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26 Jun :: Shoreline Arts Fest, Wash. State

20th Annual Shoreline Arts Festival

June 26 and 27, 2010
Saturday 10-7 and Sunday 10-5
18560 - 1st Ave NE, Shoreline,WA


Creating Our Future: Choose the Arts!

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council celebrates its 20th annual festival with the theme "Creating our Future: Choose the Arts!" Please join us as we explore how the arts will impact our future as they help shape our community at the 2010 Shoreline Arts Festival. The arts inform us and bring us together, while creativity and technology go hand in hand in this digital age. There is something for everyone at this two-day community event.

26 Jun :: Streetart Summit 6, Slovakia

[Stanicia (Station) hosted a Stencil Nation book presentation almost two years ago in Zilina, and a huge crowd came out from all over the country! After presenting in the gallery to about 60 people, Pod and I DJ/VJ'd some and then spent the rest of the night in the bar. Woke up the next morning to commuter trains and commuters drinking their coffee. Always worth making a trip to visit these good people. - Russell]

Tak ako prichádza leto, prichádza opäť akcia STREETART SUMMIT číslo 6. (www.myspace.com/streetartsummit).
Dňa 26. júna 2010 sa od 11.00h do 20.00h bude konať už po šiesty krát streetart a graffiti jam. Aj tento krát sa to cele premelie pri kultúrnom centre Stanica Žilina-Zárečie za podpory primátora Mesta Žilina (www.zilina.sk), pod záštitou Stanice Žilina-Záriečie (www.stanica.sk) a Ateliéru 314 (www.atelier314.eu).
Maľovať sa bude na legálnej ploche za Stanicou, v prípade zlého počasia v podchode pod rondlom. (Samozrejme za podmienok udržania čistoty v danom priestore a neporušenia okolitých budov žiadnou deštruktívnou formou).

26 Jun :: LGBTQ Stencil Workshop in LA

Join Center for the Study of Political Graphics local artists & activists to make stencils for LGBTQ rights!

Everyone Welcome!

Sat., June 26, 1pm to 5pm
At the Peace Building
8124 West Third Street Los Angeles, CA 90048


This workshop is being held in conjunction with CSPG's upcoming exhibition Out of the Closet & Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations, premiering July 3 - September 26, 2010 at the ONE Archives & Museum.
Selected stencils will become a part of the exhibition.

For more information contact Mary Sutton, Program Director at CSPG 323.653.4662 · msutton2@politicalgraphics.org · www.politicalgraphics.org

Stencil Archive Uploads: 275 from B to U

Just got a tiny Archive issue fixed so here are the freshest uploads from the past month.
hippie music provided by last.fm :: tea is peppermint :: browser is Chrome

Banksy in North America + Cut Outs (tnx Tino, et al)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=4284

Bolivia (single :: tnx Mona)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68580

boruchow (PA)

Urban Soule Summer Update

Dear Friends,
Summer is finally here and there is much to do in outdoor activities... this email focuses on the Open Air Festivals I will be participating in! Please do stop by,say hello and enjoy the outdoors with some crisp lemonade and new art work!

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June Happenings!


room 218 hostel [ http://www.hostelseattle.com/ ]

The room I painted at the Hostel

#218

SWEET STREETS (AU) call for art

We would like to invite you to participate in SWEET STREETS - a festival of Urban and Street art in Melbourne. Re-branded from the Melbourne Stencil Festival (since 2004), Sweet Streets wishes to celebrate a range of art styles on the streets and in the galleries, that are integral to urban art culture around the world. Download PDF entry form here.

14 Jun: Mixed Messages, DirtyPilot

http://www.dirtypilot.com/

DirtyPilot presents “Mixed Messages” features work from artists Ben Frost, PaperMonster, Justin Lovato, JoKA, and Michael Owen. This group show brings together some of the most unique art styles and techniques. Ben Frost known throughout the world for his manipulation, juxtaposition, of pop imagery. Stencil artists PaperMonster combines stencil and collage techniques to create striking portraits of women. Justin Lovato creates new world with his detailed line work full of characters and imagination. Michael Owen takes on rugged texture, shapes, and figures combined with wonderful use of color to create chaotic and stunning pieces of art. Finally, JoKa brings an unique new way to paint using thousands of small dots through using toothpicks as opposed to a brush resulting in vivid layered images. Mixed Messages brings together art that makes your eyes question what you are seeing, how it was made, and what each artist’s true message is.