Ozark Street Art

I'm recording all the graffiti and street art in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The college town has an interesting mix of collegiate intellectuals and creative people, progressive liberalism, and Ozark libertarian individualism. Those forces vie in fits and starts for supremacy of the wall spaces found on decaying buildings, urban renewal projects, bike trails and hiking paths, and, here anyway, the sanctioned public art occupying city property. A college town's growth and retraction is graphically displayed on old brick, fresh concrete, and trendy commercial spaces. That all might be worth considering, even in a town dominated more by politeness and reserve than by anti-authoritarianism or vandalism.

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Bat? Fangs? Rare graffiti on a University of Arkansas building. On the historic WPA-built Ag Sciences. And a pointed ear friend on the west side of the Fine Arts Building, built by Edward Durell Stone.

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#RIP SPC 413. FUPD. Southeast School and 11th. #graffiti #whitewashed #fayetteville #arkansas #ozarkstreetart #heartgraffiti

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Power sign smile and #arky, Lafayette and Maple crossings respectively along the #RazorbackGreenway . #graffiti #fayetteville #arkansas #ozarkstreetart

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#Arky joins the 3-D rectangulars at the Hill Street ruins by the #friscoline crossing.

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#arthoe holding down the#utilitybox on South Hill near Treadwell.

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Update from the #centerstreet #friscoline trestle. #444 #kilroywashere in #fayetteville apparently. Squiggly face and #hotalthangout with #arthoe and a stencil #jynx.

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#oktoolate and a star, #Arky on culverts, bridges, and water fountain. A fading #dope. Along the Town Branch greenway in south Fayetteville.

Along Town Branch, “Arky” on the greenway,

New trail signs tagged in quick black spray paint.

Used cans, tumbled tents, bed rolls and broken

camping chairs, traveling bits left or washed out.

Bright spark of an empty vodka pint, in the long

prairie restoration between young native

Trees. A short history of Ozarks resettlement:

Arcadian dreams gone awry. Thick soft

blanket of pale catalpa petals gives way to

the violent purple stains of uneaten mulberries,

blotches on bike lane lines and fresh concrete.

From the wind driven rain and rising creek

To the desiccating July sun, piled mud cracks

then blows away. How crystalline the red

tips of October against the deep blue afternoons,

nights tramping down brittle tracks for shelter.

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#rzist Resist. From the #friscoline under the #lafayettestreet #wpa bridge. #fayetteville #arkansas #graffiti

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WA! Suave splif. Whoa saboteur. Behind the former gym in the alley off Gregg north of Dickson.

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Not sure the enforcement power or deliberative body. But there is hanging on near the Old Courthouse a #NoGraffitiZone in #fayetteville.

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Icons, spirits, water, flowers near Savoy. Under the Highway 16 Illinois River bridge. G credit?

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New bricks on what remains—3 dimensions at the doorway. On Hill at the tracks crossing. Spitting distance from the new art buildings.

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Kal and Tras in private spaces, on walls and dumpsters behind Block, visiting Bob’s Studio, Ozark Laundry, addressing road closures and whitewash at Center and the greenway and the Frisco Line bridge.

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WA and OMNI, with an old herb leaf and Nugz, early Sabot on a dumpster at Ozark Laundry and in the alley, wondering about seasonal staging in disused commercials.

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Update by the Theo’s alley. Pentagram and some other scrawl messing up that pretty wall. Some well places reminders.

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Untruths, geometry, potions, squids and spades. Behind Little Bread and Four Seasons, squeezing in the alley north of Tables and Ale.

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Instead of new stuff to choose from Fayetteville gets hacks. New tags along the east side of Block Street, by the bank and parking garage.