Graffiti for good? Colorado-based non-profit The Other Side Arts strives to empower emerging artists and under served poulations through visual arts programming. Had graffiti artists paint the wall.

In the video above, TOSA originally designed the wall with graffitti, but the police painted over it because assummed the language carried messages of anarchy. Well after some legal battles, free speech ultimately prevailed and the local government gave the organization $10,000 to hire artists to paint it a second time. Watch the video to see the process.

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