Bloch knows how dangerous art can be for aerosol warriors: their imaginations arrested and expressions pathologized. He also elucidates the undeniable brilliance exploding on walls, utility poles, and underpasses.

Jun 30, 2023 · Stefano Bloch, associate professor in the School of Geography, Development and Environment, explains how some graffiti writers have moved from outlaw taggers to sought-after artists.

Mar 12, 2024 · NPR's A Martinez talks to University of Arizona Associate Professor Stefano Bloch about the graffiti that has transformed empty skyscrapers in Los Angeles into a symbolic battleground.

Jan 6, 2020 · Artist and scholar Stefano Bloch has written a story that is personal, but also a primer on graffiti’s history and artistic and social import.

Bloch holds nothing back in this fierce, poignant memoir and ethnography. Going All City is an unflinching portrait of a deeply maligned subculture and an unforgettable account of what writing on city walls means to the most vulnerable people living within them.

Feb 14, 2020 · As a tagger — one who paints a nom de plume on virtually any city surface with aerosol, marker, or roller — he is the ultimate insider in an outsider subculture, a legend for his productivity...

Going All City is the mesmerizing and painful story of these young graffiti writers, told by one of their own. Prolific LA writer Stefano Bloch came of age in the late 1990s amid constant violence, poverty, and vulnerability.

Feb 20, 2020 · During his time as a graffiti writer, Stefano Bloch was chased by the police, threatened by gangsters and witnessed savage violence. He tells Jack Grove about how he has incorporated such experiences in a powerful memoir that also makes an important contribution to research on urban life.

Nov 14, 2019 · Going All City is the mesmerizing and painful story of these young graffiti writers, told by one of their own. Prolific LA writer Stefano Bloch came of age in the late 1990s amid constant...

Bloch’s story is personal, but also a primer on graffiti’s history and technique, as well as its artistic and social import.” — Hyperallergic. Stefano Bloch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Arizona.