Stencil Archive

Process Invisible, Results Are Visual. New work by Klutch and Ashley
Montague plus a poster/sticker installation featuring street artists
from around the world.

"the internet's largest collection of stencil graffiti images and information" 

Well, not really (thanks to Stencil Rev), but it is the largest in the USA!

Check out their blurb

No person shall write, paint or draw any inscription, figure or mark of any type on any public or private building or other structure or any other real or personal property owned, operated or maintained by a public benefit corporation, the city of New York or any agency or instrumentality thereof or by any person, firm, or corporation, or any
personal property maintained on a city street or other city-owned property pursuant to a franchise, concession or revocable consent granted by the city, unless the express permission of the owner or operator of the property has been obtained.

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Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle

By Jane Perlez, New York Times
Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia

By Kirk Semple, New York Times
Published: July 9, 2004

This essay was originally written for Josh MacPhee's Stencil Pirates book. Parts of the text were used in the book's final run, but here it is in its entirety. Note: this is in no way a comprehensive history of stencil art. Hopefully it is the beginning of the artform's history.

"We need to learn how to spread the vision of liberation and life everywhere in humble, small, invisible ways. Like grass slowly growing up through the cracks in the concrete, perhaps our counterinformation can eventually sneak up on the mighty machine and topple it."
- PB Floyd, Slingshot, Summer 2003