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Healdarag Art Auction Benefit for Dara Greenwald

Long-time stencil geek, artist, writer, and collaborator Josh MacPhee just sent this email out. As a strong and vibrant part of our community, Josh deserves all the support we can give he and his partner Dara. - Russell

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I wanted to let you know about this on-line benefit auction: www.healdarag.org/auction
It was organized by friends to help pay for my partner Dara Greenwald's chemotherapy bills. The bidding ends this Sunday (Dec 5) at noon.

Nearly 200 artists have donated their work to raise money to help Dara, lots of cool gifts for the holidays!
The artists include:
A Literal Letter Service, Lauren Adams, Alice Attie, Bee Ayer, Kate Bae, Magda Baker, Jesus Barraza, Craig Baldwin, Caitlin Berrigan, Mary Billyou, Moe Bowstern, A Brick, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Bill Brown, Rachel Budde, Kellyann Burns, Nao Bustamante, Garrison & Alison Buxton, Kevin Caplicki, Christopher Cardinale, James Case-Leal, Melanie Cervantes, Paul Chan, Giovanna Chesler, Julia Christensen, Gabriel Cohen/Fredericks & Mae, Jem Cohen, Adriane Colburn, Compass of the MRCC, Benjamin Coonley, Cecilia Cornejo, Jim Costanzo, Bill Daniel, Carrie Dashow, Dark Dark Dark, Michael De Feo, Cecilia Dougherty, Icky Dunn, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Molly Fair, Friendly Falcons, John Fekner, Jim Fleming/Autonomedia, Su Friedrich, Colette Gaiter, Michael Galinsky, Rebecca Gates, Amber Ginsburg, Jesse Goldstein, Stephanie Gray, Sam Green, Ryan Griffis/Temporary Travel Office, Jane Jin Kaisen/Guston Sondin-Kung, Christopher Harvey, Art Hazelwood, Dusty Herbig, Corin Hewitt, Kathy High, Christa Holka, Caitlin Horsmon, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Melissa Klein, Andalusia Knoll, Daniela Kostova, Anna Kunz, Aviv Kruglanski and Vahida Ramujkic, Ann LePore, Dan Levenson, Damon Locks, Shona Macdonald, Jodie Mack, Josh MacPhee, Frank Magnotta, Jeff Mangum/Neutral Milk Hotel, Darrin Martin, Colin Matthes, Anne McGuire, Nathan Meltz, Cindy Milstein, Naeem Mohaiemen, Amitis Motevalli, Zoeann Murphy, Lucille Nurkse, Pauline Oliveros, Trevor Paglen, Laurie Palmer, Mary Patten, Roger Peet, Margo Pelletier & Lisa Thomas, Lynne Pidel, Stefen Pilipa, Endi Poskovic, Sunita Prasad, Rick Prelinger, Michael Rakowitz, Aaron Renier, Vanessa Renwick, Olivia Robinson, Favianna Rodriguez, Heather Rogers, Guadalupe Rosales, Sarah Ross, Stephanie Rothenberg, Erik Ruin, Ben Russell, Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Paul Lloyd Sargent, Lee Anne Schmitt, Nicole Schulman, Sam Sebren, Tod Seelie, Daniel Selcer, Laura Seldman, Shelley Buonaiuto, Greg Sholette, Shelly Silver, Brooke Singer, Nida Sinnokrot, Shaun Slifer, Jen Smith, Kelly Spivey, Miriam Stahl, Tema Stauffer, Jesse Stiles, Brett Story, Caspar Stracke, Astria Suparak, Sarah Sutro, Naoe Suzuki, Swoon, Astra Taylor, Temporary Services, The Yes Men, Rodney Thoms, Zefrey Throwell, Fereshteh Toosi, Mary Tremonte, Kristine Virsis, Volatile Works, Dan S Wang, Brindalyn Webster, Woodstrup & Cooley, and Pete Yahnke.

Please take the time to check it out!
http://healdarag.org/auction

Thanks,
Josh

9 Dec :: Broken Meter Zine Release : SF, CA

Broken Meter

Zine Release Party and Gallery Show
Created by Adam Rozan


Shooting Gallery
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA

...Broken Meter is a celebration of city life, a visual recording of the activity, movement, and energy of the urban environment. Broken Meter is not gentrification, trash removal, clean swept streets, and flower boxes, but rather the decay, the chipped, flaked, broken aesthetic of our culture. Broken meter is the misspelled sign, the street preacher, the converted U-Haul cardboard trucks, the old ladies and recycled cans and bottles, the graffiti tag, the covered up graffiti tagged, the re-tagging of the original piece, it is the funny face, the sad face, the busted, it is the unexpected, the hopeless, it is both beautiful, and sad, it is the Broken Meter.



235 Photos to be Thankful For!

Appreciation to all the people who submitted their photos and art!

Boruchow
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65277

X-Sacto (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=50272&g2_navId=…

North California (thanks Larry and XSacto)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=17110

Los Angeles (thanks Steven)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=16864

North Carolina (thanks Kathleen)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=16321

NYC (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=15358

South Carolina (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=15051&g2_navId=…

Washington, DC
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=16800&g2_navId=…

Radical stencils fm Lebanon
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65186&g2_navId=…

Canada, Roadsworth (just one, thanks Julia)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=2002&g2_navId=x…

C215
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=60827&g2_navId=…

gaz de la raz
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=71029&g2_navId=…

HOGRE (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68497&g2_navId=…

M-City (thanks Gary)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=60803&g2_navId=…

nabsky
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=40830&g2_navId=…

>NEW< SICKS (UK)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=72084&g2_navId=…

>NEW< theYOUNG (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=72033&g2_navId=…

Italy (thanks James)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5638&g2_navId=x…

Poland (thanks Gary)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5836&g2_navId=x…

UK (thanks Gary)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5898&g2_navId=x…

CAB (SF, CA)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65307&g2_navId=…

Eclair (SF, CA)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=11823&g2_navId=…

Get Up (SF, CA) (thanks Larry)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=71791&g2_navId=…

Valencia St.
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9775&g2_navId=x…

The Mission District
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=8411&g2_navId=x…

Haight St.
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7970&g2_navId=x…

Western Addition
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=12659&g2_navId=…

SoMa
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9477&g2_navId=x…

Richmond District (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9703&g2_navId=x…

The Tenderloin/Polk St.
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=39134&g2_navId=…

Hayes Valley (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7826

Other SF locations (thanks Ales)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9276

2 Dec :: Jeremy Novy Lets Meet Exhibit (SF, CA)

Lets Meet a collection of queer stencils from the past year by Jeremy Novy

San Francisco, CA (November 3, 2010)— The San Francisco LGBT Center is honored to present “Lets Meet”, a collection of queer stencils from the past year by Jeremy Novy. Novy's is considered one of the up and coming street art celebrities of San Francisco and street art world itself. His koi fish stencils found through out the city have gained him acceptance by not only the street art community of San Francisco but also complements from the Cities Department of Public Works. Yet this exhibit is about something much deeper then just adding beauty to urban blight. It's street art with a social message against homophobia. This exhibition, opens with a reception on Thursday, December 2nd from 6-9 pm and runs through December 30th. Novy has made a limited edition print, signed and numbered, for the 50 guests, along with having Pabst Blue Ribbon beer on hand. Novy was recently commissioned by Joe Pabst, owner of the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee, WI, to stencil koi around the Mansion pool.


SF Artist Jeremy Novy thrives

S.F. artist Jeremy Novy thrives in outdoor gallery

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Jeremy Novy is walking South of Market, deciphering his own hieroglyphics.

"That's two men kissing," he said, pointing to a stencil of two sets of boots facing each other on the sidewalk.

On the side of an abandoned ice machine business, a life-size, shirtless man in a cowboy hat leans seductively. "That's an iconic gay image," Novy said. "Like a two-step guy. Or a Marlboro man."

Scribbling in a language of doodles, stencils and graffiti, Novy uses underground street art to honor San Francisco's gay history. Much as Keith Haring's anonymous chalk drawings in the New York subways drew attention to gay culture in the 1980s, Novy is emerging as San Francisco's street whisperer.

Until 07 Dec :: Burner Stencils (Berlin, DE)

When:
Saturday, October 23, 2010 7:00 PM -
Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:00 PM CET


Where:
Eckstück
Wrangelstr. 20
Berlin, x-berg 36

..the art of cutting stencils.

featuring:
- artiste ouvrier
- dave the chimp
- dash3ultra
- czarnobyl
- bohomaz
- pisa 73
- plotbot
- emess
- azione
- bonk!
- m:m

20 Nov :: Celebrate People's History Book Release Party/Exhibit (SF, 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 - Saturday Nov. 20
The Center for Political Education
522 Valencia St, SF
www.politicaleducation.org


Since 1998, Celebrate People’s History posters have documented feminist organizers, indigenous uprisings, civil rights leaders, union struggles, LGBT activism and much more. Bay Area history stands out with posters on Los Siete de la Raza, the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, the International Hotel and the 1966 transgender riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. The Feminist Press has just released over 100 posters in hardback, and the book’s West Coast premiere includes a poster exhibit, book signing and artist panel.

Featured Speakers:
Lincoln Cushing, historian,  www.docspopuli.org
Favianna Rodríguez, artist,  www.favianna.com

FREE admission. Donations go to MacPhee’s partner, Dara Greenwald, who is battling cancer.

Stencils in the Underbelly of NYC

Street Art Way Below the Street
By JASPER REES (NY Times)

A vast new exhibition space opened in New York City this summer, with a show 18 months in the making. On view are works by 103 street artists from around the world, mostly big murals painted directly onto the gallery’s walls.

It is one of the largest shows of such pieces ever mounted in one place, and many of the contributors are significant figures in both the street-art world and the commercial trade that now revolves around it. Its debut might have been expected to draw critics, art dealers and auction-house representatives, not to mention hordes of young fans. But none of them were invited.

In the weeks since, almost no one has seen the show. The gallery, whose existence has been a closely guarded secret, closed on the same night it opened.