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Recap: SCGI Printmaking Conference

We’re super grateful to Taro Takizawa for covering the SGC International conference for us. Taro has a BFA in Printmaking from Central Michigan University, and his prints are fantastic. He made the trek down to St. Louis for this conference, which is the largest annual gathering for printmakers and is held in a different city each year. Taro showed his work at Open Portfolio and was featured on Printeresting.

One of the keynote speakers at SCGI was Swoon. While she was in town, she worked with the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts to install a mural (watch video)…as well as a few other “unofficial” pieces. Behind the cut, Taro breaks down his SCGI experience in great detail, including his take on hearing Swoon speak, pictures from Open Portfolio, meeting Tugboat Printshop and visiting Firecracker Press.

DEAR ARTISTS: If you see your prints pictured in Taro’s Open Portfolio recap, please comment and credit yourself!

Read Taro Takizawa’s SCGI 2011 Recap…

Juxtapoz x Power House Project

Last week we stopped by the Juxtapoz x Power House Projects homes in Detroit featuring the work of Swoon, Saelee Oh, Retna, Monica Canilao, Richard Colman, and Rene Almanza. While we were not able to stay for long we were able to check out the two featuring the art of Swoon and Saelee Oh. Below are some photos of these two houses that we visited.

You can view more photos of these houses as well as the other two houses over at Street Culture Mash. If you would like to visit these homes in person, and you absolutely should, they are located at 13167, 13181, 13178, and 13184 Moran St in Hamtramck, Michigan.

Swoon in Detroit

Last week Swoon visited Detroit as part of the Juxtapoz Magazine x Powerhouse Projects to decorate a house within the city. Photographer Kevin Hayes was there to cover the project.

Photos courtesy Juxtapoz and many more photos can be found here.

Swoon in Detroit

Spotted in Midtown. This piece is from Swoon’s visit to Detroit in 2007, when she was in town for the Allied Media Conference.

Starred #32

I haven’t done one of these in so long! I had a lot of good stuff saved.

Martine Johanna (via Signalnoise)

One of my favorite Swoon pieces in Street Art New York (right page). I want this book.
(Pics and awesome background quilt by My Love For You is a Stampede of Horses)

Birdcycle by Methane Studios (via Grain Edit)

Poster by Tone Ink (via OMG Posters)

Concrete Sunrise in the Dequindre Cut (via streetculturemash)

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