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L'expo d'été de Miss.Tic à Dauville court encore jusqu'au 5 octobre à la Galerie La Bohême, 14 rue du Général Leclerc. Checkez le site du Miss.Tic Fan Club.
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The Miss.Tic summer exhibition in Deauville is still running until October 5th at Gallerie La Bohême, 14 rue du Général Leclerc. Check the website of the Miss.Tic fan club.
$35 general admission
$50 VIP admission
SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA
More info here
Join us for an exciting evening!
DirtyPilot.com and PaperMonster have teamed up to present some of today's most talented stencil artists in a group show titled "Friends With Knives" opening on September 18th. The show will feature works from artists such as LECKOmio, E.L.K., SOULE, Peat Wollaeger, PaperMonster, L.E.T. , Nathan Phaneuf , A1One , Billy Mode, Ben Slow, Koleszar, Dave Lowell, Mefee, Roy Schreuder, and HAHA. Friends With Knives aim is to highlight the beauty behind stencil graffiti styles/techniques such as photo-realism, pop, and political stencils at global level with artists hailing from Iran, Germany, USA, Australia, France and the United Kingdom. Be sure to check out more over at DirtyPilot (http://dirtypilot.com) or visit PaperMonster (http://papermonster.wordpress.com) for more info.
The Teleport Caper: Beyond the Pale
by David Wills
One grey day Sunday in January 1976, after I had been visiting with the graphic-designer Barney Bubbles, I walked from The Barbican four miles to stay at what had been my old flat on Basset Rd. with the vivacious Lucinda Cowell*, whom I had met one Saturday in the Bridge kaff on Portobello.
Somewhere on the journey, around Camden Town, I found a sombrero that added to my somewhat odd appearance. By the time I got to Notting Hill, and having sprayed my recently cut stencil in a couple of places, I got too careless and was busted, literally red handed, spray paint dribbling, as I stenciled, on a traffic-light control box, “Street Lightnin’ Gang Rules Easy, OK.”
This art was one of a series of cardboard stencils I had designed that related to SLG President Molly (now Mrs. Mark Bode) Rodriguez’s ‘World Teleport’ system of world free transport. It was an early green solution to reduce world pollution from cars and planes, World Teleport’s tag line is “Get’s you where you want to go, in your own time.” (A line that was later adopted by the Grateful Dead.) All one has to to do is brand a space with a stencil, (it can be on paper) and there’s your teleport. If you really want to, you’ll get there one way or another.
Vernissage le 14 septembre 09 à partir de 18h00
Du 14 au 30 septembre 2009
Galerie Pierre Cardin
3, rue Duras – 75008 Paris – Métro Champs-Elysées Clémenceau
Ouvert du mardi au samedi de 12h à 19h.
Go here for more information!
No country craft stencils here! It looks like silk screening, but it's stenciling!
The Stencil class will be taught by Kim McCarthy aka SOULE of Urban Soule Design.
This class jumps into action with Kim guiding you through the entire process from the creation of the stencil,
to applying the stencil image on multiple surfaces,using a variety of mediums. Learn to transfer your images onto fabric, paper, wood and many other surfaces.
This is a very fun, hands-on class so you should wear "painting clothes".
Students are encouraged to give renewed life to their vintage clothes, bags, 100% cotton shirt or fabric. (100% cotton works best but a cotton/poly blend will do, shirts with ribbing (raised vertical lines) do NOT stencil well)
also recommend: pillow cases, tote bags, sketchbooks, canvas, etc... which you should bring to apply your stencil(s) on.
Art Cycle # 3 and Macaframa
Sept 10 2009
at Inoperable Gallery
Vienna, Austria
www.inoperable.at
www.macaframa.com
www.flickr.com/photos/inoperable
Inoperable proudly presents its third annual exhibition of bicycle inspired art from around the world.
111 Minna Gallery is proud to host NeighborhoodSF, a group show featuring some of San Francisco’s most exciting and prolific artists, co-curated by Ryan Malley of the ArtPrint.net and Martin Olive of sQuint. NeighborhoodSF is a collection of San Francisco’s finest artists who are each given the task of representing this City’s many unique neighborhoods, showing at 111 Minna Gallery from September 3rd through the 26th, 2009.
San Francisco is without a doubt, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Its neighborhoods are each legendary in their own way and it’s residents are iconic in their varied personalities.
(From Adbusters via Nuart's blog)
Guerrilla gardening and street art come together in this recipe for green mayhem. Get out there and spread some spores!
Ingredients:
-1 can of beer (or 12 oz yoghurt)
-1/2 tsp sugar
-Several clumps of garden moss (found in damp, shady places)
1. Rip the moss into small chunks, blend with sugar and beer (or yoghurt) until smooth and creamy.
2. Find an appropriate location (fairly moist without too much sun).
3. Using a stencil or freehand, paint your design.
4. Over the next 2–3 weeks revisit the spot and spray-mist your design with water.
5. Watch your green design grow!
