Original post can be found here.
“Defiant Proclamations”
Thu., March 11, 7:00pm
Not Everything Is on the Internet
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Kevin Keating was once known far and wide as the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project; he was accused of keying SUVs in the late 1990s to protest gentrification. Most people thought he was making a complicated point in a humorously dramatic manner, but, of course, opinions varied. In a 1999 San Francisco Chronicle article detailing his arrest and the police ransacking of his home, he was portrayed as a poo-smearing criminal, but even Commander Greg Suhr of the Mission Police Station freely admitted that Keating was “well-read and cerebral.” Don’t you want to see this guy’s art collection? At “Defiant Proclamations,” Keating and other interesting, energetic activists such as muralist Mona Caron and painter Hugh D’Andrade display their political posters. “Radical Posters from the 1960s to the Present” is the show’s subtitle, and other contributors include Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde, who have deep roots in the Bay Area’s graphic-arts poster tradition. And word on the cyberstreet is that Vince Dugar has a poster made by 1960s food-freedom group the Diggers.
Tags: cellspace, Politics, radical posters
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Jennifer at Manic D Press just contacted me to let me know that the 3rd print run of Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art is out now and ready to hit your coffee tables and local (hopefully indy) book stores.
Keep an eye out on upcoming Stencil Nation appearances here and there throughout the spring and summer!
DISTRO INFO (for any interested shop/gallery owners):
- USA
- Consortium 800-283-3572
- Last Gasp 415-824-6636 contact: Jon Longhi
- Ingram 800-937-0995
- Baker+Taylor 800-775-1800
- Manic D Press 415-648-8288 contact: Jen Joseph
- CANADA
- Publishers Group Canada 1-800-747-8147
- UK + EU
- Turnaround PSL (London) 020 8829 3000
Tags: Stencil Nation
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Vince Dugar has sent me a few photos of posters and handbills that he and I will hang on the walls March 11. I went by his house last week and got to look through his assorted collections. Many great items, and many other causes and opinions missing (no People’s Park, Free Speech, or Anti-Nuke, etc. items). But he has some amazing gems, including an original SF Diggers’ “1% FREE” poster as well as a bluntly defiant handbill calling for black men to avoid the Vietnam draft. The show will be featured in the SF Weekly Events Cal in a few weeks, and things are moving along well with compiling the work from all the other artists. Enjoy the pics!
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Vince just purchased this original SF Digger 1% FREE poster. I have been told that this poster was stenciled, so I will finally get to inspect one to see! The "1%" term was a patch that Hells Angels wore to show that they were the 1% of Harley riders who weren't law-abiding citizens.
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poster artist: Earl Newman, media: silk-screen, date: c. 1964-1966
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A hand bill from the Cortland Latin Youth Organization in the Mission Dist. of SF. Probably from the 1970s.
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At the height of the Vietnam draft, many radical groups saw the conflict as a war fought by peeople of color for rich white men. This handbill bluntly attmpts to tell the young black men of the era what they're getting.
Tags: cellspace, Politics, radical posters
Posted in Creations | |
Thanks to Soft Zulah for creating a quick, fun, and compelling flyer/poster image for the upcoming poster exhibit at CELLspace.
Go HERE to read all about the show.
Tags: cellspace, Culture Jamming, Politics, radical posters
Posted in Creations, Politics | |
A prominent female journalist has died. Instead of going to the funeral, I stay outside with J. and help her bake cookies. A circus troupe pulls up and begins a show, so I get distracted with the baking and watch the performance. J. gets upset and cries. An A/V tech person checks on us and wants us to tune in to the journalist’s funeral. “It’s at 12,” he says. The circus troupe perform acrobatics on a prop that looks like a tree. I speak to a woman about to go on with the tree, but she ends up doing a great trick: standing sideways and then doing a back flip off a bench onto the ground. The troupe uses an effect that involves pepper spray, so the audience ends up taking their jackets off. I am not effected.
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Earlier, I dreamed that I was at a larger circus with a troupe performing on a suspended platform. One of the performers wanted to take me home with her. I also guessed their finale correctly, chalking it up to my carny experience.
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I also dreamed a fragment of an old photo of me walking in a funeral. I have bushy sideburns and a big hoop ring in my right earlobe. I am part of an important funeral procession.
Tags: Dreams
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