MASS MOCA SHOW> SPRING 2004

“ And Graffiti commanded man to paint all walls with bright and lively colors, do not fall prey to the evil of the buff, of dripping brown paint and sandblasted emptiness” Krylon 2:16-17
“ Wherefore, as by one buff sin entered the world, and so buffing passedamong all walls.” Painter’s Touch 5:12
Call for Participation: We Want Your Street Art
Deadline: April 15, 2004
The God Bless Graffiti Coalition (GBGC), a national graffiti advocacy group (see below description), is looking for artists around the world who use posters, stencils, stickers, sign installations, and anything else that sticks to walls to send us their work for an exhibition project entitled “On the 8th Day..." wall.

This project is part of a larger political art exhibition opening this coming May 2004 at Mass MOCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), one of the leading museums for contemporary art in North America.

The show, called “The Interventionists,” is a collection of work by artists who “intervene” in public space. Mass MOCA (www.massmoca.org) is no hipster gallery, it sees over 110,000 people come through its doors in the course of a year! “The Interventionists” will be on display for 10 months. The “On the 8th Day..." project will be installed on a 69’ x 20’ wall which is located in the opening room for the entire “The Interventionists” exhibition.

This is an open call and we are asking for MULTIPLE copies of poster, stencil, sticker and sign work (as well as actual cut stencils) of any size (we would love to receive large works). The GBGC will be using all this material to construct and compose a giant wall of street art, with the work pasted, stuck and painted directly on the wall. NOTE: Because we will be piling the work of hundreds of artists onto the wall, some work will only be partially visible on the final product (just like in the street). The work doesn't have content limitations, political and non-political street art are equally welcome.

Include the name you use for your art in with your work. If you are sending work for multiple people or your crew, tell us what is what. If you want us to confirm that we receive your work, or if you want to hear how the show goes, then include contact info in your package, either an email or a physical address. If you have any questions please let us know at graffiti<AT>counterproductiveindustries.com and we will try to help. We look forward to hearing from you!
In Graffiti We Trust,
The God Bless Graffiti Coalition
www.counterproductiveindustries.com/gbgc
December 2003

Mailing Information:
Send all work up to 24" x 36" in size to: Josh/GBGC PO Box 476971
Chicago,IL 60647

If possible, please send extra stickers, flyers and small posters, we will be dispensing them out of newspaper boxes in the museum. No work will be wasted, all will be distributed or put up. If anything is leftover, we will put it up on the street!

Send all work larger than 24" x 36" to:
MASS MoCA (Attn: Nato Thompson),1040 MASS MoCA way, North Adams, MA 01247

Absolute Deadline: April 15, 2004

A list of confirmed participants:
Abe Lincoln Jr. (NYC), Aerosolarts (La Jolla, CA), ANT (Vienna, Austria), APE7 (Sydney), Jason Archer & Paul Beck (Austin, TX), Arrrgh! (Hannover, Germany), Bask (Detroit), Brandon Bauer (Milwaukee), BOB215 (NJ), Bongout (France), Buffmonster (LA), Alex Costa (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Dr. Blade (Atlanta), Dub Syndicate (Houston), Shepard Fairey (LA), Jerome G (Paris), Give Em Hell (NJ), Lord Hao (Paris), HECZ (Chicago), Height Lab (LA), Hubert One (Brooklyn), INK 76 (NYC), Jet-Pac (York, UK), JS04 (Chicago), Kempt (Boston), Klutch (Portland, OR), Nicolas Lampert (Milwaukee), Charlene Lau (Toronto), MAD One (Tempe, AZ), Magic Propaganda Mill (NYC), MAKE (LA), Markron103 (Phillipines), Minigraff (Sydney, Australia), Claude Moller (SF), Roger Peet (Tucson, AZ), POCH (France), Leon Rainbow (NJ), RB827 (Brooklyn), REVISE CMW (Chicago), Erik Ruin (Detroit), Schhh (Barcelona), Scout (Albany, NY), Sevenist (Chicago), Shiro (LA), Skumskullz (Germany), Olever Stak (Paris), Sunkist (Netherlands), Super-Mega (Japan), Swoon (Brooklyn), Beth Tub (IL), TXMX (Hamburg), Nick Walker (UK), W/REMOTE (Minneapolis)

The God Bless Graffiti Coalition was founded in 2000 in Chicago in order to combat growing national and international anti-graffiti trends. We first published our Give Graffiti the Thumbs Up brochure to help educatethe public about the truth of graffiti. This brochure has been distributed on the streets via newspaper boxes in Chicago, Columbus OH, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It has also been distributed in the magazine Faesthetic#3 and by hand via an underground network of street artists. The success of our initial brochure has led us to expand our activities, including subway ads and our latest endeavor, graffiti bible tracts. The "On the 8th Day..." wall will be our first museum installation and just another attempt tospread the gospel of graffiti to wider and wider audiences.

For a word document of this call, Click here

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