The Citizen's Corner Art Park - Shelton McMurphy Blvd. Eugene OR - Graffiti on Waymarking.com

A personal art project to see what might happen has turned into a local graffiti art park. Two billboard sized and several smaller "wooden canvases" are here for anyone to use. They sat for a few years mostly white with the occasional piece of objectionable graffiti (profanity, Nazi symbols, etc.) that had to be covered over. Then someone called a local columnist about the "white billboards" near the train station. Activity here picked up over the course of the summer and sometimes the canvases changed overnight. Ever evolving artwork. Some good, some bad, but at times it can be stunning.

Register Guard Feb. 17th, 2008 Close to Home Q & A Column

Question: In a vacant lot, just west and across the railroad tracks from the Amtrak station, there are two white billboards with usually nothing on them but graffiti. Why are they there?
Answer: According to a source at Jenova Land Co., which owns the property, permission was given a few years back to an art student - school unknown - to erect the billboards just to see what would happen. What happened is people would spray graffiti on the billboards and Jenova would, if finding it offensive, blot it out. The company has no plans to take down the billboards.

By Bob Welch, The Register-Guard

Type of Surface: Canvas

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