For Black History Month, Student Activities Board organised an event called, “Graffiti Workshop” on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 at the RV SV Atrium, from 11:00a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The host for the workshop that goes by the artist name, “Hobo” told the history behind graffiti, such as the need to express oneself as well as explaining what made him do art.

“It was 1981, Washington, D.C, they didn’t have, like shelters and all that stuff they have now. I was in the street. My friends, being the warm, supportive, kind people that they were, they started calling me ‘hobo’, right? Back in the day, a homeless person rode the trains, the freight trains, and went all around the country. So, they are calling me a homeless person. Not what a 16-year-old boy wants to hear, right? I flipped it on them, okay? And I started writing ‘hobo’ as my graffiti name.” Ultra explains, giving students a backstory of how he got the name, “Hobo”.

“I come from the old-school hip-hop culture, five dominances of hip hop, graffiti is the most important one, right? The second element, I would say is DJing, making music, right? The third element is hip-hop dance. The fourth element, people are actually surprised. They didn’t come so much later, MC, what you guys would call rap, that didn’t come until 1976 or so. It came a little later, the last element is a secret, it’s a trick question. The fifth element, they say, is knowledge, right? In the late 60s’ and early ‘70s, these young kids were growing up in the Bronx, and they created a whole culture that’s now taken over the planet, right? And a lot of it was these kids who were being neglected, under-resourced. The city was taking resources from the Bronx, and basically, you know, the kids in the Bronx kind of started creating their own culture.”

Attending the Graffiti Workshop was such a pleasant experience to try something new, and it was a cool way to celebrate “Black History Month.”