Please provide a brief description of your work. Funky with a kick! Does being a female artist or identifying as a female artist influence your work and if so how? In the beginning it took much more work to get credit, but when the respect is gained it never goes away. What’s the best thing about being a female artist in the sticker world? That you can stay incognito forever and you can use any colour you please. Is there anything else you’d like to share? Keep on slappin! Special thanks to Oliver Baudach, Hatch Kingdom, Berlin, Germany, for his…
Please provide a brief description of your work. The subject of the sticker is a smiling used sanitary tampon, digitally drawn with quick and rough brushstrokes and colored in a simple and flat manner. Does being a female artist, or identifying as a female artist, influence your work, and if so, how? Yes, it does. Some of my works focus on gender related topics, like an editorial design for an brochure with tips and action steps against gender-mainstreaming or an explanatory card game about menstruation. All of those projects include my personal experience and are based on my perception of…
Please provide a brief description of your work. I create colorful stickers based on my beloved cats, my glitch art, and my street-art tag, WHAT. The goal is to create connection and community in public spaces, where signage is typically geared towards commercial enterprises (advertisements, store signs, logos on clothing and cars). Putting out aesthetically appealing, self-expressive works amidst the hubbub lets genuine artists stake a claim out in the world, and fosters inquiry and attention to details that are all around us. I love to put my work amongst other sticker art, creating a collective destination that honors the…
The exhibition SHE SLAPS: Street Art Stickers by Women Artists from Around the World closes at St. Lawrence University this week. Here is the co-curator’s statement I wrote about the project: SHE SLAPS features 536 street art stickers by 85 contemporary women artists from 20 countries around the world. Drawn from the private collection of Oliver Baudach, founder and director of Hatch Kingdom Sticker Museum in Berlin, Germany, the exhibition includes stickers individually drawn, painted, and/or printed by the artists, as well as silkscreen, offset, and digital designs that were printed in larger runs through commercial services. In the spring…
Students in my Street Art Graphics course at SLU made one-of-a-kind stickers to submit to the SLAPS 2 exhibition at Con Artist in NYC that just opened a few days ago. Here are some examples. Margaret Chandler is a Global Studies major who recently spent a semester in Kathmandu working with a group of street artists. Sarah Churbuck, a.k.a. “Miss Phiddler,” is from Florida and has been creating different images related to the ocean, especially mermaids. Rebecca Clayman is the queen of D-I-Y, often spending hours making intricate one-of-a-kind handmade envelopes on found papers and boards. This sticker is similar.…
TRAVELING EXHIBITION – NOW AVAILABLE FOR 2025-2028 110+ Years of Adhesive Art & Culture Dial it up to eleven with the expanded blockbuster edition! In the last forty years, street art has exploded dramatically from the spray-painted graffiti that vandalized subway stations, back alleys, and train yards during the 1970s and ’80s. Today, new forms of visual communication are created in public spaces, often attracting viewers in more interactive and contemplative ways. Street art stickers, or simply “stickers,” have burst forth as a vehicle for self-expression and as an effective way to engage passersby. Stickers may be used to “tag”…
Since 2010, I have had the good fortune to collaborate with Oliver Baudach on four traveling sticker exhibitions. Oli is the founder and director of Hatch Kingdom Sticker Museum in Berlin, Germany, the world’s first and only of its kind. Our international collections complement each other well in that his collection of over 30,000 stickers focuses on urban art/artists and street and skateboard culture, while my collection of over 18,000 stickers focuses on political stickers. Digital image files of our scanned stickers from two exhibitions are also sorted by themes, countries, and dates. Scroll down to see examples from Paper…
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Folks from the Slap Me Baby sticker collective in Switzerland contacted me in the spring of 2020 to submit an essay on I.W.W. “stickerettes” and to respond to some interview questions for their next zine. They also sent me some great artists’ and political stickers, which are in the queue to be scanned and catalogued into the Street Art Graphics digital archive. Zine #3 can be purchased on the Slap Me Baby website here. I read the interview again today and decided to publish it on Stickerkitty, too. Can you describe in short words how your interest in stickers began…
In 2017, after receiving a faculty research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service to continue cataloguing stickers for the Street Art Graphics digital archive, I spent four weeks in Berlin collecting political stickers and learning about the issues they communicated. My collaborator, Oliver Baudach, founder and director of the Hatch Kingdom Sticker Museum, also identified 954 original, unused stickers from his collection of street art stickers for me to scan while I was there, of which 322 were done by female artists. In 2019, with a second grant from the U.S. Council of Independent Colleges’ Consortium on Digital Resources…