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Artist Erik Gonzalez’s abutting activity will spotlight changeable graffiti artists at the Queens of Style accident at the old Lumber Yard on Saturday, March 5.(Photo: Teresa Douglass/Inspire)

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In abounding ways, Tulare County can acknowledge Erik Gonzalez for authoritative “graffiti” a absolute aperture for active announcement and art.

He has taken what is usually advised “tagging” and defacing acreage and apparent adolescence how to actualize art that is not vandalism.

As a kid, Gonzalez admits he did his allotment of aerosol painting.

“I grew up in a bad allotment of L.A. Skateboards and graffiti kept me out of gangs,” he said. “But I corrective skateboard ramps, bridges and alleys; things that absolutely wouldn’t aching the public.”

He was lucky.

A abecedary encouraged him to use his aptitude positively. A beautician boutique assassin him to acrylic a wall. Aback his ancestors confused to San Jose, graffiti art was starting to curl in burghal centers.

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A music abundance in Gilroy assassin him to acrylic signs and murals to advance the movies and musicians.

That opened up added jobs.

When added businesses on the artery saw what abundant announcement the artwork was, they assassin him too.

“Before you knew it, there was painting all up and bottomward the street,” he said.

“One of the affidavit I do what I do is that aback I was young, addition gave me the befalling to do my art and acquire money,” Gonzalez said. “That’s why one of my focuses is to appearance adolescence they can excel with their artistic skills.”

(Photo: Marina Gaytan/mgaytan@visaliatimesdelta.com)

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Opening doors

In San Jose, Gonzalez started volunteering to architecture posters and use his art. That opened doors to jobs alive with youth. As a case worker, he helped boldness adolescence issues and acquisition resources, but he consistently begin a way to accommodate art. He organized graffiti shows and expos.

Ten years ago, Erik and his wife and accouchement confused to Visalia, afterward his in-laws.

“In the beginning, I didn’t see an admirers for graffiti art here,” he said. “But now we’ve been actual advantageous by accommodating in added projects and creating some exposure. Bodies are seeing the brighter ancillary of the art form.”

Caroline Koontz, controlling administrator of the Arts Consortium, aboriginal saw Erik’s assignment on a Aboriginal Friday in the Alley show. She was afflicted and talked about it with Tulare County Supervisor Phil Cox, which eventually led to the anti-gang Step Up graffiti shows are done by acceptance anniversary year.

Then Arts Visalia arrive Gonzalez to accept a show. He got complex with the Arts Consortium and had aerosol acrylic demos at the old Lumber Yard during the aboriginal Taste the Arts Festival in 2011.

“They saw how abounding adolescent bodies we admiring to the art show. It was absolutely successful; we had bags of bodies abutment us.”

Lorenzo Loza, left, Ricardo Avila, Jonathan Esquivel from the Boys & Girls Club and Erik Gonzalez put the finishing touches on a mural forth the St. Johns River abreast Cutler Park. (Photo: Ron Holman/Inspire)

Urbanists Collective created

Out of that event, Erik and added graffiti artists created the Urbanists Collective, absorption on apprenticeship and absolute amplification of burghal art.

Since then, Gonzalez has gotten grants and allotment to do projects at nine aerial schools and average schools.

In The One Love Project, he formed with acceptance in four rural communities to actualize art about ecology issues.

“We asked adolescence their account about the environment. Anniversary accumulation corrective a pillar. They abstruse they can accomplish a aberration in their community. It opened their minds to accurate themselves through art.”

Vaness/DJ Agana in advanced of her art work. (Photo: Submitted)

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Upcoming project

His abutting activity will spotlight changeable graffiti artists at the Queens of Style accident at the old Lumber Yard on Saturday, March 5.

“Some of the girls we formed with at the aerial schools anticipation of it,” Gonzalez said. “There has been an access of changeable graffiti artists. We’re bringing in a aggregation of able graffiti women that are internationally known.”

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The artists will actualize a mural in one day. The Lumber Yard additionally will be bent with bounded artists, apprentice artists, announced chat artists, vocalists, and musicians. Also, bounded account groups will action artistic activities to absorb everyone.

A few weeks later, Gonzalez and adolescent Urbanist Joel Martin will be at the Lumber Yard during the South Valley Artists’ Flat Art Tour March 18-20.

The Lumber Yard has begin a additional activity as the Urbanists art flat with advice from the burghal and the Arts Consortium.

(Photo: Steve R. Fujimoto/Inspire)

Making a active at art

Erik’s burghal art assignment has now accustomed him to abdicate his day job to focus on his painting up and bottomward the state. He was assassin by Levi to acrylic a accomplishments on denim canvas for an MTV allowances concert on AIDS awareness.

The Samuel Adams beer aggregation had him acrylic alive murals during contest for their distributors. He was afresh in L.A. alive on a beautification activity and introducing adjacency murals.

And he got a abruptness aback a Fresno allowance aggregation asked him to actualize a mural central their office.

“I gave them several sketches, one application added acceptable book and one with a graffiti look,” Gonzalez said. “They told me; they capital the graffiti lettering. They capital to represent the close city, aggressive by a cruise to San Francisco.”

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Erik Gonzalez, right, gives tips to Tessa Stillwater from right, Atray Serrato and Everett Koontz on how to acrylic a association art mural at the Tulare County Museum of Farm Labor and Agriculture amid in Mooney Grove Park in Visalia. (Photo: Steve R. Fujimoto/Inspire)

Will graffiti art go mainstream?

As the Urbanists abide to do alive painting at the farmers’ market, participate in an art appearance or actualize posters for an after-school program, graffiti will become a capital stream, Gonzalez said.

He tells acceptance that graffiti art can be a abreast art anatomy and that there are opportunities to use it in announcement and architecture markets.

“It’s accepted for adolescent bodies to say there’s annihilation to do here, but I acquaint them that instead of complaining, they should accomplish things happen,” he said. “We appearance them that there are career opportunities for abreast and artery art.”

Koontz believes Gonzalez is different because he can chronicle to both the bartering and recreational ancillary of graffiti art.

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“He’s assuming that graffiti art does crave a lot of talent, and bodies who are acclimated to accomplished art can chronicle to it,” she said. “At the aforementioned time, he’s additionally abutting to youth.”

Because the Arts Consortium is in allegation of renting out the Lumber Yard, Koontz has talked to bodies about space, which has admiring attention.

“One columnist was attractive for a graffiti background, but one after any assemblage signs. She absolved to the Lumber Yard and admired it, so she came in to hire the amplitude for a photo shoot.”

Way aback in his boyish years, Gonzalez never anticipation his aptitude would advance to well-respected assignment and afflatus for adolescent people.

“A guy I had formed with aback he was a apprentice contacted me. He had been in bastille for a while, but now he was canonizing things I told him and was reconnecting with his art,” he said. “When I had a appearance in San Jose, I ran into addition I formed with aback then, and he said the aforementioned thing. That’s what is rewarding. Something you said had an aftereffect on a person.”

Queens of Style art accident is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 5 throughout city Visalia, including the Visalia Lumber Yard, Oak and Garden streets and the Arts Consortium on the bend of School and Church streets.

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