We spent a little bit of time this week dusting off some more older corners of the Stencil Archive's SF Artists piles. Amazing what can be uncovered, like the "Jessie's Girl" spoof stencils that showed up to razz politician Gavin Newsom. If you do not remember, he slept with an aide's wife while going through a divorce with now infamous Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Then there's the gem from a CELLspace artist who got inspired and decided to cut two sets of footsteps in the Mission District. Walk one way, or walk the other....
Finally, there was a moment in the early 2000s where Romanowski had stencils on walls all through the Lower Haight. One wall is still running and full of fun portraits and details that will make you walk up a stranger's steps to get closer.
We ended this week's revisions at Scott Williams (RIP), which we updated after his recent death. There are 100s of photos of Scott's work that you all should visit soon and often!
Still left on the updating route: S-Z SF artists > Europe Artists > the difusor 2007 stencil meeting archives > USA Artists. Still a ways to go, but we have plenty of dusting materials to get us through it.