Over at Avant Greensboro, Charles Woods laments the lack of art in downtown Greensboro. Especially colorful and beautiful graffiti like is found in so many thriving cities around the world.
“When I was in Switzerland,” says Cranford, “there was beautiful graffiti everywhere with no effort to cover it up.” Such is not the case in Greensboro.
“Most of our work was taken down quickly,” adds Nicole, “the Bill Hicks piece we did was taken down in less than a day.”
‘Tis the DGI, Action Greensboro, Greensboro Partnership, Chamber of Commerce mindset. They see no difference between beautiful graffiti and gang tags: There’s no profit in it. But should Mr Hicks demand "extravagant" payment for his works of art you will no doubt see our Downtown boosters lobbying City Council for taxpayer funding to pay Mr Hicks a pittance while scraping their huge cuts off the top.
Want beautiful graffiti in Downtown Greensboro? You just have to know how to work the good ol’ boy system. It was put in place by Southerners, the Yankees learned to work it well… and if you can live with yourself you can do it too.
