, Collections
Issues & Debates
In the News
Terms & Definitions
- Graffiti (wiki)
- Glossary of Graffiti (wiki)
- Graffiti Glossary (from The Popular History of Graffiti: From the Ancient World to the Present)
- Graffiti Glossary (from Graffiti Empire)
- Summary of Street and Graffiti Art (The Art Story)
- Deciphering the Meaning of Graffiti
- Uncover the hidden messages in graffiti: When the crime is the evidence, a web-based tool can help you investigate even after tagging or gang graffiti is removed or painted over
- ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing: Graffiti Guide
- Beginners Guide to Graffiti, Street & Mural Art
- Everthing you wanted to know about tag graffiti in less than 5 minutes read
- Know Graffiti (Facebook page)
- Graffiti Ideas (Facebook page)
Documentaries, Books, Articles, Collections
DOCUMENTARIES, FILMS
- Bomb It (2008)
- Crescent City Bombers (full movie)
- Tell Me Where I’m Not: NYC Graffiti Documentary
- Brighton Illegal Graffiti Documentary
- Getting Up (Full Graffiti Documentary)
- The Tragic Story of a Graffiti Legend
- Jaber the White Ninja Interview
- Downtown Pittsburgh SECRET LOCATION – Legal Graffiti & Trains – Color Park
- Graffiti Pittsburgh FTC
BOOKS & ARTICLES
- 20th Century Graffiti – The Rise of Graffiti Art
- Pittsburgh’s Graffiti Elite Confess Their Obsession With Illegal Art (Pittsburgh City Paper)
- Understanding Historic Preservation in a Dynamic Frame: The Graffiti Arts Program at the Carrie Blast Furnaces
- The Popular History of Graffiti: From the Ancient World to the Present
- The Graffiti of Grief: Violence, Death and Remembrance in Pittsburgh Gang Neighbourhoods
- Armed with Paint: Graffiti artists walk the fine line between criminals and folk heroes. This weekend, their work is showcased in the light of day
- It’s More Than Just Graffiti: The impact that graffiti has is larger than what people realize (Pittsburgh)
- The Pittsburgh Orbit: “Pittsburgh Orbit seeks to squint through the dusty windows, climb the overgrown hillsides, dip a toe in the muddy river, unfurl the platte maps, and poke a finger into the little corners of Pittsburgh (and environs) art, history, and culture that may not usually get their due.”
- Encyclopedia of Graffiti (1974)
COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITS
Issues & Debates
- Is graffiti art? Or vandalism? – Kelly Wall (TED-Ed)
- Why Many Feel Graffiti is Dead
- The Encyclopedia of World Problems & Human Potential: Graffiti
- 5 Issues that social street art addresses on graffiti walls around the world!
- Australian Institute of Criminology: Key issues in graffiti
- The Pseudo-Autonomy of Art: Essay by R.Cronk
- Is Graffiti Really An Element Of Hip-Hop? (book excerpt)
- Street Art: It’s Not Meant to be Permanent
In the News
- Graffiti beyond the streets (CBS Sunday Morning)
- Graffiti: Art or vandalism? (CBS Sunday Morning)
- Meet the 71-Year-Old “Graffiti Grandma” Scrubbing Away Hate
- Tired Of Painting Gray Squares Over Graffiti, South Side Resident Connects Taggers With Community (WESA)
- Baron Batch On Graffiti Charges: ‘Make Something Good Out Of It’ (WESA)
- Mook (graffiti artist, wiki)
- Tag! You’re It! Looking At The Work Of Pittsburgh’s Anti-Graffiti Squad (WESA)
- Graffiti Cleaning/Removal in Zelienople, Pennsylvania
- Graffiti Crackdown Reflects Social Tensions In Fractured East End (WESA)
- 2nd Ave Playground (Beaver Falls)
LOCAL VANDALISM REPORTS
- Arrest made in connection vandalism of veterans’ memorial at Beaver’s Clark Park
- Koppel Office Building Graffitied
- Zelinople Police Make Arrest in String of Burglaries [and graffiti]
- ‘Toilet trike man’ says council president assaulted him while discussing NSFW graffiti
- Swastika In School Prompts Racial Fight (Ambridge)
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