I found another article on www.kcet.org called "The Legal Street Art of Santa Barbara," by Ethan Stewart. Stewart first starts his article saying, "Santa Barbara has a certain reputation in the outside world and generally speaking, it doesn't include graffiti." He then expresses calling Santa Barbara "the Sunny Seaside Hamlet," and saying how Santa Barbara's known for their red tiled roofs, nice sunny weather, and clean city. But then he talks about the first block of East Mason Street, where you come across a T-shirt shop with displays of legal graffiti art on it's outside walls. Now this wall wouldn't have even become reality if it wasn't for a local art scene fan named Laura Inks who opened a small gallery store with her boyfriend just across the street from the T-shirt shop that will display the works of street art. Soon after looking at the old building before it became a complete mural gallery, Inks with help from friends devised a project known as A.M.A.S.S (Artists Making a Street Scene) which helped open up an opportunity to display graffiti legally on the streets of Santa Barbara. With which after gaining permission of coarse the T-shirt shop displays all these amazing murals that stand as examples of the hard work and dedication Inks brought to her city.
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