Sucka Punch Graffiti Jam 2026
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Sucka Punch Graffiti Jam is an uplifting celebration of graffiti, hip-hop culture, and community — a three-day festival in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, that brings together artists, youth, families, and neighbors.
The first and oldest element of hip-hop, graffiti is a people’s art based in storytelling through modern hieroglyphs, bold letters, vibrant colors, and abstract expressions. Sucka Punch brings that energy to fall foliage season in Vermont — it’s the festival you didn’t see coming!
Sucka Punch is organized by Juniper Creative Arts, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Stone Arch Properties, and Downtown Brattleboro Alliance — with care, intention, and deep respect.
Featured Artists
@marthalicia | @tiffypants | @mbody.one | @willkasso | @oneeightyone | @tameartz | @repoenueve | @letraslatinas.95 | @vise_1_boston | @soldanopaints | @irysrock | @_capes1 | @eskaeone | @wheelywillie | @plasmaslugz | @dip_soulion | @eikonology40 | @crom_graff
DAY 1: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 5-8
GRAFFITIBORO
The heart of the Jam. Watch graffiti artists and writers from across the country paint live throughout all three days, transforming Arch Street into an evolving outdoor gallery of large-scale work.
THE ART YARD
Drop in at the Art Yard during Gallery Walk for creative activities for youth and families.
Make Your Own Blackbook
A graffiti blackbook is a sketchbook where writers develop styles, practice lettering, and exchange drawings. Blackbooks are the training ground for graffiti artists.
DAY 2: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 12-5
GRAFFITIBORO
Watch Arch Street come alive as artists and writers paint throughout the day, building out large-scale pieces and transforming the block in real time.
THE ART YARD
Drop in at the Art Yard throughout the Jam for creative activities and workshops for youth and families. Make your own Blackbook, join a Blackbook Session, color a pollinator for the community installation, and explore other art activities happening throughout the day.
Make Your Own Blackbook
A graffiti blackbook is a sketchbook where writers develop styles, practice lettering, and exchange drawings. Blackbooks are the training ground for graffiti artists.
The Blackbook Passport
Pick up your Blackbook at Sucka Punch HQ and take it with you around the Jam. Complete the workshops and activities, collect tags from artists in your book, and fill up your Blackbook Passport. Complete the challenge and bring it back to Sucka Punch HQ to claim a prize!
Leave Your Mark, Pollinate with Art
This drop-in community art activity led by Alexa Herrera Condry of Juniper Creative Arts is open to all ages and experience levels. Choose a POLLINATOR cut from polytab fabric and make it your own using acrylic paint markers.
WORKSHOPS
Blackbook Sessions | 1-2 • 3-4
Before the wall comes the blackbook. Bring your Blackbook to this hands-on youth workshop where you’ll learn the foundations of graffiti style writing and character design while exploring the role sketching has always played in graff culture. Open to youth of all ages (under 12 with a guardian), participants may experiment with letters, characters, and personal style, building confidence through repetition, practice and play.
FUNKtional Dynamix w/StyleFX Studios | 1:15-1:45 • 2:45-3:15 • 3:45-4:15
FUNKtional Dynamix is a creative movement experience designed for all ages and skill levels. The FUNKtional side provides accessibility for everyBODY! It’s also unique, playful, expressive, and rooted in funk and soul rhythms and grooves. The Dynamix side explores an array of techniques, tools, and approaches participants will learn and use to create movement. Throughout these workshops, participants will explore the connection between music, movement, creativity, and self-expression while gaining a better understanding of the roots and influences of Hip Hop Dance and Culture.
Graff Bratts Stencil Art | 2:15-2:45 • 3:30-4:00
ARCH STREET BLOCK PARTY | 6-10
Let’s keep the energy going after dark with the Arch Street Block Party! Doors open at 6 p.m. DOS, lyricist and director of the Worcester Hip-Hop Congress, will host the night and kick things off with an open mic cypher, followed by live performances starting at 7 p.m. featuring a headlining performance by underground Hip-Hop legends El Da Sensei of The Artifacts and DJ Mr. Len, founding DJ of Company Flow, with an opening set from Bronze Nazareth. Sucka Punch resident DJ Ahmad Shakir and DJ Reez of StyleFX Studios will be spinning throughout the night. Come for the art. Stay for the beats and rhymes. We’ll close it out on the dance floor.
DAY 3: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 12-5
GRAFFITIBORO
Check out the final day of live painting along Arch Street as artists put the finishing touches on their pieces and watch the full outdoor gallery come together.
THE ART YARD
Drop in at The Art Yard throughout the Jam for creative activities and workshops for youth and families. Make your own Blackbook, join a Blackbook Session, color a pollinator for the community installation, and explore other art activities happening throughout the day.
The Blackbook Passport
Pick up your Blackbook at Sucka Punch HQ and take it with you around the Jam. Complete the workshops and activities, collect tags from artists in your book, and fill up your Blackbook Passport. Complete the challenge and bring it back to Sucka Punch HQ to claim a prize!
Make Your Own Blackbook
A graffiti blackbook is a sketchbook where writers develop styles, practice lettering, and exchange drawings. Blackbooks are the training ground for graffiti artists.
Leave Your Mark, Pollinate with Art
This drop-in community art activity led by Alexa Herrera Condry of Juniper Creative Arts is open to all ages and experience levels. Choose a POLLINATOR cut from polytab fabric and make it your own using acrylic paint markers. Each finished pollinator will become part of a collaborative art installation along the retaining walls around Arch Street, creating a growing swarm of color made by the community.
WORKSHOPS
Blackbook Sessions | 1-2 • 3-4
Before the wall comes the blackbook. Bring your Blackbook to this hands-on youth workshop where you’ll learn the foundations of graffiti style writing and character design while exploring the role sketching has always played in graff culture. Open to youth of all ages (under 12 with a guardian), participants may experiment with letters, characters, and personal style, building confidence through repetition, practice and play.
FUNKtional Dynamix w/StyleFX Studios | 1:15-1:45 • 2:45-3:15 • 3:45-4:15
FUNKtional Dynamix is a creative movement experience designed for all ages and skill levels. The FUNKtional side provides accessibility for everyBODY! It’s also unique, playful, expressive, and rooted in funk and soul rhythms and grooves. The Dynamix side explores an array of techniques, tools, and approaches participants will learn and use to create movement. Throughout these workshops, participants will explore the connection between music, movement, creativity, and self-expression while gaining a better understanding of the roots and influences of Hip Hop Dance and Culture.
Aerosol Art Immersion | 1-4
Spend the afternoon getting hands-on with graffiti and aerosol art. Led by Will Kasso Condry of Juniper Creative Arts, this workshop for teens ages 13–17 starts with a quick look at graffiti culture and history before jumping into style writing, characters, and designing a production together. From there, the group will learn spray painting fundamentals, including can control, outlines, fills, and other techniques for taking your ideas from blackbook to wall. Space is limited. Advance registration required. Click here to register.
Graff Bratts Stencil Art | 2:15-2:45 • 3:30-4
A hands-on painting activity led by Jennifer Herrera Condry of Juniper Creative Arts where kiddos ages 5–12 can try out the art of spray painting using stencils and spray chalk.
Photos & Videos
Check out the video below from Sucka Punch 2025 and these photos from 2025 and 2026. Feel free to download and share. Please credit the photographers, and tag the artists, @suckapunchgraffjam, @junipercreativearts, and @brattmuseum.
Credits
Grant funding for Sucka Punch Graffiti Jam is provided by the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation.
This event is sponsored by The Alchemist, Amalgamated Culture Works, Stone Church, Brattleboro Food Co-op, Aerosol Legends, NBQ Pro Spraypaint, The Void, Latchis Hotel & Theater, Homestead Builders, and the Bunker Farm.
