Capitol Hill mural project stalls, giant mauve wall remains mauve

(Image: Graffiti Defense Coalition)

(Image: Graffiti Defense Coalition)

This summer, four blank walls on Capitol Hill were supposed to get a stunning makeover from a group of local graffiti artists in an effort to promote more large-scale thematic murals in Seattle. But a dispute over the project’s Stunning Seattle brand and its creative rights has brought the mural effort to a standstill.

The Stranger reported that Stunning Seattle was mired in a potential legal tussle between two arts groups who teamed up on the mural project last year. The Graffiti Defense Coalition, which started the project in 2011, is at odds with former partners,  non-profit arts group The World Is Fun.

In an email to CHS, TWIF executive director Amy Faulkner said the group has severed contacts with GDC and hopes the group can proceed forward with a mural project — just not one called Stunning Seattle.

“We authorized the city to move forward with the GDC in December of 2012 and have not had contact with them since,” she wrote. “The issue at hand is between the GDC and the City of Seattle and we are not privy to any recent happenings.”

"What this giant mauve wall on Pike needs is a $15,000 mural," CHS wrote in 2009

“What this giant mauve wall on Pike needs is a $15,000 mural,” CHS wrote in 2009

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