Category: “The Process is the Product”

Quote from Eric Jannson at NITLE

More on kittens….

I’m participating in a workshop today at SLU with someone named Alex Juhasz from Pitzer College, presented in part through a humanities grant from the Mellon Foundation.  I missed her talk last night, which leaves me a little confused, but basically, we’re being asked to identify something on her Web site Feminist Online Spaces and respond to it with an image, text, or video.  We don’t have very much time, however, so I’m hesitant to post anything.  Since kittens have been one of the topics we’ve discussed, I decided to share my Stickerkitty blog….

Two new “stickerettes”

I’ve acquired two new unused stickerettes for my collection and sticker exhibition.  The smaller stickerette is a real favorite.  NYU has one, too.  It measures 3 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches, and the text reads: “The capitalist’s [heart] is in his pocketbook, And he uses the [club] Over you so he can wear [diamonds].  By organizing right, we can give him a [spade] With which to earn an honest living.” The second stickerette measures 6 x 6 inches and is the largest and rarest I’ve ever come across.  It was issued by the S.F. (San Francisco) Trades Union Promotional League…

Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference (2013)

My paper proposal was accepted for the upcoming Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference to be held in Dundee, Scotland, August 28 through September 1, 2013.  The title of the conference is Borders & Crossings: the artist as explorer.  Here is my abstract below.  This presentation will include the research I’ve done in the last six months on early examples of street art stickers. Street Art Stickers: Silent Agitators, Paper Bullets, and Night Raiders Publicly placed stickers with printed images and/or text have been used for decades as a form of political protest or to advocate political agendas.  In the early…

Chris Christie – manga style

The Japanese characters translate to “Republican Party,” according to a colleague of mine at work.  Now, what to make of a sticker representing NJ Governor Chris Christie drawn in manga style?  Post-Hurricane Sandy superhero running for office?  That’s my best guess.

New (old) stickers for archive

Today I found ten German political stickers dating from 2004 that I hadn’t yet scanned and catalogued.  The stickers were included in The Gallery Has a Posse: Contemporary Sticker Art, an exhibition at SLU in 2006 that featured stickers primarily from the United States.  I had forgotten about these other ones, however.  I know I sound like a broken record, but finding these older stickers only confirms the importance of creating a sticker archive. I’ve also decided to abandon A Sticker A Day.  It’s too casual.  I’d rather show stickers less often in Stickerkitty, but when I do with more…

More on I.W.W. “stickerettes”

I’ve had the luxury of spending several hours during the last few days doing research on the I.W.W. stickerettes that I posted about previously on June 3, 2012 and July 28, 2012.  I’ve decided that I need to include some historical background information about stickerettes in my sticker book, which I am tentatively calling Takin’ it to the Streets and Stickin’ it to the Man: Contemporary Sticker Art as Cultural Expression and Political Protest.  It’s a terribly long title.  The other title I’ve been thinking of lately, however, is simply Paper Bullets.  Short and sweet! The commercial artist Ralph Chaplin…