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Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:32:55 -0700
Call for Entries: Stencil Art Show Deadline: August 7, 2003
StencilArchive.org and The Budget Gallery present Stencils: the Art of Negative Spaces
WHERE: The Crucible Steel Gallery, CELLspace, San Francisco, CA WHEN: Opening Event: Aug. 21, 2003 Closing Event: Sept. 4, 2003 with the last day of show on Sept. 6
Online community Web site StencilArchive.org, (http://stencilarchive.org) and public art reclaimer The Budget Gallery (http://budgetgallery.org) invite you to participate in the ongoing revitalization of a timeless art form. Dating back to earliest cave paintings, stenciling has been used as an easy, repetitive method for human expression. A cousin of printmaking, stencil art requires an idea and minimal tools to make it happen over and over again. A stencil’s potential to be placed anywhere opens up a dialog within its found habitat, and creates conversations with whatever else is around it.
For over one year, StencilArchive.org has helped connect the international stencil community. Its mission is to be a hub for stencils while making people more aware of the amazing free art that they walk through in their daily routines. With other sites and projects beginning to flourish on the internet, StencilArchive.org, and the Budget Gallery, are ready to lay your art down on the white walls of the Crucible Steel Gallery in San Francisco, CA, USA. (http://www.cellspace.org/gallery/)
The show’s mission wishes to express the vitality, creativity, and diversity of the international stencil community and the language that its art creates. The gallery will present stencil art via several themes: international, national, and local, with a DIY nontoxic, put up area (a blank wall) for anybody who wants to paint their stencil during the show’s run. There will also be a stencil-crafting table at the show’s opening and a panel/Q&A discussing stencil topics at it’s closing event.
We are now taking submissions of any kind of stencil art. You can paint them on any surface, or even send an actual stencil (the stencil cut-out gets little visibility and is the most mysterious part of the art form). Any artist who submits a piece will be represented on one of the themed walls based on his/her location. If you submit more than one piece, you have the potential of getting up again if room permits.
StencilArchive.org believes that as long as it’s a stencil, or a stencil cut-out, it’s a piece of art worth sharing. All levels of experience are welcome and encouraged to submit, and all forms (images, text-only, outdoor or indoor) are welcome. Please do not send any photos of stencils or other types of art work unless there’s an actual stencil on it.
Mail all submissions to: Stencil Submission c/o Russell H. 3705 25th St., #4 San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Deadline for Submissions: Must be received no later than August 7, 2003 (late submissions may not go up)
-the title of the piece(s) -the name of the artist(s) (if you use a street “handle”, and want to use it instead, your personal name will not be released to the public) -the location of the artist(s) -artist contact information (em, snail add, and phone #) -permission to sell as benefit (see below for more info) -suggested price of the piece(s)
If you want your artwork returned to you, please include a self addressed, stamped envelop (SASE) with the correct amount of postage on it. SASE must also be the same size as the original package. Once the show goes down, your stencils will be mailed back to you in your SASE envelope.
Due to the nature of the show, the curators cannot be responsible for any alteration or damage to your original art. The Crucible Steel Gallery is an unsupervised, free, public gallery, so the curators cannot be responsible for any theft of artwork either. We’ll try our best to take care or your stuff if you want it back.
All artists in the show will have their name in all the promotional materials. A special page will be set up on StencilArchive.org documenting the show, the pieces displayed, and the artists that made them.
StencilArchive.org and The Budget Gallery are grassroots organizations that believe in enhancing our public spaces with amazing art.
This being said, if you are interested in giving permission to sell your piece(s), please do so. All funds raised will go directly to covering costs of renting the gallery, producing the opening with anything extra supporting both of our projects. Prices will be reasonable so that anyone can walk away with amazing stencil art.
If you do not wish to donate your piece, and do not want it returned, your artwork will become part of the physical, and eventually digitally documented, StencilArchive files.
Russell H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stencilarchive.org
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