Since 2002, your old-school website for all things stencils. StencilArchive.org is a home for 1000s of photographs, videos, and more. This site has been DIY from day one. All donations/support directly pay the bills for hosting and updating this site.
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Thanks to: Amanda, @graffitiradical; @streetartutopia; @Emily_Lykos; @journo_cam; @lilith2u; @mango_lacroix69; Brooklyn Street Art
Spinning: Dead bootleg cassettes
Visiting with Xavi in the Mission
Paint drying on this World Cup pic in Argentina
Bike power Brazil
Massive Statement in Mexico
First stencil from Thailand
Another one on Iranian walls
A new stack from New York
Opinions in Ohio
Serious in Seattle
Thanks to: Amanda, Chris B., @graffitiradical; @streetartutopia; @Emily_Lykos; Brooklyn Street Art; podinski @vim_media
Spinning: JEMP radio
Classic 1969 Señor Suerte by Chaz Boróquez
Ecuador (just one)
China (just one)
Iran protest stencils
Russia antiwar one
Keeping up with street art and stencil books gets a bit overwhelming, especially when a search on Amazon for "stencil graffiti books" gets a few direct hits, along with books about tattoos, comic art, and yet another book trying to make money off of Banksy.
Today, an upcoming book by C215 (here is his Stencil Archive) caught our eye on social media, mostly because it is a how-to book that appears to be made with love and full of tips, encouragement, artist stories, and all that other funs stuff Stencil Archive loves to share and spread around.
We did it with our own book "Stencil Nation", and we have had a "Make Stencils" category on this site since 2004. Searching around the web today, we saw that Tristan Manco (who may have written the first modern book about street art stencils in 2002) did it again in 2020 with his latest book "The Stencil Graffiti Handbook" (Though this is the UK publisher's link, I'm sure it's available on Amazon, etc.).
Christian Guémy has created a similarly-titled book, "The Stencil Graffiti Manual" for 2023. Brooklyn Street Art's Jaime Rojo got an advanced copy and teased the book here.
According to the BSA post, "'The book that you are holding in your hands is therefore, a manual, an inventory of techniques to be appropriated in order to get yourself started in the art, or to help you develop stenciling’s potential. Stencils have no limits and can be adapted to all styles,' says the author in his introduction."
Move along now if you want to buy anything! Just some free stencil pics if you dare to continue!
Spinning: WFMU
Banksy in Ukraine
M-city at the Colab Gallery
Amanda Marie at the Colab Gallery
Xavi back in San Francisco
a 2000 Faile stencil (thanks, Brooklyn Street Art)
Praxis in NYC (thanks, BSA)
Eclair in SF
Misstencil in Chinatown, SF
I cut my images from black paper with an X-Acto knife. Everything is connected. It is all one piece of paper, yet now it holds a story.
General thanks to: @graffitiradical; @streetartutopia; @Emily_Lykos; and Brooklyn Street Art
Spinning: Nick Cave, Sarah Vaughan
California (thanks David Drexler)
North Carolina (just one; thanks Scott Speer)
Puerto Rico (just one)
Hijack (just one)
Niz in Austin, TX (thanks Adam K.)
Took long enough!
>NEW< Otist (FR)
Jeremy Novy at BRC
a John Fekner classic (thanks, Brooklyn Street Art)
Praxis (thanks, Brooklyn Street Art)
Voxxromana (thanks, Jeremy Novy)
