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2011 saw a wave of public stencil art across the world. Stencils go hand in hand with protests, where a can of spray paint and a cut-out stencil can be deemed a weapon if the police want to detain someone. We just updated the Africa Archive, where Egypt has the largest collection. We can thank the massive Arab Spring uprising, begun in 2011, for a wave of protest stencils in that North African country.
When Occupy Wall Street bubbled up in 2011, another wave of protest stencils rolled over the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the United States. Generally named Occupy Together, this stencil archive attempts to pull many of these photos together in one place.
Up next for our New Wave updates: Mexico, Argentina, and stencils found in media.