She’s teaching the next generation of taggers.
A Brooklyn teacher inspired by illegal street art is training kids to how to make graffiti — by arming them with spray paint at a new art workshop.
“We talk to them about how art can appear lots of places, not just in museums — we’re pushing boundaries,” said Valeen Bhat, 31, of Park Slope, who runs the mobile art school Private Picassos.
Bhat said graffiti under the Manhattan Bridge — along with public art murals in DUMBO — gave her the idea for the “mobile workshop,” which targets kids 5 years old and up.
But she said she’s not encouraging kids to deface property or trespass.
At the workshops, teachers fill spray bottles with washable watercolor to simulate spray paint. They also use large pieces of tag board as a makeshift wall.
Private Picassos visits private homes, play centers and schools all over the city, including Brooklyn Friends in Downtown Brooklyn and PS 11 Clinton Hill.
It also serves schools in the city, the Hamptons, Westchester, Connecticut and Northern New Jersey.
“Kids see museum art that’s precise and classical — but they don’t necessary relate to it. It’s good to expose them to other concepts,” Bhat said.