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Shane, owner/curator of Art Whino in National Harbor, MD, snapped this pic of me and the crowd during my presentation on Sunday. About 20 people listened to the presentation and many more who dropped by to look at the walls (note the Stencil exhibit on the walls behind the screen) stopped to listen a bit.Joe Boruchow began making paper cutouts while stenciling posters for his Philadelphia based rock band The Nite Lights. As his stencils became more intricate and less durable he began making prints from the cutouts and the resulting black and white images they produced have become a mainstay on Philadelphia’s posting boards and telephone poles.
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EYE TO EYE - invisibleNYC - LES, New York, NY
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The first is a show that I curated in New York on the Lower East Side at InvisibleNYC. I know it is late notice, but if you are in town, and have time to stop through, the opening is today (Thursday, November 20tt). The opening starts at 7:00pm and goes to 9pm.
For this show, I picked three great friends who all have a unique style.
Nous sommes heureux de vous convier au vernissage de
We're happy to invite you to the opening of
JEF AEROSOL DEFENSE D'AFFICHER
en présence de l'artiste
Jeudi 27 novembre à partir de 18h30
thur nov 27th, from 6.30pm
URBAN PAINTING
Opens November 22th
Atrion
via S.Francesco N°2, Carugate
Milano
ITALY.
You can find the original article here. I've found stencils on the streets here, mostly on stickers.
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Russell Howze is takin' it to the streets. Hitting the road this month in support of his summertime release, Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art
Tonight's one-hour presentation will focus on an overview of the art form, verbal and visual, including a slide show, examples of stencil art from around the world and actual cut stencils. In addition, Howze plans to go hunting for some of Philly's own stencil art. "I'm looking forward to wandering some alleys and streets in Philly so I can find some work to put on my Stencil Archive Web site," says Howze. "It'll be good to go back to the source of modern graffiti as we know it, which started in Philly and blew up in NYC soon after. Personally, I think I enjoy discovering it more than anything."
