Richmond Graffiti Artists Challenge City Hall, Mural Gets Re-Painted

 A ribbon cutting and dedication of the newly repainted Richmond Greenway mural was held on Thursday. What started as a simple project in Richmond became a life lesson for some high school students and for city officials who, at first, declared that their graffiti was not art.

Richard Muro and nine other young artists first put up the mural at Gompers Garden last year, but the city declared it a code violation and ordered it painted over even though it was a Gompers High School art project authorized by the owner of the bare wall facing the garden.