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27 Jan : "Un artiste - Un univers" : Jef Aérosol

Du 27 janvier au 30 avril 2011 

Chaque hiver, dans le cadre de l'événement Un artiste - Un univers, le musée des Avelines, musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Cloud donne carte blanche à un artiste contemporain invité à prendre possession des lieux pour y déployer son univers. C'est l'occasion pour les visiteurs de découvrir une personnalité, un monde et de s'interroger sur une œuvre contemporaine. Cette année, l'exposition présente l'artiste Jef Aérosol qui travaille le « pochoir de rue ».

L'exposition invite le spectateur à pénétrer dans l'univers original et fascinant de Jef Aérosol. Elle présentera un grand nombre d'œuvres de l'artiste, notamment des portraits. Une installation en boîtes de carton, crée spécialement pour l'occasion, prendra également place dans l'exposition, sous forme de pyramide.

L'exposition s'accompagnera de nombreuses animations telles que des performances de l'artiste et des ateliers pour enfants permettant d'appréhender la technique du pochoir.

http://www.saintcloud.fr/musee/

20 Dec. :: Stencil Nation Book Presentation, Greenville, SC, USA

"Russell Howze is a native Greenvillian and a stencil artist. He runs the Stencil Archive and published the collection Stencil Nation: Community, Graffiti, and Art in 2008, documenting the work of over 350 artists from 28 countries. The Stencil Nation Book Tour will stop by the Warehouse Theatre Monday, December 20 at 7 PM." Check out the rest of the Create Greenville interview here. FaceBook invitation and info found here.

17 Dec :: Celebrate People's History at AK Press (Oakland, CA)

ONE DAY ONLY

Poster Exhibit - Book Release Party - Artist Panel

 

CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Edited by Josh MacPhee

Foreword by Rebecca Solnit

Published by the Feminist Press

 

7pm – Friday Dec. 17

AK Press, www.akpress.org

674 A 23rd St

Oakland 94612

 

Since 1998, Celebrate People’s History posters have documented feminist organizers, indigenous uprisings, civil rights leaders, union struggles, LGBT activism and much more. The Feminist Press has just released over 100 posters in hardback – Celebrate People’s History: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, edited by Josh MacPhee with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit. The book’s West Coast premiere includes a poster exhibit, book signing by Bay Area contributors and artist panel.

 

Featured Speakers:

Sabiha Basrai, graphic designer, Design Action Collective, www.designaction.org

Lincoln Cushing, poster historian, www.docspopuli.org

 

FREE admission. Donations go to author Josh MacPhee and his partner who is battling cancer. This event is wheel-chair accessible.

 

Mission Muralist, Sometimes Stencil Painter, Pico Sanchez Dies

Stencil Archive shouts "vive!" for artist Pico Sanchez, and gives thoughts and meditations to his close friends and loved ones.
Sanchez, 63, died unexpectedly in his sleep early Monday morning. A painter, printmaker and muralist, he was president and a longtime member of Project Artaud, the pioneering artists' live/work space and culture complex on Alabama Street.

Read the whole post here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inthemission/detail?entry_id=78110

Pico's Website:

http://www.picosanchez.net/