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Why are we starting this European country update with the letter "H" you ask? While looking over what was left to revise over on that continent, it began there. That simple. We will give out short lists of links to countries over there, or on the edge of there, in the coming days. For now, we begin with...

• HR Croatia
• HU Hungary (one of the first ever Stencil Archive pics was snapped here in 1995)
• IE Ireland (updated a while ago)
• IS Iceland
• IT Italy (also updated earlier this year)
• KV Kosovo

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Thanks to: Amanda, BeneRegoef, Louniki

Argentina
Chile
cartoonneros
Toxicómano Callejero

Austria
Switzerland
France
Italy
Poland
Stefan Winterle

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Great timing for completing our USA A-Z updated archive posts: Stencil Archive visited Seattle, WA last weekend and managed to catch an array of styles and placement, some ads, and some utilitarian. KEXP studio had Jonathan Fischer stencils all over their space. 

While going back through and updating the archives, the 2008 Seattle visit during the Stencil Nation book tour included a fun collab wall project. Here is our tour mate Chris Carlsson, who was also presenting a book, cutting out a stencil for the wall.

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Here are the other updated archives:

• Virginia
• Vermont (one new one, from 2004)
• Washington, DC
• Borf's archive got updated after moving an image in there from DC.
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

OK, on to updating more archives soon...

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Woah. Serious rain and flooding here in HQ San Francisco. Remember to hold your loved ones close, watch those pools of water with wary eyes, and keep your local drains clear of debris. We are continuing our USA A-Zed links for all the updated Stencil Archives. This round also includes our USA Random folder, where stencil images with no state given go to live. We do not accept images without location information, but sometimes....

• PA: Pennsylvania 
• PR: Puerto Rico
• Random USA
• RI: Rhode Island
• SC: South Carolina (updated in Aug/Sep)
• TN: Tennessee (updated in April)
• TX: Texas
• UT: Utah

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Here we go again with another round of our maddest updates, in somewhat alphabetical order by postal initials.

• NJ: New Jersey
• NM: New Mexico
• NV: Nevada (and Black Rock City)
• NY/NYC: New York, New York
• OH: birthplace of DEVO
• OK: Oklahoma
• OR: Oregon

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All the USA archives are updated (artists archives coming soon)! We'll spend most of the week posting direct links for easy access. Had a totally fun time looking through all these photos. Portland, ME and NH visits happened while on an activist gig. Minnesota snaps went down while in the state doing another activist gig. Snapped some Baltimore, MD and Detroit, MI pics while on the Stencil Nation tour. Was just in St. Louis, MO after the recent solar eclipse. Memories!

Spinning: KGLW Live at the Fabulous Fox, ATL

MD: Maryland
ME: Maine
MI: Michigan
MN: Minnesota
MO: Missouri
NC: North Carolina
NE: Nebraska
NH: New Hampshire

Thanks to: Brooklyn Street Art

Spinning: Queen, Beatles, KGLW

Just updated the archives for Maine and Maryland. New images for:

• East Bay
• fnnch
• more LOST in media
• Lapiz
• NYC
• SF: The Mission
• SF: Haight St.
• Snik
• United Kingdom
• Yon

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Here we go with the latest Stencil Archive updates. Slowed down a bit, but still on our minds as we continue to process the incoming submissions. What do we have for you this Fall-Back Friday? Why, just some more A-Z USA updates. There's politics in this pile, but nothing focused on presidents :) 

• Indiana (most of this from the Stencil Nation tour visit)
• Iowa (a chunk of this from a fun, Ben Cohen activist gig visit)
• Kansas
• Louisiana (already updated)
• Massachusetts (another Stencil Nation tour visit cache in this one)

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Stencil Archive is always looking for stories and photographs to fill in the many gaps of lost/forgotten/unnoticed history relating to stencils in the streets. Brooklyn Street Art just represented, posting a great article by Ted Riederer discussing Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt's one particular environmental stencil project that has mostly been "lost" in the pre-digital cobwebs of time. BSA's post has many more photos, so we recommend that you all go there to check them out. And we here at Stencil Archive always have deep respect for Jaime Rojo's work over there in NYC. BSA is holding it down outside of social media, and for that, we tip the hat.

Graffiti as Concept: Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt’s Impact on 1960s New York’s Streets
October 15, 2024 Artists

Special guest Ted Riederer shares the story of a New York artist who, as a gay street youth, made his mark with bold, conceptual graffiti. Blending street culture with high-concept art, his early works challenged boundaries, reshaped graffiti history, and paved the way for a pioneering career in immersive installations and social activism.

by Ted Riederer

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, whose work is collected by prestigious institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, and the Brooklyn Museum, and who was honored by President Barack Obama, began his career as a conceptual graffiti/street artist in the late 1960s. Known for his numinous sculptures and installations crafted from everyday materials like staples, cellophane, paper bags, and Scotch tape, Tommy’s journey started with a bold move. At just 20 years old, in 1968, he launched a spray paint stencil campaign on 4th Street in the East Village—a calculated street art action that reshaped and rewrites the many narratives of graffiti history.