Borderland Jam in El Paso evolves from ’90s roots to global event

This may have been the 11th official Borderland Jam, but artists have been painting in that same spot since the mid-1990s.

Back then, they’d show up with backpacks full of spray cans, searching for walls where their work would get the most visibility.

They found it at the Frontier Foods & Cold Storage warehouse, 1601 E. Fourth Ave., in Segundo Barrio. After school, they kept coming back, day after day. With permission, they gradually gained access to more space, expanding their art as writers put their names up on one wall at a time…

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