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Jessica Tully presents Syndicate for BAN5

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Jessica Tully with Kim Munson, Wendy Crittenden, Tom Griscom and the Labor Archives and Research Center Selected for BAY AREA NOW 5. Save the date: Saturday, July 19th, 2008.

BAY AREA NOW 5 OPENING, homies!

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street in San Francisco

Project:

Syndicate: A Walking-tour of site-specific ground stencils at San Francisco's Union Performance Houses
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10,000th Photo with New Uploads

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Crack out the wine! Throw the confetti. Stencil Archive just saw it's 10,000th photo get uploaded tonight.

Here is the official photo that hit the milestone amount, a Zapata poster I saw on the May Day march here in San Francisco (location: Mission and 9th St.; artist: BTS)

Here are all the other great uploads that went on the site today:

Here are the artists submissions, small and large

And the current photos from San Francisco

A toast of respect to all the artists, friends, and photographers who have kept the submssions coming since 2002. Really appreciate it and hope to see dozens more new stencil photos in the coming years!

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Adam5100 and Michael Genovese at White Walls, SF, CA

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July will mark the opening of a new show at White Walls featuring the artwork of Adam 5100 and Michael Genovese. Both these artists have their own unique way of creating pieces that are not only aesthetically pleasing at first glance, but when a closer look is taken, each layer reveals much more that what is on the surface.
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KiM's Weekend of Fun

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The next upcoming few days should be full of fun and heat in the Seattle area,

Thursday is the 'all girl show' at the Twilight Artist Collective in West Seattle the Opening party is 6-9pm Come buy some art!

http://www.twilightart.net/

4306 SW Alaska St. Seattle, WA 98116 p 206.933.2444
Tuesday – Friday 11AM to 7PM / Saturday 10AM to 6PM/ Sunday 10AM to 5PM/S Closed Mondays
Located across the street from Key Bank, between Edie's Shoes and Easy Street Records
 

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tesura

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I draw, stencil, print, photograph and whatever else seems like fun to pass the time.
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Pure Evil's Live East Die Young

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PURE EVIL SOLO SHOW AT INK-D GALLERY BRIGHTON !!!

4th July-2nd August 2008

"To understand a bit about the artist PURE EVIL it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end.

Using dark humour and twisting symbolism to create new forms, the new show looks at what lurks around the corner on the secret streets of London and sheds light on the things under our noses that we never take the time to notice - as we hurtle forwards into the future...

Take a look at this extraordinary new street artists new originals and prints this July at Ink_d and prepare to be challenged, amused and delighted."

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