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Clean Up Graffiti

Cleaning up graffiti in your neighborhood or a poorer neighborhood near you is a simple way to give back to your community.

Benefits

Many areas don't have the financial support or the volunteer needed to rid their communities of offensive vandalism to public and private property. Some cities offer programs for volunteers to help get rid of graffiti or supply spray paint to volunteers who offer to cover graffiti. You can help your neighbors by keeping their surroundings beautiful!

Step It Up

Improve your neighborhood by spending a couple hours cleaning up graffiti. Invite a friend or neighbor to help you. Or, organize a group in your neighborhood to take turns ridding your community of graffiti.

Keep It Simple

Keep a lookout for graffiti in your neighborhood and call the City to alert them about graffiti that needs to be removed.

Related Resources

  • Visit USA.gov to look at your local government's website and find out if they offer a graffiti-cleaning program.
  • Find out what one man in Orlando is doing to clean up graffiti in his community: "Man on mission to clean up graffiti."
  • Click here for tips on graffiti removal.

2 comments

  • Comment Link Miranda Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:23 posted by Miranda

    I could not agree with you more, Catherine. In downtown Hot Springs, we also have a garage dedicated to street art. I believe it beautiful and creative. Street art adds character and, maybe contrary to more conservative minds, beauty to neighborhoods. Art is art, no matter who it is made by or were it is displayed.

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  • Comment Link Catherine C Monday, 07 November 2011 19:22 posted by Catherine C

    While I agree that some graffiti is vandalism, more and more graffiti nowadays is in truth street art and should be preserved. I live in Tacoma, WA and there is a whole parking garage downtown dedicated to the work of street artists. Encouraging the outright removal of all graffiti is highly ethnocentric. We should encourage creativity and art in our communities, especially poorer communities where the arts are highly under funded in the public school system.Street art is a constructive outlet for voicing and making highly visible social injustices and social problems. Why should we praise a street artist like Banksy who 'vandalizes' walls all over the world, but blame and put down local street artists who may be young and black and live in a poor neighborhood? That is racist and ethnocentric. Street art IS beautiful and shouldn't be arbitrarily 'cleaned up'. It isn't an act of kindness to destroy a creative person's work of art.

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