Douglas Miles, Global Fellow and February 2017 Artist-in-Residence
Kimball Education Gallery

February 1-26, 2017
Wednesdays–Sundays, 1–5 pm
Reception: Saturday February 25, 3–5 pm

APACHELYPSE Now is a glimpse into the multi-faceted work of Douglas Miles from the San Carlos Apache Nation in Arizona. Using street art forms, he creates work that simultaneously deconstructs stereotypes and emboldens Native people in the 21st century. His renegade ethos at work creates a new iconography in art, photos, and film. The title APACHELYPSE Now is an homage to Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now about a lone poet, renegade colonel, and his tribe gone rogue from the U.S.

Douglas Miles is an artist, designer, photographer, filmmaker, muralist, public speaker, and founder of Apache Skateboards. His work encourages reflection on how art can foster community-building and promote pride and well-being, especially among young people. His work is rooted in Apache history and deeply engaged with the world of contemporary pop culture. Miles’ work has been exhibited at Princeton University, Columbia University, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe. He recently collaborated with actor and author Ethan Hawke and artist Greg Ruth on a New York Times bestseller graphic novel, Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars.

Ticket Information
The Kimball Education Gallery is located in the free zone of the museum; no tickets are required. Please drop by any time during open hours.

<<< Unicorn Hot Air Balloon, by MBI (Hamburg)

East Bay/Oakland

Hamburg, DE (thanks, txmx!)
 

Back West, in San Francisco

Upper Haight

Upper Market St. (just one)

Protest (just one; thanks, Mission Local and Josiah)

Tenderloin (just one)

Thanks to txmx's annual submission massive, Hamburg, DE may be one of the most historically-covered cities here on Stencil Archive. Of course, San Francisco's archives have over 20 years of photo documentation. Thanks to txmx for the photos! (photo at left by txmx, in Hamburg)

Over in Germany, walls are rocking!

Hamburg

El Bocho (just one)

F.P.T. (just one)

Here in San Francisco, stencils between the rainstorms…

The Mission

Protests in the streets

Eclair Everywhere

On Valencia St.

Literally in NoPa (just one)

rockin’ in Hayes Valley (just one)

<<<At the airport last weekend, in Philly

NEW inserra (from Italy, thanks txmx)

Argentina (thanks Amanda)

France (just one)

Greece (Women’s March)

Italy (thanks txmx)

UK (just one)

Meanwhile, in the USA… lots of protest stencils

NEW Bovey Lee

NEW Joseph Steininger (WA USA)

Oakland, CA

LA, CA (just one)

NYC (just one)

Philly

South Carolina (just one)

Washington, DC (just one)

I had a fun evening helping Mona Caron cut out the stencil she designed for this mural. We had tried before. A while back, I was going to cut/paint another stencil for another public art project of hers, but the muraled utility box was taken off the streets before the stencil could get painted. In the best way, these utilitarian stencils allow the viewer of the mural to see it at its best angle. Mona painted this ribwort plaintain weed in a way that makes it look flat on an unflat surface. Watch the video, and the stencil marks the spot to stand and see the magic!

In the past few weeks, between the downpours of rain, RIP ORFN tags have appeared all over San Francisco. Aaron Curry, aka ORFN, died in December after a quick, lost battle with cancer. While mostly running with the BKF and US crews, Curry's span of activity dates back to the 1990s. His tags and throws were stylish and quick; his characters were funny and easy to spot all over the Bay Area. He went large and small, and even dabbled in cutting stencils and painting sidewalks in the Mission as HUNGRY WAIF. Around five weeks ago, Curry's friend Mark Cross posted on Instagram that "in September, Aaron walked into a hospital complaining of back pain and a roller coaster of progress and reprieve (of hope and despair) ensued. He has fought hard. With unbelievable exuberance and grace. Alas, for the past few days, Aaron has remained unresponsive... asleep." ORFN passed away soon after, and is now amongst the graff writers memorialized in paint.