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Seattle Street Art. Book Series - A Visual Time Capsule Beyond Graffiti. In Seattle, WA USA there is a culture that is represented anonymously in the reclaimed public spaces of the city. Images dot the urban landscape in the typical street mediums that are used acrossthe globe; spray paint, stickers, paste-ups, stencils, wheatpasting,posters, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing, installations, post-graffiti, mosaic tiling, murals, wood-blocking, LEDart, reverse-graffiti and yarn bombing. This book is a small window into this temporary world that's constantly being revised in a flux of new symbols. It's a snapshot of work on the Seattle streets over about a 3 year period, a visual capsule in time, not a comprehensive representation of Seattle street art and the people involved over the years. Some of the work only existed for a day before it was written over by other artists or removed by the city... a reminder that nothing is permanent, and control is an illusion in the chaos of a city.

We serve 5,000 at-risk youth between the ages of 8 and 18 annually. As a youth development non-profit, we use year-round, outdoor sports to engage underserved students in long-term mentor based relationships. Our core value curriculum integrates outdoor experiential learning, character development, community service, values-based leadership development, social justice advocacy, and peer mentoring. Through each of our programs, SOS participants are encouraged to transform themselves and others for the better using our six core values of courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom, compassion, and humility.