Radical Artists Update 12.05


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1) Call for Cut & Paint #2

Calling All Stencil Artists!

Cut&Paint: A Stencil Template Zine #2
Deadline: February 1st, 2006

We're almost sold out of the 400 copies we made of Cut&Paint #1 and we barely did any promotion, the zines sold themselves! We've decided this success demands a follow-up, so we're putting together another issue of Cut&Paint and we need your help. Once again, Josh MacPhee (Stencil Pirates book, www.justseeds.org), Nicolas Lampert (www.drawingresistance.org, www.machineanimalcollages.com) and Colin Matthes (Ideas in Pictures zine, www.ideasinpictures.org) are putting together a zine of stencil templates. This time around we plan on scaling back the size of the zine a little (legal size folded, so 7" x 8.5"), but to make up for the shrinking size we hope to include a set of die-cut stencil templates with the zine. That's right, pre-cut stencils ready to use!
Like issue #1, most of the zine will be filled with some of the best and most exciting stencil templates out there (black and white stencil images that can be cut out and used), so we're looking for your best stencil template ideas. This time around we're also open to multi-color pieces, so if you are interested send a clean black & white print of each layer, as well as a composite image.

***In addition, we would like to expand the rest of the zine, too. This means more in the how-to section, so send along any new tips you've got. We want photos of stencils from your area, we'd like to run a couple spreads of regional stencil action, particularly from places we usually don't hear from. We'll also be including some writing on stencils as well, so if you have any articles you've been working on that deal with stenciling, public space, politics, etc., feel free to submit them.

Here's what we are looking for:

*All designs should be 7x8 inches
*Templates should be clean sprays of stencils on clean white paper. Flat black paint is preferable. We’ll be photocopying these templates, so keep the lines and edges as crisp as possible. In order to get a really clean print, you can spray little bit of spray-tack (like light spraymount) on the back of the stencil so it lays flat on the paper.
*No racist, sexist, homophobic designs. Also, we’re really looking for smart and creative takes on what’s going on in the world, not copied portraits of movie stars or Japanese robots. Keep it original.
* Stencils don’t have to be hit-you-over-the-head political (i.e. Fuck Bush, although that’s fine too), but they should be interesting to more than just you and your friends! The goal is to have stencil templates that other people will want to use.
*Feel free to submit more than one template design
*Tell us if you want your template credited to a name, and if so, what name (and contact information if you want, i.e. website, email, address, etc.)
The best designs will be used for the die-cuts, so send in great stuff and we might make 1000 pre-cut copies of you're stencil!
We hope to keep the price at $5 or below, and distribute Cut&Paint #2 much further and wider than #1.

All templates that are chosen for the zine will become copyleft/copyriot (i.e. they can be freely copied and used by anyone, public domain). Everyone who has a stencil chosen for Cut&Paint #2 will get a free copy of the zine.

Send templates, photos, and writing to:
Josh MacPhee
53 Third St.
Troy, NY 12180

or email hi-res (preferably 600dpi greyscale or 1200dpi line art) templates, photos (300 dpi) or writing to: josh [at] justseeds. org

If you have any questions, drop an email to animaltrap [at[ yahoo. com or josh [at] justseeds. org

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(2) Paper Politics Brooklyn

PAPER POLITICS
An Exhibition of Politically and Socially Engaged Printmaking


Curated by Josh MacPhee


5+5 Gallery
111 Front St., Suite 210
Brooklyn, NY 11201
January 5th-February 19th, 2006
Gallery hours: Sun-Thur 11am-6pm
Opening Thursday Januay 5th, 2006
Artist Reception: 5:00-8:00 pm


5+5 Gallery, in collaboration with Josh MacPhee and justseeds.org, is proud to present a major exhibition of politically and socially engaged printmaking at 5+5 Gallery. The exhibit showcases print art which uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Originally hung in conjunction with Seattle Print Arts at the Phinney Center Gallery in Seattle, the show has been expanded for this Brooklyn engagement to include even more printmakers.

The exhibition features work by over 180 artists from the US and around the world. It is curated by Josh MacPhee, a Troy, NY-based artist, activist and author, most recently of Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil, published on Soft Skull Press. The exhibition includes work by artists who are primarily activists, as well as artists whose work may not always be politically motivated, but who wanted to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.

Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing: relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, collagraph, monotype, photography. In addition to these techniques, we are delighted to include in the show finely crafted stencils and street printing, traditional media used to convey political thought.

A 56-page full-color catalogue documenting the Seattle exhibition will be available for sale at the opening, and online at www.justseeds.org. The catalogue contains all the work in the show, as well as essays by Josh MacPhee and Deborah Caplow, Lecturer in the Division of Art History at the University of Washington, on political art and printmaking.

We hope to see you at the opening!


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(3) D.I.Y: Design It Yourself Call

Allen Harrison is putting together an exhibit it of DIY design at the Maryland Institute of Art in early 2006.
He is collecting zines, posters, shirts and other DIY work for the show which will hang from February 18-March 12, 2006.

follow this link to get information about submitting your work:
http://www.monkeybubblemedia.com/diy/

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(4) The Black r(A)t Collective needs your ART!

The Black Rat Collective publishes the young, but fabulous, New York RAT Newspaper. They are looking to incorparate a lot more art into the paper, and are actively seeking submissions. For more information or to send in images, contact them at ratattax [at] yahoo.com