Girl meets spray can: ‘Graffiti camp’ teaches Bay Area teens how to tag

Some of the most legendary muralists and graffiti artists in the world leave their mark in Clarion Alley.

Nina Wright, aka Girl Mobb, has spent nearly a decade making sure teenage girls know that this alley — and other public art spaces across the Bay Area — are places for them, too.

Graffiti Camp for Girls originally started as a one-off project. Wright and a friend of hers, Deirdre O’Shea, got a grant from Southern Exposure, an arts nonprofit based in the Mission, to teach local girls how to use spray paint by making a collaborative mural. After the inaugural camp, held in Berkeley in April 2017, it was clear they were onto something…

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