Comments on: Students help in Southeast Portland clean up effort

By: SEB3300

SEB3300 — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:48:07 +0000

What you call art on a building that is graffiti is not art. Some of those tags are gang signs and words that children do not need to see. ANY type of art that is seen with the human eyes should be pleasing and no jumbled up gang tags. Plus it devalues the neighborhood. I am glad they took the graffiti down. In my opinion it looked like trash. The owners of those businesses have a right to have it off of their buildings. If some one was to do that to me I would be up set. If a person who has real talent and made a nice picture murals and was pleasing to the eye and made people really not feel bad to see it, then I would be fine with it and NICE wall art and not the messed up jumbled up gang bangers words can help the neighborhood. So be glad that they put in their hard earned time to get rid of the crap on the side of the walls, that did not need to be there. Those kids tag on every thing. Those “kids” should be puting their talents into other stuff like their education and being kids and not in gangs or using call signs for people to see and allow others to know they have drugs or it is “their” area. I know this because I have family that are in gang tasks forces. They read the graffiti and know who the gang is and who sprayed it on the walls. Like any one really wants to see that. I had to replace several parts to a fence and that wood was not cheap to come by. So stop whining about graffiti that has been washed away and be happy it was. (Very happy lady).

By: Andy Z

Andy Z — Sun, 11 May 2014 17:13:52 +0000

Awesome job picking up the trash!

Is it possible to have a space for local graffiti artists to show off their skills? Art created by the community is what we want to see, not ugly buildings and abstract rectangles of removed art. I understand that businesses in the Jade District do not want graffiti on their buildings, but if the business owners and their affiliates (looking at you, APANO) decided to work with the artists in their community, perhaps 82nd could become more pleasing to the eye.

By: Sam T

Sam T — Sat, 10 May 2014 15:40:23 +0000

Why bother removing graffiti? Who cares, i’d rather look at art on the back of a building (that actually represents the local community) rather than a plain, empty wall. From what I can see on picture three, the graffiti is not a bunch of simple name “tags” by high school students it is art.

I think the trash clean up is excellent but cleaning up cool works of art is a waste of time and a disservice to the community your organization claims to be serving.

By: Nancy Chapin

Nancy Chapin — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:22:59 +0000

The 82nd Avenue Parade Committee greatly appreciates the time and energy that students and others put in to clean up the area as well as to prepare 82nd Avenue for the Parade on April 26th. Thanks a bunch!!