Artist Interview

The Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) has started to do a series of interviews that feature Twin Cities artists in their studios. One of our first interviews is with stencil artist extrodinaire Broken Crow. Thought you be interested in checking it out. (Link to WACTAC)

Due to a language barrier (Hao speaks broken English and I don't
speak any French), StencilArchive.org wrote out a list of questions
that a friend of Hao's interpreted into French. His friend then
interpreted Hao's answers into English. I have made the best possible
effort to clean up the English, but some things would be best left to

When Peat Wollaeger sent in his first submission to StencilArchive, I
was instantly impressed with his mastery of creating stencils. His
colors made the images jump off of the page. His cutting style had its
own unique characteristics, and his love for the artform was easily
apparant. When I mentioned having an online chat, he got really excited

One of the earliest and most regular contributors to StencilArchive's
photo cache just happens to be the farthest away. ECCE (Latin for
behold and pronounced A-che) lives in Australia, where stencil art is
apparantly beginning to really take off. After doing some research
online, and figuring out that we're 17 hours apart, we then coordinated

"I cut stencils as a way of documenting life; as a proof of my own
existence and how I deal with that existence." - from Stencil Graffiti
by Tristan Manco

SA: How did you get into stencil art?