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Stencil Uploads You Know You Need Part 2
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)
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Read moreStencil Uploads You Know You Need Part 1
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
in the Mission District, SF
From 2002:…
Read moreStencil Archive at 20: Artist Weblinks Updated
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…
Read more12 June Stencil Uploads
Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, Tor Staale for Brooklyn Street Art
Spinning: Darker My Love; Linda Ronstadt; Oscar Peterson; Olivia Rodrigo
c215 (mostly in Ukraine)
Chile (just one)
Read more1980s Stencils via Community Murals Magazine
Lincoln Cushing is worth following on social media, because he is always releasing historically important media into the world. Just this week Cushing released a full run of Community Murals magazine, a periodical that I had never heard of (Josh MacPhee knew about it, but the Interference…
Read moreMiss.Tic Memorial Monday
The Stencil Archive just uploaded a new batch of Miss.Tic works today. We also just dug into our paper archives to pull some interview excerpts from some now classic and quite obscure publications. Finally, we have cleaned up the Miss.Tic archive for an improved viewing experience. Once again, our deepest sympathies go out to this amazing artist's friends, family, and fans.
Miss.Tic stencil-text translations, from Overspray: Street Art Magazine (2005)
"Poetry is an extreme sport." ::: "Art - people = money, but for what price?" ::: "To create is to resist." ::: "Why meow when we can roar?"
Here are several excerpts, poorly…
Read moreStencil Archive at 20: Peat Eyez Wollaeger
Whenever I see Peat's many fresh social media posts, showing new art, videos, NFTS, merch, talks, call-ins, and family bits, I am once again reminded that he is the irrepressible example of what it takes to be a 2020s artist that can make a living off of their work. Back in 2002, Peat had this spark when we first made contact.
He appeared to be a step ahead of the crowd with memorable stencils, hilarious videos, direct inspiration from late Pop Art and "Low Brow" artists, encouraging and supportive board posts, early adoption using social sites, topped off with massive online hustle and self promotion. Getting to…
Read more22 May Stencil Pic Uploads
Thanks to: Unruh Lee, @Emily_Lykos, Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti
Spinning: Linda Ronstadt; Oscar Peterson
b-toy (just one)
c215 (just one)
tona (just one)
France (just one)
Florida (just one; pro-Ukraine)
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Read moreMay Springtime Stencil Uploads
Thanks to: Josiah, Esmeralda, @Emily_Lykos, Amanda, Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, @EnessaKaye
Spinning: Phish, MSG 2022
>NEW< Misstencil in San Francisco
Alex Vallauri (1949-87)
>NEW< Alex Vallauri on Stencil Archive
A few weeks ago, we got an email asking if the Stencil Archive featured stencil work from Brazilian artist Alex Vallauri. We didn't, so an instant online search ensued. In a brief Wikipedia entry, it is noted that Vallauri traveled to Sweden in 1975, saw graffiti, and returned to Brazil to paint walls. He then traveled to New York City in 1982 and landed in to the hot scenes of Manhattan while the city was covered in graffiti, stencils, and pop art. He flew back to Brazil and never stopped…
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