Stencil Archive News

At long last, Serbia just got a great upload to the Stencil Archives, thanks to art historian and sometimes tour guide Srđan Tunić. Srđan just submitted a nice stack of photos, all from Belgrade where he is part of Street Art Walks Belgrade. As always, Stencil Archive appreciates and thrives off of your submissions and participation.

We'd never be able to do it without you!

>NEW< Serbia (RS)
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Stencil Uploads You Know You Need Part 2

Submitted by russell on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 17:07

IlseNieman — Amazing detail of the cut-paper art of Ilse Nieman

Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, u/Gudariak, u/w0f0z, u/shares_inDeleware, u/Pzy2209

Spinning: Spoon, Echo and the Bunnymen, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Calexico

>NEW< Ilse Nieman (ZA)

Berlin (just one)

France (just one)

Greece

Italy

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Stencil Uploads You Know You Need Part 1

Submitted by russell on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 13:30

Listen and Fight

Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, u/Gudariak, u/w0f0z, u/shares_inDeleware, u/Pzy2209

Spinning: Darker My Love; Herbie Hancock; Spoon; Echo and the Bunnymen; Frank Zappa

In the Western Addition, SF

Valencia St., SF

On Haight St., SF

in the Mission District, SF

Here and there in SF

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Stencil Archive at 20: Artist Weblinks Updated

Submitted by russell on Thu, 06/16/2022 - 12:57

Tip of the hat to Prez with Highlife magazine for contacting the Stencil Archive with a simple note, "many artists links are dead". After years of not wanting to grind through updating the artists weblinks, Peter's hope to use the links for a project greased the gears.

Spending many hours this week reviewing and revising the Stencil Archive artists weblinks felt like a digital archeology dig. On the top layer of the work is the recent move to https for website links. There were also about half a dozen duplicate postings that got fixed. Dig a bit more, and some links need to be updated with personal info (RIP Michael Roman) or for typos. Under these layers things get more interesting.

Some artists have quit the art/stencil hustle and websites are gone. This entailed deleting the artist's weblink page completely (RIP Arofish). Some weblink pages date back to 2008, so myspace sites were gone…