Lady Spray Day '25 at Morgan District Walls
Interview by T.K. Mills
Photos by Giulia Feleppa
Published on July 5th, 2025
On Saturday May 24th, over 15 female graffiti writers and artists gathered for ‘Lady Spray Day,’ an event dedicated to allowing women to creatively express themselves, as part of the Morgan District Walls (MDW) curatorial program.
The project is led by local legend and graffiti writer DEK2DX. DEK, who recently spoke with Undetected on his experiences in the culture, took the time to answer some questions from UP Magazine on MDW on its origins, and hopes aims for the future.
Mills: What is Morgan District Walls & How did it Start? How did you become involved?
DEK2DX: Morgan District walls is an outdoor graffiti art museum. MDW is a collection on legal space in and around the Morgan L train station. Morgan District Walls is a collection of legal walls that mainly focuses on the art of aerosol graffiti art. I began being involved with MDW by creating relationships with local business and exhibiting to them by installing high quality graffiti art. Also being that the community is filled with warehouses and buildings that have the potential to beautify the area.
Mills: How do you curate the artists and writers who you provide with walls?
DEK2DX: We do our curation based on the size of the space, and the right and qualified graffiti artist that can install their art. We’re developed a rubric that examines how well artists have developed their style of their lettering. But, we try to have an “open door” policy while upholding the standard of our rubric that is comparable to the skills of qualified and creative artist around the world. We also work with local and international artists to show all forms of graffiti artist around reflected around the world.
Mills: What was the inspiration for ‘Lady Spray Day’?
DEK2DX: The inspiration behind “Lady Spray Day” is to give the women of graffiti a space to show their skill sets and express themselves artistically. Our goal is to provide a space for them to exhibit and showcase their talent, dedication and discipline to execute large scale artwork. It’s also a great way to celebrate them for these highly skilled executions.
Mills: In your view, how was graffiti culture in Brooklyn changed in the past few years?
DEK2DX: I would say, in the past few years I have noticed that graffiti art has become more palatable to the community. In my personal experience I have seen how Graffiti has touched many observers. I feel that out of our five senses our visuals tend to be the strongest, and when you beautify an area, it will attract more people creating a community behind it. I think in the past few years, the ones who grew up looking at Graffiti at a young age, are now young adults and can appreciate the skill set design, creativity behind graffiti art, and its way more accepting these days than in past few years. With this happening, I believe more over in Brooklyn there has been an explosion of external art being displayed in different communities which tends to beautify the neighborhood.
Mills: What are your hopes for the future?
DEK2DX: Well, our hopes for the future would be that more people would come in and embrace the culture and community behind Graffiti art. That people would get educated with graffiti art history, especially being that Graffiti art is a New York City based art form that now has touched the entire globe. We are hopefully looking to expand more legal walls to beautify the neighborhood, which also gives an opportunity for more artists to install art and express their creativity to the fullest. With this hope for the future, we are looking to eventually have Graffiti art jams where this can bring community, revenue awareness, and playing old joy within our community.
T.K. Mills is the Editor-in-Chief of UP Magazine, a street art publication based in New York City. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Global Affairs, he discovered a love for graffiti while backpacking through Cuba and pursued life as a writer. Outside of UP, T.K. enjoys writing poetry, personal travel essays, and occasionally short stories. His work has been published in The Smart Set, The Vignette Review, Genre Urban Arts, and Eternal Remedy among others. Beyond art, T.K. loves reading and traveling.
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