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Al Diaz (born June 10, 1959) is an American urban artist and lecturer best known for being among the first generation of graffiti writers in the community and for co-creating the graffiti campaign SAMO© with Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1978.
Jon Naar (May 5, 1920 – November 30, 2017) was an English-American author and photographer celebrated for his pioneering images of New York City graffiti in the 1970s, and for portraits of Andy Warhol and other celebrities, including the British Prime Minister.
Donnelly was born in 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey, [6] where he attended St. Anthony High School.As a teenager, Donnelly created a tag for himself, KAWS (based on the way the letters looked—the word, in fact, has no meaning), which he painted on the roof of an area building so that he could see it outside while attending class in high school. [9]
Daniel Henderson, 42, of Yonkers, was busted Dec. 27 for allegedly tagging at least 13 spots around New Rochelle in connection to the “One Slice Please” graffiti trend, police said in a press ...
He later became the president of TNB (The Nasty Boyz) and ex-president of TVS (The Vamp Squad), one of the most notorious New York graffiti crews. T-KID is still active and his work can be seen in the Bronx as well as around the world. He is also a member of MAC crew from Paris.
Dare (graffiti artist) (1968-2010) real name Sigi (Siegfried) von Koeding, was a Swiss graffiti artist and curator Harald Naegeli (born December 4, 1939) – known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s
Gant was active in the 1980s graffiti scene in New York City. [2] Influenced by African-American artists such as filmmaker Spike Lee, in the early 1990s, Gant started performing spoken word in New York City and Newark. [2] Gant creates artistic works textile and clothing design, metal sculpture, woodcarving, and wall murals. [5]
She was co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Public Art Foundation. [1] In 1985, following a diagnosis of lupus, Golden left California to be with her family in the Philadelphia area, where she had grown up. [2] In 1984, she founded Mural Arts Philadelphia, which grew out of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. [3]