My Final Project

For my Final Project I wanted to focus on art specifically graffiti/ street art. The reason is because I've felt a lot of women get discouraged to be part of this culture and style of art because of the risk that is involved in getting your art up. Graffiti has always been a male dominated art style. The reason is because Graffiti at times requires at time to break that law by putting up illegal art all over the city. This would have to require a lot of graffiti artists to have to go out late at night and climb things. A lot of the time girl graffiti writers would get discouraged because they are always getting told that they can't do something or don't have the balls to do something. Of course this all began to change when female artists despite getting told they can't do something went even harder to get their name and art known that they paved the way for other female artists.

One permanent figure of female graffiti artists was Lady Pink. Here is a short video explaining her experience

Lady Pink is now known as a graffiti legend she has been painting since the hayday and golden age of graffiti when it was on the trains. From Lady Pink there has been other prominent graffiti female artists such as Claw and Miss 17. Claw has reached mainstream success and has began her own clothing line and is still one of the best graffiti artists to date and to this day she still paints walls.

Even though there are famous female graffiti writers who now get the fame and respect they deserve there are still many who still get mistreated or are still not good enough to do graffiti.

As we can see from this video girls still get criticized more than male writers for the fact that they are females and nothing other than that. I believe that girls shouldn't get criticized more than male writers just for being girls. They should be criticized and known for their skill and art. There should be more equality in the field and as explained in this video here there are several reasons why girls don't get the same equal treatment because as soon as a writer is known to be a girl many guys would try to get at her not for her art but for the fact that she is a girl and they want some which I feel is really messed up and they shouldn't be treated that way.

In the end I did this project to shine more light on female graffiti / street artists so they can better get to know one another and make collaborations and not feel discouraged for their art and for any other reasons that comes with being a female in this art form. I wanted a way for them to get together and create a mural on a wall and I also got a chance to sit down with them and ask them for their personal experience of any discrimnation they face for being females in graffiti / street art. I interviewed Imamaker, Miishab, Jcorp, and Hiss. And I also created a zine documented their work and the interviews I did with them.