12-15-09
HEArt at Costano Elementary in East Palo Alto began this week! This quarter, our Costano program focuses on graffiti arts to teach healthy lifestyles for youth. The rock star teaching team for this urban graffiti program, “HEArt of the City,” includes Magda, a graffiti artist and PhD student at Stanford, Laura, a muralist and senior at UC Santa Cruz, and Zaid and Marilyn, our Teen Art Instructors.
In the first week, students are introduced to ways graffiti enables healthy changes for the self and the community. Students learned about the graffiti alphabet and basic elements in a graffiti piece. They got to see examples of graffiti pieces, and then practiced their own tags!
Our new HEART OF THE CITY graffiti students check out some cool graffiti books:
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