Nicolas Lampert, Lecturer in the PSOA is hosting Chicago artist, Josh Macphee to speak in his seminar class. Nicolas has kindly opened this up to all of us. You don't want to miss this chance to hear this fantastic artist speak about guerilla work in general, his own work as an artist, and his involvement with a global community of stencil artists.
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Thursday, April 21st. 7:00pm - 9:30pm
MIT 191
everyone welcome to attend
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Josh MacPhee is a Chicago based artist and author of "Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil," published last year on Soft Skull Press. The book is a extensive look at the gloabl history of the street stencil.
Outside of working on book projects, MacPhee is an artist/activist who curates the "Celebrate People's History Poster Series", runs a distribution system for political art (www.justseeds.org), and has recently organized the group printmaking show "Paper Politics" that opens April 1st in Seattle, featuring 175
artists. He has also worked with many radical art collectives, including Counter Productive Industries (www.counterproductiveindustries.com) and the God Bless Graffiti Coalition (which was part of the Interventionist show at the MASS MoCA).
On Thursday, April 21st Josh will present a visual study and history of the street stencil, starting from its origins in ancient history to the Spanish Civil War to anti-colonial revolts in the 1970's to its present forms.
He will also talk about his own art and recent shows that he has curated followed by a question and answer session.
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