Stencil Archive News

During the Stencil Nation Olympia, WA stop, SOULE came down from Seattle to be at the presentation. Last Word has a free wall behind it's store, located in an alley back off the main street. SOULE brought stencils to get up on the wall. Me, D-FENS, and some other writers got up too. One woman cut out a section of SOULE"S piece to keep as an artifact. Then SOULE cut a piece out. After that, well, you should check out this slide presenation of what happened after that. Artifacts for everyone!

Just passed 9,800 photos with this Seattle-based upload. Most of this work is fresh off the road, so hope you enjoy!

• Here's a batch from Eugene and Portland, Oregon (including some Stencil Nation community painting)
• Here's the batch so far from Olympia and Seattle, Washington (including the amazing Stencil Jam)

Here are new and updated archives from some artists that have shown up on the tour:

• D-FENS (Olympia)
• Genuis (Eugene)
• Greg Boudreau (thanks KiM for taking me by the Seattle gallery for this exhibit)
• Kim/SOULE
• Pochoir Filla (Eugene)... that arabic script talks about stenciling
• Tiago DeJerk

And, finally, some updates of submitted work

• Crystal Townsend (SF, CA)
• Berlin
• Italy
• Brazil

Getting up on the free wall behind Last Word in Olympia, WA (a writer went over this ugly scrawl, and my stencils, while I gave my presentation)

My friend Danny shows off a copy of Stencil Nation, on sale at MOMA in NYC (thanks for the pic submit).

Heya all. If you aren't lurking over at my blog sites, I'm posting stories and tales while on the road.

You can catch my posts at HappyFeetTravels.org on on my MySpace page. Hope to throw up photos too if time permits.

Lots of stencil goodness so far. Word to Genuis and Pochoir Filla in Eugene and props to Tiago, Kim, and Klutch here in Portland. Many other artists coming out and saying hi too.

Loving it!

Is it really this late? Have I eaten dinner yet? Wait, it's breakfast time!

On the road after this upload. Enjoy and look for fun stuff from the tour.

• ASA in Hamburg represents
• Arnaud Crassat contacted me and submitted work for a new archive
• More work from Funk25
• MO-PI sent over a few more from France
• TXMX in Hamburg sent a huge batch this round. New archives for

• Ocioso
• Piratos
• Quasikunst

• and a batch of other Hamburg stencil work
• and Barcelona too
• here's the final batch from my Israel trip
• more from X-Sacto
• a single from North Cali
• thanks to Team Lexington for getting me out on the streets tonight for some stencil goodness
• Halsey and Chris helped me update the NYC archive
• More stencils in the Mission
• and on Valencia St.

Off to Eugene and beyond........

Heading up the West Coast to a book store near you. Stop by and introduce yourself.

Stencil slide presentation and Budget Stencil Gallery at each stop

Sun., June 15, 1 PM
Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA Center), Eugene, OR
Mon., June 16, 7:30 PM
Powell's Books Downtown, Portland, OR
(with window display by Vinyl Killers and Tiago Denczuk)
Fri., June 20, 7 PM
Last Word Books, Olympia, WA
(SOULE will be in town and at the event)
Sat., June 21, 2 PM
Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA
(with window display by SOULE)
Wed., June 25, 7 PM
Spartacus Books, Vancouver, BC
Sat., June 28, 7:30 PM
Camas Collective Books & Infoshop, Victoria, BC
Sun., June 29, 1 PM
Camas Collective Books & Infoshop
DIY stencil-making workshop

Big thanks to Klutch for dropping some vinyl (killers) on the scene at Powell's Books in Portland. That amazing bridge piece is by Tiago DeJerk (thanks!). Klutch says the window is right at the entrance, so stop by, enjoy the art, and read a few books!

Here's a batch of photos showing the Revolution Cafe exhibit, along with a pic from the Stencil Budget Gallery. Thanks to all the artists for participating, all my friends for helping out, buying drinks, and stopping by, and all the new people I met. Had so much fun this past weekend!

Janet Attard and Martin Heath put together a great display of stencil and bike love in Toronto. Thanks to everyone who put time into this and helped make it happen. (photo by Martin Reis)

If any of you have wandered over to StencilNation.org, you may have noticed that there's a "guycon" for scrolling down and reading the content on each page. Antonio Gomez, the flash guru who put that site together, even gave him what we call the "yerba mate twitch" when you click on it to scroll.

Well, the guycon came from a project I started in February with room mate and artist Halsey Chiat. Halsey's a great ink artist, doodling some amazing pieces. When I approached him to redesign the Stencil Archive logo, he gave me a final hand-laid-out and inked work that was 1 x 1 feet! We had worked out the guycon idea over the weeks prior, so I was expecting one square with 25 guycons symbolizing stencil community. I got 25 squares of 25 icons instead! His inspiration made me rethink my logo, the masthead, the business card, etc. So I worked out the one guycon idea, floating in front of 25 squares that symbolize the Stencil Archive community (no we aren't all squares, but we are all connected via stencil art). And to show some of his other community clusters, I tried to work them into the new masthead design. And the favicon is a simple version of the guycon floating in front of the squares.

To make the background interesting, I took one of Scott Williams's crazy hand-cut stencils and floated with a blue negative space.

Halsey says he's going to cut out the whole 25 x 25 x 25 block of people and paint it. I look forward to seeing his xacto skills... and know that he has the patience to cut it all out.

Halsey has a show going up June 6 (he'll hopefully stop by the Stencil Nation thang afterwards) called "The State of Lower Haight" You should check it out.

PS: props one last time to Asaf Zulah for the original 2003 Stencil Archive logo. Tee shirts of that logo are still available if you're interested (I'll have them at the book events next weekend).