Graffiti studio surface5/26/2023 Instantly taken with his new name, Cornbread felt compelled to share it with the other boys. He loved it so much, in fact, that the YDC’s cooks nicknamed him “Cornbread” when he would not stop pestering them to make him the cornmeal quick bread he’d grown up eating with his grandmother. In 1965, Darryl “Cornbread” McCray, now widely considered the world’s first modern graffiti artist, was a 12-year-old troublemaker housed at Philadelphia’s Youth Development Center (YDC).Īs you may have guessed, McCray loved cornbread. Ĭornbread & The Unlikely Beginnings of Modern Graffiti Art ![]() Indeed, long before the giant murals, fashion runways, larger-than-life art shows and unlikely street art millionaires, modern graffiti art got its start in the belly of a Philadelphia juvenile corrections facility, with a single word scrawled in small caps across a cell wall: C ORN B READ. ![]() ![]() Given the monumental influence graffiti art has had on our popular culture, from music, film, and television to fine art, toys, and clothing, it’s easy to forget the form’s humble roots and remarkable evolution - how what started as a way for bored kids to pass the time grew into a movement larger than anyone could possibly have imagined.
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