Group opens Charlotte’s first graffiti park

Group opens Charlotte’s first graffiti park CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte artists now have a new place to be creative. The city’s first graffiti park opened today in NoDa. Owners say it offers them a place to express themselves without risk of getting in trouble for painting in public. The park was created through the city’s opportunity fund grant that poured $1.2 million into the Charlotte art scene. TAOH Outdoor Gallery is for creatives of any kind. “There aren’t really many limits to what creativity can be expressed here,” said co-owner Osiris Rain. “This idea has been going for years. It came from traveling to first off to Barcelona. They have a park called Park of the 3 to 3 Chimneys. That’s this beautiful industrial space, very similar to this. And I knew immediately that we had to have one here.” Rain and partner Sydney Duarte are the masterminds behind the project. They received $40,000 from the grant to build the park. Rain says it only took a little over a week. “It’s so hard with this modern area of disconnect and phones and what have you to come and have a one-on-one conversation with those of a...