Selfish taggers ruin nonprofit building

On the drive in to work this morning, I was in an unusually great mood for a Monday, but it was short lived after I couldn’t help but notice that the building across the street from KIRO was vandalized with graffiti.

This building is currently occupied by the nonprofit art collective Love City Love, a space where co-founder Amos Miller says “[a]nybody can come express themselves, whether it’s visual art, creative poetry, music, singing.” Rachel Belle recently did a terrific feature on them here – it’s very much worth a listen.

The site of the extensive vandalism is just sickening. Not only did the graffiti cover much of the building’s exterior, but it also is painted on the glass windows.

I know the culprits behind the vandalism don’t read this blog or listen to talk radio, but if by chance this makes it way to them, I hope they understand the damage they’ve done to a nonprofit. These taggers are selfish degenerates and a symptom of a generation of jerks who don’t quite understand that when they decide to go out on a tagging spree, there are actual victims. In this case, the victims happen to be a group of people who simply trying to do some good in this city. And the volunteer members of the cooperative spent countless hours and thousands of dollars of their own money fixing the building up.

Here are some more photos of the damage:

If you have any information on who vandalized this building, please contact the Seattle Police Department.