Welcome to the new/updated site! Since 2002, your old-school website for all things stencils. Please consider donating what you can to support the much-needed upgrade. Photo, video, links, and exhibit info submissions always welcome. Enjoy and stay curious.
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Thanks to: Chris Benfield, Deborah, @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @GraffitiRadical, u/IogicaI, u/NastyNava
Spinning: Bowie
Jef Aerosol (just one)
Chuck Sperry cuts a stencil in France
Germany (just one)
Hamburg (just one)
Italy (just one)
Spain (just one)
In the UK
Thanks to: Jeremy Novy, @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @GraffitiRadical, u/IogicaI, u/NastyNava
Spinning: AC/DC; Jerry Garcia Band; Led Zeppelin; Bowie
>NEW< Hijack in NYC
Ancient hand stencils in Primal
A 2017 Burningman cut out
One in Sacramento
A few in Denver
One in Florida
Faile (just one)
A massive cut out from Logan Hicks
Voxx (just one)
Bogata (just one)
Toxicomano (just one)
Also: https://www.instagram.com/erre.erre/
I like to cut. Stenciling is a technique that allows me to reproduce my images as many times as I want in different sizes and very quickly. It is also a very simple technique that is available to anyone, which makes it a technique of action, of wanting to do, of carrying out an idea.
I like to do something appropriate to the space and for that it is necessary to take measures and generate a spreadsheet that adapts to the place, that takes time. In the process of the cuts I found a kind of therapy, of meditation, like a mantra - something repetitive that at the same time is new - that fascinated me and that I cannot stop doing.
Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, u/Gudariak, u/w0f0z, u/shares_inDeleware, u/Pzy2209
Spinning: Duke and Coleman,
Australia (just one)
Martha Cooper snaps one in Kinshasa
Colombia (just one)
Ireland (just one)
Nebraska (just one)
misstencil (just one)
Around the Castro
Turkey (North Kurdistan)
Once again, many thanks to Srđan Tunić for sending these submissions our way.
Spinning: Louis Armstrong, The Jazz Messengers with Monk, Michael Franti and Spearhead
>NEW< Bosnia and Herzegovina
>NEW< Montenegro
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)
>NEW< Vudemn in Belgrade
Also: https://www.instagram.com/hijackart/
The son of ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ star Mr. Brainwash, Hijack, grew up in a world surrounded and inspired by renowned street artists such as Invader, Banksy, and Shepard Fairey. He was able to observe first hand the creative processes of some of the world’s most prolific and successful street artists. He learned how to set up his own studio, how to approach a large-scale mural, and even how to stealthily--albeit illegally--put up stencil art.
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)
Netherlands (just one)
Spain (just one)
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: Omega Man in Berkeley
Eclair (just one)
Ongo in the Richmond Dist., SF
