Stencil Archive News

Start Your Week with Fresh Stencil Uploads

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How did April end so fast? I know, by not leaving the flat.
Photo: Stay the F--k Home, by PolarBear

Several more from Xsacto

New submissions from Joe Wackerman

>NEW< Joshua Wingerter (NOLa)

>NEW<

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Pre-Earth Day Stencil Archive Uploads - Listen to the Silent Trees

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Welcome back, xsacto! It has been too long. Also, thus ends the 2020 TXMX submissions (unless I pull pics off of his Flickr)
Photo: xsacto's Alfred E. Zappa, with the walking birds (chirp, chirp).

xsacto returns!

fnnch gets in on the COVID-19 reaction

>NEW< Anagard, Indonesia

>NEW< Seileise (Hamburg DE)

>NEW< Zelos (Hamburg DE)

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Literal COVID-themed Upload Stencil Special

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Submission thanks to: TXMX, Josiah, Tiago, LisaRuth, Larry S., Steven Bracco
Photo: Free Hugs Cancelled wheatpaste by Jeremy Novy

Surprise Quarantine Visit with TXMX uploads from Hamburg

COVID-related, from fnnch (the Castro, SF)

COVID-related, from Jeremy Novy (just one)

COVID-related, from San Francisco’s…

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Monday Quarantine Uploads - Stay Safe Out There

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Submission thanks to: TXMX, Peter, Josiah, Brooklyn Street Art, NY Streetart, evanwier, and Everything4Everyone
Music: Monk, Dylan. 
This photo: artist - FAKE; photo - evanwier (Reddit)

This week’s submissions, A-Zed:

C215

Chile (protest walls)

F.P.T.

Italy (Rome)

Le Loup

Los Angeles (just one)

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Shelter in Place Uploads Special

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Wash those hands! Be safe! Maybe don't go out painting right now??
Music: Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Echo and the Bunnymen
Submissions, photos by: Josiah, niklaq, RobertPower415
This photo: In Sacramento, CA (RobertPower415/reddit)

Istanbul (just one)
Banksy (just one)
Hamburg (just one; more TXMX uploads coming soon)
Sacramento

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New TXMX pics cont. - Artists Special

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Another quick round of photo uploads from TXMX in Hamburg, DE
Photo: art by Marshal Arts; photo by TXMX

New Pics: TXMX goes all Hamburg for your social distancing pleasure

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Once again, Stencil Archive welcomes the annual submissions from one of the site's longest-running collaborators. We always enjoy seeing what's going on in the streets of (mostly) Hamburg, DE and TXMX gets the goods. Thanks always, and hope all is well with you over in the EU zones.

The ass bubbles stencil: art by zoon; photo by TXMX (Hamburg, DE)

Since you're supposed to be inside and distanced, get a little closer with three dozen TXMX photos of art in the Hamburg streets. More artist uploads coming soon!

Pre-Spring Uploads for the Stencil Archive

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Thanks for submissions: Brooklyn Street Art/Jaime Rojo, Raven, and Josiah
Musical support: the best band from Vermont
Coming soon: The 2020 TXMX uploads (all Hamburg)!
Photo: Ensemble Reel wheatpaste on Haight St., SF, CA

Banksy
>NEW< Ensemble Reel (FR)
>NEW< amazing cut paper art of

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Stencil Pic Uploads for Jan.

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On the turntable: Beck, Beatles, Rush (RIP Neil Peart)
Photo: Haight Street, SF (artist unknown)

Several dozen from Portland, Oregon

>NEW< Skam

Voxx

Banksy

Berlin (thanks, Brooklyn Street Art)

mimi the clown (just one; thanks, BSA)

Colombia (just one)

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Thanks, As Always - Tour Reviews - RIP Vayable

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Back in 2010, Banksy promoted his documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" by painting walls across North America. He decided to visit San Francisco and started what I consider one of the first ever public Twitter frenzies: once a stencil went up, word got out, and the people amassed. I was in the middle of this fun frenzy, and made extra efforts to get up on roof tops for photos. A mutual friend, who had access to a bus, started giving tours of the Banksy pieces in the City. He contacted me after several people told him that I was the guy with the Stencil Archive site. On one of his last bus tours (the Banksy pieces eventually got destroyed; only two of about thirteen exist now), I was approached by a few people from a start up called Vayable. "Have you ever thought of giving a…

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