That’s when Miguel Badalin - from the notorious graffiti crew Reyes Del Norte - opens her eyes to an underground world of graf tags and turf wars.
She’s determined to find her own place in the art world, her own way. Even with winning artist Nathan Ramos - a senior track star and Angel’s secret crush - taking a sudden interest in Angel and her art, she’s angry and hurt. But when her entry for a community mural doesn’t rate, she’s heartbroken.
Raised by her single mom (who’s always dating the wrong kind of man) in a struggling California neighborhood, Angel Rodriguez is a headstrong, independent young woman who channels her hopes and dreams for the future into her painting. (If you’re curious, photos above are all mine, from Austin, Texas, New York City, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, respectively). If it’s not the girls themselves doing the art, then the art is leaving its own imprint on the girls. In honor of story telling, both literary and visual, here’s a look at a handful of YA books where we see girls leaving their marks as graffiti artists. It doesn’t always mean their intentions are good or legal, but this sort of mark-leaving plays a part in their story and the telling of their story, much in the way that that art tells a story, too.Įqually interesting is that the street artists/graffiti artists in these books trend toward being girls. Two books in a little under a year have featured main characters who are street artists. Street art - aka graffiti - has found a resurgence in YA fiction. I want to know the stories behind the pieces hanging out in the crooks of doors, corners of buildings, along giant walls. It tells you so much about a place - is it one full of color? Of shape? Of platitudes? Is it something the place supports and nourishes or tries to hide?
One of my favorite things to seek out while traveling is street art.
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