Welcome to the new/updated site! The Archives and search function may look a bit different, but it is still the same good time. Since 2002, your old-school website for all things stencils. Please consider donating what you can to support the much-needed upgrade. Photo submissions always welcome. Enjoy and stay curious.
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Jessica Tully presents Syndicate for BAN5
BAY AREA NOW 5 OPENING, homies!
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street in San Francisco
Project:
Syndicate: A Walking-tour of site-specific ground stencils at San Francisco's Union Performance Houses
10,000th Photo with New Uploads
Crack out the wine! Throw the confetti. Stencil Archive just saw it's 10,000th photo get uploaded tonight.
Here is the official photo that hit the milestone amount, a Zapata poster I saw on the May Day march here in San Francisco (location: Mission and 9th St.; artist: BTS)
Here are all the other great uploads that went on the site today:
- A large batch from my recent travels in Canada
- A few more from Washington state
- Didn't find many in Colorado (thanks x-sacto for your submissions)
- TXMX sent another batch from Hamburg
- Small submits from the Los Angeles area, the Philippines, NYC, Portugal, and the UK
Here are the artists submissions, small and large
- a1one in iran
- x-sacto in Cali
- Tiago in Portland
- Larry Cyr in Washington state
- Logan Hicks in NYC
- Quasikunst in Hamburg
- Maxam in Austria
- mo-pi in France
- yAD in Norway
- tona in Hamburg
And the current photos from San Francisco
- Valencia St.
- SoMa and the Financial District
- the Mission
- Clarion Alley
- Haight Street and Duboce Park area
- Hayes Valley
- Other places in SF
A toast of respect to all the artists, friends, and photographers who have kept the submssions coming since 2002. Really appreciate it and hope to see dozens more new stencil photos in the coming years!
Adam5100 and Michael Genovese at White Walls, SF, CA
Rakka
i'm in the middle of a year long project called "suspect and fugitive" where i make an item a day out of nonarchival materials.
www.flickr.com/photos/rakka/sets/72157603831017760/
i primarily use stencils to make the pieces.
A1one on the Walls
If you live in USA - Ireland or Australia
Stop and take a look at these URLs ,
you may have the chance to see a Group exhibition Also including A1one's Original Pieces.
USA
http://www.artcal.net/event/view/6/7483
Dublin
http://www.flickr.com/groups/759254@N22/
KiM's Weekend of Fun
The next upcoming few days should be full of fun and heat in the Seattle area,
Thursday is the 'all girl show' at the Twilight Artist Collective in West Seattle the Opening party is 6-9pm Come buy some art!
http://www.twilightart.net/
4306 SW Alaska St. Seattle, WA 98116 p 206.933.2444
Tuesday – Friday 11AM to 7PM / Saturday 10AM to 6PM/ Sunday 10AM to 5PM/S Closed Mondays
Located across the street from Key Bank, between Edie's Shoes and Easy Street Records
Stencil History X Tour: Spain
to the 20th of JULY 2008
Miscelanea Gallery
c/Guardia 10
BARCELONA
www.miscealena.info
www.myspace.com/stencilhistoryx
www.flickr.com/stencilhistoryx
tesura
Logan Hicks: the beautiful prison, London
A Solo show by Logan Hicks
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Black Rat Press
Thru Cargo Garden
Arch 461
83 Rivington Street
London EC2A 3AY
Tel: +44 (0) 207 613 7200
http://www.blackratpress.com
http://www.workhorsevisuals.com