Cornbread | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Cornbread_with_Beteve_in_Barcelona,_2022.jpg) Cornbread in an interview with Betevé in Barcelona, 2022 | |
| Born | Darryl McCray 1953 (age 70–71) |
| Education | Strawberry Mansion High School |
| Known for | First graffiti writer |
| Notable work | Cornbread Lives |
| Style | Tagging |
| Movement | Graffiti |
| Spouse | Consuela Sanchez |
| Partner | Cynthia Custuss |
Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered the world's first modern graffiti artist.[1][2][3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in Philadelphia, by writing their monikers on walls across the city.[4] Independently to Philadelphia, the graffiti movement was evolving in New York City and blossomed into the modern graffiti movement, which reached its peak in the U.S. in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then spread to Europe. McCray later worked with the Philadelphia's Anti-Graffiti Network and Mural Arts Program to help combat the spread of graffiti in the city. He is currently a public speaker and a youth advocate.
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- ^ "Fresh Cornbread: the Philadelphia artist who invented graffiti featured in Philadelphia gallery". WHYY. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ WHYY, Peter Crimmins. "Cornbread, the first graffiti artist, shows new work at Philadelphia gallery". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ CIA, Deal. "History of Graffiti Pt. 1". Retrieved 4 April 2014.