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I’ll be painting a wall with the crew. The Three Hearts Club as part of this years annual International “Meeting Of Styles” graffiti art exposition.

Friday, Sept. 18th
M.O.S. Artist Meet n Greet
Studio 54B
2128 S. Halsted
7pm-12am

Saturday, Sept. 19th
The Wall of Style (30th & Kedzie Ave.)
12am- 7pm

ESP Gallery Show at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W. North Ave.)
7pm-12am

Rumble Arts Center is proud to announce it will be hosting Eastern, Sentral, & Pacific, a tri-costal graffiti art showcase that is in its fourth year of production. This art exhibit features over 30 of the most renowned graffiti artists from, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Japan, and Puerto Rico. The gallery event coincides with the world wide graffiti mural tour Meeting of Styles, which originated in Germany ten years ago and makes its way around the globe every year. This year we plan to include local MC’s and DJ’s from New York and Chicago as part of the opening festivities. This event is a family oriented, multi-generational, cultural event that has attracted over 800 people every year, and we hope to reach 1,000 this year.

Guest Star Performances by: Akbarm Ang13, Steady Serve, Knowmadz
DJs: Fredones, KA, Noble, Marloca, Editcuts

Unusual Suspects, is an art exhibition that has roots in power and originality. It showcases 15 artists, whose work has evolved out of a certain amount of artistic isolation from the traditional art world. This path has allowed each of them to develop unique bodies of work with various non-traditional styles and techniques.

Laboring throughout a lifetime of heart and soul, all are truly dedicated in achieving a permanent mark with their art on the world. Artist line up includes, Casper, Ish, Risk, Uneek, Zore, Hyde, Tsel, Flash, Kingdom, Pilot, Rooster, Thor, Poem, Traz, Flex.

2612 Space is an alternative artist-run space located at 2612 W. Nelson Avenue in Chicago’s “Northwest Nowhere” Industrial-triangle, a corridor bordered by Belmont Avenue, Elston Avenue, and Rockwell Street along the Chicago River North Branch.

After Party at Lava Lounge – 1270 N. Milwaukee Ave. till 2am
www.lavachicago.com

Upset will be holding a silent art benefit Saturday, May 2nd in Chicago. All money raised will go to the families of Andrew Cazares, Fausto Manzera, and Nazon Simmons. Thank you to Stef for all your help and to Rumble Arts Center for letting us use their space.

A huge list of artists involved will be announced soon! Artwork will go for cheap and is for a great cause. Don’t sleep!

Street Unity
Silent Art Auction
Saturday, May 2nd 8-11 pm
Rumble Arts Center
3413 W. North Avenue, Chicago

Martha Cooper’s 25th Anniversary Edition of Subway Art and Going Postal Book Signing
First Ever Chicago Sticker Exchange – All Stickers $5
and Making Deals Zine Premiere
Time: Friday, May 1st 6-10 PM, Chicago

For the first time in her thirty year career, famed street photojournalist Martha Cooper will be coming to Chicago to release the highly anticipated 25th anniversary edition of Subway Art published by Chronicle Books. The new edition of Subway Art features new photos and text and comes in a beautiful large-scale format. Going Postal, Cooper’s new book about the burgeoning postal sticker art scene in New York will also be available. Both books will soon become street art and graffiti staples. MR. THOR will be creating an art installation for the space.

To coincide with the Going Postal book release, Upset, a collective of artists from Chicago and New York, presents a handmade sticker art sale featuring work from many of the artists in Cooper’s postal sticker art book. Over 30 artists from New York and Chicago are involved in the sale. All stickers sell for only $5 and artists are also encouraged to bring their work and exchange stickers with other artists. Featured artists include Blanco, C-Damage, Faust, Overconsume, Stomach, and more.

The Making Deals zine premiere takes place at the Novem Studios store, only a few doors down from the Martha Cooper event. The New York City based zine compiles images and interviews with people creator Frank Serpico finds personally interesting including graffiti, drug dealing, 70s cinema and sports, and urban mayhem with a focus on New York and Chicago—the artist’s hometown. Making Deals Issue One is printed in a limited edition of 100 and features an interview with Chicago graffiti legend Sivel. For the premiere, Serpico, who is also co-founder of Upset, will have illustrations and paintings available for sale.

Martha Cooper Subway Art and Going Postal Book Signing
1114 N. Ashland Chicago IL.
For more information visit:
upsetmag.blogspot.com
novemstudios.com
makingdealszine.blogspot.com

Artists included:
Veggiesomething, Kevin Demski, Brooks Golden, Andy Schansberg, Scott Gruss, Czr Prz, Flip, Michael C. Hsiung, Nish, Shane Thompson, Anders Nilsen, Matthew Lew, SARO, Joey Potts, Blutt, Peat Wollaeger (stenSOUL), Nicholas Peterson, Erick De La Rosa, Paul E Delgado, artillery, Lee Larkins, Joseph Miller, Rejoice, Jake Austen, Fathøm, Alan Butella, EA1, Ryan Giese, Dorian Byrd, Shawnimal, and ME.

Sponsors:
Character Skateboards with additional support by Uprise Skate Shop and special thanks to Jennifer York and all the artist that made this happen.

Title:
reSESSION SKATE DECK Show

Venue:
Columbia College
1006 S Michigan Avenue, 1st Floor
Chicago, IL

Exhibition Dates:
March 6th through April 2nd
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday Noon-5:00 PM

Closing Reception: the evening of March 27, 6:00-9:00

Open to the public as well as Southern Graphics Council Conference goers and exhibitors.

reSESSION will be a high-profile show of artist-designed skate decks exhibited in conjunction with the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference, hosted by Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago.  Over one thousand conference-goers will examine the theme of “Global Implications” through exhibitions at almost fifty venues in and around Chicago and four days of events, discussions and presentations.

reSESSION will be held at Columbia College in the highly-visible, street-level gallery of the 1006 South Michigan Building.  reSESSION will be shown alongside work by artists from around the world, including: the International Print Center New York’s New Prints: Winter exhibition; Contemporary Prints from Australia; and an international exhibition of artists’ books.

Artists contributing to reSESSION are encouraged to utilize printmaking processes in the creation of their boards.  These boards may include silkscreen and relief printing, transfer processes, and stencil processes in addition to hand-applied marks.

Character Skateboards and the 2009 SGC Conference Exhibition Coordinator will select the participants in this invitational exhibition.  Soma Fuller described Character this way in Focus Mag: “Character Skateboards is a company built on the premise of honesty, integrity, hard work, strong boards and strong skaters.”

The Southern Graphics Council is the largest professional organization of printmakers in the universe, with members from across the USA and Canada, as well as South and Central America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia.

Anchor Graphics @ Columbia College Chicago is a not-for-profit fine art print shop that brings together, under professional guidance, a diverse community of youth, emerging and established artists, and the public to advance the fine art of printmaking by integrating education with the creation of prints.  Since 1990 Anchor Graphics has taught over 1,000 Chicago area high school students with free in-depth printmaking classes.