Community and Leisure Committee Agenda 10 March 2003
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Topic: Graffiti
Sort Desciption: proactive graffiti strategy (Legal Art Programme), inform the Committee of ... of ways of dealing with graffiti art. ° 87.1% of respondents affirmed the ...
Content Inside: Community and Leisure Committee Agenda 10 March 2003 5. PROACTIVE GRAFFITI STRATEGY – LEGAL ART PROGRAMME Officer responsible Author Community Relations Manager Robyn Moore, DDI 941-6406 The purpose of this report is to update the Community and Leisure Committee on the work of the proactive graffiti strategy (Legal Art Programme), inform the Committee of organisational and operational issues with the programme, and to ask the Committee whether or not they want the programme to continue. BACKGROUND The Legal Art Programme works directly with taggers who have been referred by police, parents, schools, or youth workers. The young people go through an assessment procedure to ascertain immediate life needs and if necessary referrals are made to agencies who can help with such things as accommodation and health issues. When these immediate needs are in hand, the young person may enter the Legal Art Programme. Here they are tutored in aerosol art and go through a carefully formulated series of steps which see them move from buffing (or cleaning) areas prior to a Legal Art project, acting as assistants to experienced artists on small projects, completing a small project such as an Orion Kiosk under the guidance of a more experienced artist, assisting on large projects and ultimately reaching a level where they become lead artists and mentors to new recruits. The final stage sees young people in a position to accept and organise their own business projects. Throughout the process a young person can immediately be dismissed from the programme if they have broken their agreement not to tag. It has been interesting to note that those who have developed their artistic ability through the Legal Art Programme to the point where they are being offered paid work painting murals still want to work with the programme on a voluntary basis in their spare time. So far the programme has been operating for two and a half years. It has been breaking new ground and as such ther ...
