![]() GRL did so by perpetuating graffiti’s proliferation- assisting graffitists in “getting up” and avoiding arrest-and by developing alternative forms of graffiti that encouraged greater public participation and understanding. ![]() ![]() From the outset, GRL’s mission was to combat the many negative opinions and misinterpretations of graffiti. Graffiti-which began appearing in its modern-day form in major cities across the United States in the late 1960s-was, and still is, viewed as vandalism by the public and the art world and disregarded as an art form. Both men, whose backgrounds are not in art-making at all, joined forces with two specific goals in mind: to create tools for traditional graffitists- tools that would lead to new graffiti forms and methods-and to initiate the reconsideration of graffiti amongst urban populations. Evan Roth and James Powderly created the Graffiti Research Lab, or GRL, in New York City in 2005.
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