Today’s guest is Dr. Janice Rahn. As a professor at the University of Lethbridge, Janice spent her career working on issues relating to art and education. In 1997, she wrote an early account on Canadian hip-hop called “Painting Without Permission.” The article, which featured in the Material History Review was later adopted into a book by the same name in 1999. Both pieces, look at describing her own experiences in the early to mid 1990s discovering graffiti in Montreal and getting to know the community personally.  The book is relatively hard to come by today, however the article mentioned is readily available online and I highly suggest you give it a read. This conversation centers around her experiences in the Montreal Graffiti scene, her findings, as well as thoughts on the current scene and its influences.