Month: July 2019

The following video is an impressive example of a professional pressure-washing business removing spray-paint vandalism from the walls of an industrial building in downtown Los Angeles. The team is using a spray-paint removal product call World’s Best Graffiti Removers. The team first brushes on an application of the World’s Best Graffiti Removers product across all of the affected surfaces. After a short amount of time to allow the removal product to settle in, the team uses pressure-washing to successfully clean the spray-paint vandalism from the walls. The walls have been successfully cleaned without damaging the underlying surfaces, which include brick and metal.

Disclaimer: Maryland Citizens Against Vandalism (MCAV) is a non-profit organization with no commercial interests in any particular commercial graffiti removal product. However, MCAV does advocate for particular graffiti-vandalism cleaning methods that prove to be successful in removing graffiti without damaging the original surface.

One of Maryland’s epicenters for cutting-edge creativity is opposed to spray-paint vandalism. The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)—no stranger to creativity outside the box— “considers defacement of public or private property to be vandalism, not artwork” according to their website. Their website also states that MICA “is strongly opposed to graffiti and other forms of vandalism.” However, MICA does support public art, as does the Maryland Citizens Against Vandalism (MCAV). Here is what MICA says on their website about the promotion of public art:

As a community of artists, we advocate for a broad range of opportunities for expression of our students’ creative vision through exhibitions, performances, and programs that provide opportunities for community-based art such as murals and public performances. 

For the full policy statement from MICA, visit https://www.mica.edu/mica-dna/policies-and-institutional-learning/policies/institutional-policies/graffiti-vandalism/.