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Living Walls: Festival, Call for Poster Art

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We are calling for street artists to submit posters with no constraint on quantity or size.

Public Walls

  • Art work will be put up on various walls around the city of Atlanta.
  • All posters will be thoroughly documented with all artists credited.
  • Events will be scheduled locally around the city of Atlanta in order to give the public notice about the international poster exhibition which has taken place.
Call for Art

Joe Boruchow Releases "Stuffed Animals" Cutout Graphic Novel

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Stuffed Animals: A Story in Paper Cutouts, my first graphic novel, will be released the evening of March 19th in conjunction with a debut performance by my band, The Nite Lights.  The show includes a slide show of the graphic novel with an instrumental musical score played live by the band.  Four years in the making, the book was awarded a Xeric Foundation grant for graphic fiction allowing for the publications of a hard bound edition that will be available at the show.  
Stuffed Animals is a narrative composed of 100 black paper cutouts.  It tells the tale of a young boy and his shocking discoveries over one adventurous and terrifying night.  An apparition from the past guides the hero through a dangerous secret world in this masculinecoming of age story.  Is manhood more than just a mustache?  Get the book and see!
In addition to celebrating the release of the book at Johnny Brenda's (1201 Frankford Ave, Philly) on March 19, The Nite Lights will debut our most ambitious project to date.  We have been composing the music since November for the 20 min long slide show of Stuffed Animals that will be shown silent movie style with the live band.  (We're hoping to have a DVD of the slide show and music available at the show, but this is now tenuous because the recent snowfall put us a little behind schedule.  I am, however, hopeful that we will have them).  The Nite Lights will play it twice: once at 9 pm (for early birds) and again later at 12am (for you night owls)  with the sweet sounds of Mondo Topless, Northern Liberties and DJ Brown Jeff sandwiched in between for an extra delicious evening of artsy entertainment.  Of course, the book will be available for sale at the event.
Tickets for the event are on sale at www.johnnybrendas.com. To buy the book now visit www.kettledrummerbooks.com or it will be available at most Philadelphia independent bookstores soon.  More at www.joeboruchow.blogspot.com
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11 March: Orticanoodles New Works, Paris

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ORTICANOODLES SOLO SHOW
“NEW WORKS”
GALERIE ITINERRANCE – PARIS

VERNISSAGE 11/03/2010 h. 18:00
dates: 11/03/2010 to 04/04/2010
Galerie Itinerrance
7 bis, rue Gouscinny 75013 Paris
Horaire d’ouverture:
Du mercoledi au samedi de 14:00 a 19:00

Curated by Shamanta Longhi | Stencil History X

In the Galleries

Stencil Nation 3rd Print Out Now!

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Jennifer at Manic D Press just contacted me to let me know that the 3rd print run of "Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art" is out now and ready to hit your coffee tables and local (hopefully indy) book stores. Keep an eye out on upcoming Stencil Nation appearances here and there throughout the spring and summer!

DISTRO INFO (for any interested shop/gallery owners):

  • USA
    • Consortium 800-283-3572
    • Last Gasp 415-824-6636 contact: Jon Longhi
    • Ingram 800-937-0995
    • Baker+Taylor 800-775-1800
    • Manic D Press 415-648-8288 contact: Jen Joseph
  • CANADA
    • Publishers Group Canada 1-800-747-8147
  • UK + EU
    • Turnaround PSL (London) 020 8829 3000
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