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Stencil Nation in Chattanooga's Times Free Press

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Stencil Nation

Russell Howze encourages people to expand their idea of art.

By: Holly Leber

Original article found here.

Mr. Howze, of San Francisco, will visit Rock Point Books this Saturday to discuss his book, “Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community and Art,” a photographic collection of stencil work done by an international collection of artists.

After seeing his first stencil in 1990, Mr. Howze became enamored of the idea of creating a historical document of a public, ephemeral art form.

“(I’m intrigued by) the impermanence of the art form in the streets,” he said. “It fades away and almost always gets painted over.”

Stencil art, Mr. Howze said, breaks the rules. The style differs from traditional graffiti. The work is mysterious, often done anonymously.

“Sometimes…

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Stencil Nation Q&A in Atlanta Journal

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There's a great feature on stencils coming out Sunday in the Altantal Journal Constitution. First, Drew Jubera talks with Transmit Device to get his angle on stencils in Atlanta. Drew then hit me up with a phone call last week while I was in the Charleston, SC area. He did a good job combing through my long-winded answers to get the gist of what I was saying. I have taken note of this for future interviews.....

Original link here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/arts/stories/2008/12/07/stenc…

VISUAL ARTS
Author explores urban landscape of stencil graffiti
‘Urge to leave their mark’ fuels artists

By DREW JUBERA

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Russell Howze spotted his first… Read more

Aeroart features Romanian Stencil Movement

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The online magazine Aeroart has recently launched it's third issue dedicated to the stencil movement in Romania. It contains pictures from galleries such as Stencil Exhibition and A-camp, but also presents works done by The Orion, Coate Goale, Otaku and many more.

(rapid share will force you to wait about 2 minutes before you can download the file.... good stuff! - Russell)


http://rapidshare.com/files/162919904/REVISTA_AEROART_NR_3.2008-ENGLISH…

Paper Mag: Marc Schiller on Commerce

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The Original Link to Paper Mag is Here

Marc's Original Wooster Post is Here

Props to Crystal for the tip

Last year Marc Schiller wrote a blog for his site WoosterCollective.com called "The Banksy Effect," in which he addresses the abrupt and remarkable changes that were taking hold in the London street-art scene. To Schiller, it appeared that after five years of just barely inching along, the market for street art in galleries had suddenly hit the roof, and the kinds of pieces that had gone unsold for years prior were selling at an insane rate and even crazier prices. Schiller could think to chalk it up to only one thing, or man, rather: Banksy, the Bristol-born stencil artist whose work went from streetscapes to auction house must-haves in a hot second, and who was fast becoming a major figure in the fine-…

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Obama image painted on Republican Club building

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama made an appearance here over the weekend at the campaign headquarters of the Republican Club of Southeast Volusia, or at least his image did.

A likeness of the Illinois senator, in purple spray paint, was stenciled on the front window and outside columns of the Third Avenue headquarters overnight Friday.

Club officials reported the vandalism Saturday morning and told police they would be willing to prosecute the responsible party.

"I think it is some un-American, uninformed and misguided individual," headquarters committee chairman Bob McKeen said.

Fellow Republican supporter Jerry Rowen said his sign promoting the John McCain-Sarah Palin candidacy suffered the same fate…

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Nowhere to Paint, Nowhere to Learn

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Nowhere to Paint, Nowhere to Learn (Find Original Article Here)
Posted By: Jason Youmans
07/30/2008 8:00 AM

By cracking down on street art of all sorts, has the city lost a valuable tool in the battle against bad graffiti?

As Monday learned after publishing a recent editorial in defense of graffiti, it seems no one in Victoria likes the lowly tagger. But in a city quick to buff the first sign of unsolicited spray paint from its walls while offering no alternative for budding Banksys* to feed their egos and make their names known, the Garden City is setting itself up for a tourism-dependent town’s worst nightmare—an endless cycle of really crappy graffiti.

Monday recently caught up with a decade-long veteran of the local aerosol art community to talk about the city’s graffiti scene, why there are so many trashy tags and what happens when there’s no place…

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Graffiti Cops a Spray: A1one in Melbourne

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Graffiti cops a spray

Fiona Scott-Norman
August 1, 2008

I suppose a time may come when graffiti is as inert and respectable as a David Williamson retrospective, but it's as likely to be in the near future as the Lygon Street Starbucks lasting past the weekend.

As an art form, graffiti has transgression and contention coded into its DNA; it's illegal, it's public, costs a packet to clean up, and it seriously pisses people off.

But street art can also be beautiful, political, deft and clever, and it's definitely on the ascendant. The work of British stencil artist Banksy is sought after, worth thousands, and is increasingly being acquired and preserved under perspex. Melbourne is on the international map as one of the world's stencil art capitals, and our graffiti-fat laneways attract fashion and film shoots in droves.…

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Graffiti Vandals turn Violent in LA

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Graffiti vandals turn violent in LA
Aug 1 02:35 PM US/Eastern
By THOMAS WATKINS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One man got stabbed. Another got shot in the chest. A 6-year-… Read more

URBAN SCRAWL IS SPREADING IN [New York] CITY

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By CHUCK BENNET
NY Post (Link to Original Article)

April 21, 2008 -- Graffiti arrests and complaints are skyrocketing as so called "taggers" treat city walls as their personal canvases, new police statistics reveal. The NYPD recorded and unprecedented 81.5 percent surge in graffiti-related complaints from 2006 to 2007. During the same period, graffiti arrests spiked nearly 28 percent. "We did an excellent job turning the tide against graffiti in the '90s and the beginning part of this century," said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens), the chair of the council's Public Safety Committee who has turned the war on graffiti into a personal crusade. "Unfortunately, because of the lack of police officers, the fact that they have to do double duty and combat serious… Read more

No hefty price tag for ignoring S.F. graffiti

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No hefty price tag for ignoring S.F. graffiti

Original SF Chronicle Article

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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