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February 27, 2011 By squirt

Free University of San Francisco, School of Art

The Free University of San Francisco aims to make the highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free. The only requirement for membership is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

We believe that the purpose of education is not to turn the student into a better consumer and profit-earner but to help him or her to discover the wealth of human culture upon whose shoulders she or he stands. What we share at the Free University of San Francisco is a passionate determination to see the restoration of humanity—warm, literate, democratic—to vibrant human life. And in order to achieve this aim we have taken hold of the very hub of our culture, which is education, in order to create a brand new kind of institution, one whose existence makes no sense in the current social order, one that stands in direct defiance of the privatized profit-oriented social engineering centers that pass for universities today.

We are the Free University of San Francisco and we are rebels of knowledge.

This course will offer courses, lectures and demonstrations in the field of  visual arts, those arts which seek to enlighten, inform and entertain with common sense imagination in populist mediums.

Sunday, March 6, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Chris Shaw

Sunday, March 27, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Winston Smith

Sunday, April 3, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Jon-Paul Bail and special guests

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Chris Shaw, Free University of San Francisco, Jon-Paul Bail, Ron Donovan, Winston Smith

February 25, 2011 By squirt

Steve Miller Band, live on “Austin City Limits”

Steve Miller Band

Austin City Limits

Season 37 – KLRU – The Moody Theater

Saturday, February 26, 2011

 

Edition of 100

8 colors on archival cream paper

22″ x 33″

Signed and Numbered

Poster will be made available by Austin City Limits at the live taping for Steve Miller Band on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at The Moody Theater.

Mark Pedini gave me the opportunity to make a poster for rock legend Steve Miller Band for his live appearance on the television program “Austin City Limits” on Saturday, February 26, 2011. What immediately comes to mind for Steve Miller is Stanley Mouse’s Pegasus logo, so with Stanley Mouse “the man who drew the face on rock music” inspiring me, I looked for another archetypical big rock image to chrome-up Steve Miller Band with, and landed on the scarab. The scarab rolls Ra the sun across the sky each day and transforms bodies and souls, meanwhile, Steve Miller rises every day like the sun from a 1,000,000 radios. I colored the Ra symbol with psychedelic EyeFry blue and magenta, and overprinted with two separate coats of very translucent interference blue which catches the light ever so delicately and refracts in prismatic rainbow sparks, ever so gently slanted toward blue. I’ve included two detail photos below.

 

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Austin City Limits, Stanley Mouse, Steve Miller Band

February 19, 2011 By squirt

Sperry Participates in “Free University” New York Times

New York Times • February 19, 2011 • by Reyhan Harmanci

Filed Under: Press & Reviews Tagged With: Alan Kaufman, Chuck Sperry, Diane Di Prima, Free University, Matt Gonzalez, New York Times

February 19, 2011 By squirt

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam

Band of Horses will play the Paradiso in Amsterdam on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Since this poster is Ideal Posters Series Number 69, I went with the Spirit of 1969, a year of change and generational revolt – like 2011. The figure in the poster stands transfixed in ecstasy and is washed in the light thrown on her in amoebic forms of liquid light. She stands mesmerized in the interval between microcosm and macrocosm. I made a regular edition of 125 on cream paper and three variant editions listed below.

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Edition of 125

20 x 32

6 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Speckled Egg Edition of 19

20 x 32

6 colors on Speckled Egg Paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Marbled Parchment Edition of 10

20 x 32

6 colors on Marbled Parchment Paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Silk and Metal Flecked Edition of 10

20 x 32

6 colors on Marbled Parchment Paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!


Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Amsterdam, Band of Horses, Paradiso

February 19, 2011 By squirt

Stockholm Syndrome at The Independent, SF

Stockholm Syndrome plays two nights at The Independent, San Francisco on February 18 and 19, 2011. Dropped the posters off with the band during soundcheck yesterday, and rapped out with neighborhood genius and guitar legend Eric McFadden and the legendary Dave Schools of Widespread Panic fame. A couple people asked me if this image is Patty Hearst – nope – it’s Bratty Hearst – Patty’s sexier little sister. Can’t wait to see Stockholm Syndrome tonight!

(Above is a digital image / actual photo of the silver edition below)

Stockholm Syndrome at The Independent, SF

Silver Edition

16.5 x 35

Edition of 150

4 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Stockholm Syndrome at The Independent, SF

Gold Edition

16.5 x 35

Edition of 25

4 colors on coated white paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Independent, Stockholm Syndrome

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