Swooning for Art
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Swooning for Art
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alright, so here is the deal. Once in a while an artist catches my eye, and i am speachless. For the past few years one of those artists that i am starstruck for is Swoon, the NY based printmaker and stencil artist. For those of you that don't know her work, she wheatpastes the actual stencils onto buildings. Here are a few pics of her work






well, about a week ago my good friends over at Wooster Collective hit me up on behalf of Swoon asking if i would be willing to participate in the Miss Rockaway Armada Benefit happening July 13th. I said yes, and then was followed with an email from Swoon herself. I send in two pieces for the benefit auction that is happening, so if any of you are interested in picking up some of my work, or work of some other phenomenal artists like Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Faile, D*Face, Logan Hicks, Chris Stain, buz blurr, Pure Evil, Jamie Hewlett, Dolk, Eine, The Barnstormers, Armsrock, Dennis Mcnett, Mark Jenkins, Chuck Webster, Nick Walker Modern Toss, Zeus, and Leon Reid (of Darius and Downey) then get your butt over to the auction.

Here are the details of the auction:


SEND OUR HOPES DOWN THE RIVER
The Miss Rockaway Armada Art Auction

The Miss Rockaway Armada will host a benefit silent art auction in New York City called Send Our Hopes Down the River on the evening of July 13th, 2006 at 7pm at the Holasek-Weir Projects. The group is calling on artists and art enthusiasts for their support to send this scrap-raft flotilla down the Mississippi River in July and August. Funds are needed for motors, fuel, nautical equipment and transportation.

The silent auction will feature work from dozens of artists, including: Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Faile, D*Face, Logan Hicks, Chris Stain, buz blurr, Pure Evil, Jamie Hewlett, Dolk, Eine, The Barnstormers, Armsrock, Dennis Mcnett, Mark Jenkins, Chuck Webster, Nick Walker Modern Toss, Zeus, and Leon Reid (of Darius and Downey).

The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and is now being built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco and Seattle. The Armada enjoys support from the Holasek-Weir Projects, the Wooster Collective and the Barnstormers art collective, who will donate a larger-than-life sound system sculpture that will float down the river. Send Our Hopes Down the River is presented in collaboration with Emergency Arts and Conjunction Arts, two organizations dedicated to promoting art with a social conscience.

The Miss Rockaway Armada includes members of the Toyshop Collective, Visual Resistance, The Amateurs, The Floating Neutrinos, The Infernal Noise Brigade, The Madagascar Institute and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. This July they will converge in Minneapolis to construct a flotilla of rafts that will journey down the Mississippi River. The group is creating a mobile cultural center that embodies their search for creative and sustainable ways of living.

www.missrockaway.org

For information on this event and The Miss Rockaway Armada, contact A’yen Tran at (646) 232-4123, ayen@missrockaway.org. The Holasek-Weir Projects is located at 547 W. 21st near 11th Ave. in Chelsea.