BRATTLEBORO — Stone Arch Properties owner Mike Cota woke Monday to see two of his downtown buildings colored by more than 200 cans of spray paint.

Cota knows he asked for it. Literally.

“A year ago, I thought, ‘Even with all the mediocre graffiti that’s down here, a lot of people love coming to take pictures,’” he said. “It’d be a shame to get rid of it, so what if we did something to improve it?”

That’s why Cota teamed with the nearby Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and Brandon-based Juniper Creative Arts to host a weekend “Graffiti Jam” that drew 15 professional “aerosol artists” from as far away as Slovakia.

Vermont’s largest city of Burlington recently made news when someone spray-painted over part of a $10,000 Main Street mural elementary students created near their school

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