Located just outside of downtown Cleveland, the Clothcraft factory (AKA the Read More Books Building)…includes graffiti works by Monster Steve, ASERT, HECK, BEERS, and a slew of other Cleveland and Midwest writers.

Scrambling to your feet, it becomes absolutely apparent at first glance that you are in the middle of nowhere.

Blackberry bushes line the edges, deer move stealthily through the tall grass, and the sounds of skateboards cracking the cement shoot through the air.

It was promoted as – “an eye-popping exhibition featuring the work of eleven emerging artists from Stark County. The work will literally fill the Museum’s main gallery, floor to ceiling in the style of the Parisian salons of a century past, but with a clear focus on cutting-edge art of today.”

One of the aspects of graffiti that I enjoy is that it’s usually found in long forgotten pockets of space. Cleveland in particular has a plethora of abandoned buildings and decomposing work sites that tell a tale of a once mighty industrial powerhouse that has suffered a turn for the worse.

To most people the concept of Professional Wrestling seems like an oxymoron, but to others it is a dream they are willing to chase down the sewage drain and across the globe.

Fed up with the unfair taxation and resource control exercised by the conservative Furniture Faction, the chalkboards, who had long considered themselves part of the Ceiling and Wall Coalition, staged a dramatic failure of a coup.

In keeping with a running undercurrent in Pink Eye, we’ve decided to include a few outstanding landscaping trends from the summer of 2009 in everyone’s favorite progressive city – Cleveland!

Stencils often depict characters or people, although they can be political in nature as well. Anyone familiar with Shepard Fairey (OBEY) or Banksy, knows what stencil art is truly capable of.

Drunky McPisserpants, Doctor Pee-Pee, Pants Off Pete, Drunky McStagger, Crash, and That Annoying Drunk Guy. You go by many names, and we all know you.