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Tag, You're Art: Local Street Artists Are Tagging Over Murals and Calling It Art

By Claire Lawton September 30, 2010

Monsters of Folk was coming to the Orpheum Theatre last fall, but Charlie Levy didn't have the cash to buy a billboard. So the Tucson-based music promoter hired a friend... More >>>

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Tucson artist Joe Pagac drives up to Phoenix (almost) every First Friday to paint a 40-by-15-foot rotating mural outside eye lounge gallery on Roosevelt Street.

Bobby Castaneda's tagname, RESIST, on a light pole on the corner of Roosevelt and Second streets.

Bobby Castaneda's tagname, RESIST on the Pabst Blue Ribbon mural on Roosevelt and Third street.

Anti-SB 1070 tag appeared on Pagac's mural in July.

The Pabst Blue Ribbon mural was tagged and painted over in early August, as the marketing campaign ended.

Graffiti artists and taggers add their own murals, characters, and commentary in the so-called "graffiti alley" behind stores on McDowell Road between 18th and 19th streets.

Bobby Castaneda's artwork typically features "Shady", the skeleton he calls his alter ego.

Lalo Cota's work can be seen in the alleyway behind MADE boutique on Roosevelt and Fifth streets.

Greg Esser is the director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and co-owns eye lounge gallery on RoRow.

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