Graffiti Workshop! Participate in creating a graffiti piece and take it home afterwards!

A little bit about the Brooklyn graffiti scene at the Bushwick Collective:

it’s a diplomatic process that includes local and international artists
50+ multicolor murals blankets the buildings transforming the area in to an “outdoor gallery” know as The Bushwick Collective.
About a hundred artists have participated.
All started by Joe Ficalora. His father, a factory worker, was murdered in 1991 at the corner of Wyckoff and Starr, just a block from the family home.
His uncle and aunt both worked in factories, saved and built their own ironworking factory
After the blackout in 1977, the year before Ficalora was born, Bushwick became, in his words, “a ghost town.” After fires were set during the blackout, the neighborhood continued to be plagued by arson for years.
According to a New York Times story, three years after the 1977 blackout, Bushwick had “lost 20 percent of its housing, a third of its population and nearly half its businesses.”
In 2011, his idea was to offer up walls on properties in Bushwick owned by his family to artists, then convince other local business owners to allow murals on their own walls as well.
Ficalora curates everything himself: meeting with the artists, looking at images of their art, deciding whether it’s right for the Collective and determining where their work will go.