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Jersey Fresh Jam highlights graffiti, street art, music and community
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on August 09, 2014 at 9:59 PM, updated August 09, 2014 at 10:04 PMTRENTON — It might be called Jersey Fresh, but it came out of a can — a spray can.
Graffiti artists from around the country flocked to Trenton Saturday for the ninth annual Jersey Fresh Jam, a festival highlighting graffiti, street art, music and community held at the Terracycle headquarters on New York Ave.
“This is a celebration of hip-hop, of art and graffiti and music,” said local graffiti writer Leon Rainbow — like most of the artists there, he goes by a pseudonym — a co-organizer of the event. “We want to bring the community an understanding, get them to know what we do and start a dialogue.”
That conversation includes the discussion on the importance of graffiti as both art and a cultural movement, Rainbow said. To illustrate his point — literally — he invited around 50 artists from across the country to transform the dull warehouse into a functioning canvass of steel, brick and wood.