Mexican Government Asked Street Artists To Paint 200 Houses To Unite Community
A youth organization that’s been known to use graffiti as a means of expression has teamed up with the government of Mexico to rehabilitate Palmitas, a town in the Pachuca district. Under the moniker “Germen Crew,” the group painted 209 houses, or twenty-thousand square meters of facade, into a single rainbow mural.
According to streetartnews, the impact has been extremely positive: 452 families, or 1808 people, were affected by this project, resulting in violence amongst youths being entirely eradicated. The group, whose name literally means “germ crew,” have made community involvement a priority, which could partially explain the good results.
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NICE WORK YOU GUYS. There are a lot of communities like this that need to be cleaned up and brightened up.
de color blanco también se veía bonito parecía una ciudad de Grecia o Ibiza. pero con el color ya le da un gran toque de folklor
Excellent. Art makes the world go round and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Beautiful idea, good result socially, but the council should have provided face masks to prevent the sprayed paint from clogging people's lungs.
Great!!! Repeat where possible whenever possible is my prescription! I think, unfortunately, many in the United States have minds too small to try this.
amazing use of art ...and it is quite an eye opener compared to its drab past....love it.
nice work. i don't want to be negatory but i think it's not possible to unite communities without improvements on basic economic situations. if some community members a rich and some other are living in miserable conditions it's pointless to 'unite' a community at all.
Whoever had this initial idea is brilliant. What a wonderful use of talent that otherwise would have been not-so-creative. Wonderful.
Things like this can make a world of difference. I want to see things like this all over the struggling cities, to maybe give them a little happiness and hope.
forget this, I was testing the poor comment system.
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NICE WORK YOU GUYS. There are a lot of communities like this that need to be cleaned up and brightened up.
de color blanco también se veía bonito parecía una ciudad de Grecia o Ibiza. pero con el color ya le da un gran toque de folklor
Excellent. Art makes the world go round and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Beautiful idea, good result socially, but the council should have provided face masks to prevent the sprayed paint from clogging people's lungs.
Great!!! Repeat where possible whenever possible is my prescription! I think, unfortunately, many in the United States have minds too small to try this.
amazing use of art ...and it is quite an eye opener compared to its drab past....love it.
nice work. i don't want to be negatory but i think it's not possible to unite communities without improvements on basic economic situations. if some community members a rich and some other are living in miserable conditions it's pointless to 'unite' a community at all.
Whoever had this initial idea is brilliant. What a wonderful use of talent that otherwise would have been not-so-creative. Wonderful.
Things like this can make a world of difference. I want to see things like this all over the struggling cities, to maybe give them a little happiness and hope.
forget this, I was testing the poor comment system.
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