Chuck Sperry

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The Free University of San Francisco

Poster Edition Information:

The Free University of San Francisco 2011

23 x 35

Edition of 150

3 color poster on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD Out – Thank You!

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Matt Gonzalez contacted me and put me in touch with Alan Kaufman to make a poster for the newly established Free University of San Francisco. I include the class schedule below; you can see there’s something thought-provoking for everyone, taught by some of San Francisco’s best and brightest minds:

Here’s a little background

THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

First Teach-In

All classes are free and take place at Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street@21st, the Mission District, SF, CA

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Sat. 9:30-11:30 AM – “Criminal Procedure and Sentencing” – Instructor: MATT GONZALEZ

Sat. 11:30-1:30 – “Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Jackson Pollack” – Instructor: ALAN KAUFMAN

Sat. 2-4 PM – “Vision and the Visionary Poem” – Instructor: DIANE DI PRIMA

Sat. 2-4 PM – “San Francisco Labor History and the Great Strike of 1934” –  Instructor: BOBBY COLEMAN

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Sun. 9-11:00 AM – “Restoring San Francisco’s Urban Wildlands” – Instructor: MARTIN HOLDEN

Sun. 11:30-1:30 – “RE/Search-Modern Primitives, Angry Women&Modern Pagans” – Instructors: V. VALE and CHARLES GATEWOOD

Sun. 2-4 PM – “Abolishing Corporate Personhood to Create Authentic Democracy” – Instructor: DAVID COBB

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Mon. 6-7:45 PM – “Marx from Modernity to Postmodernity (labor, time, fantasy)” – Lecturer: SUSAN SHUN HEE PARK

Mon. 8-9:45 – “John Cage and the Spirit of Dada” – Instructor: JOHN SMALLEY

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Tues. 6-7:50 PM – “Critical Thinking (Introduction to Logic)” – Lecturers: JORDAN BOHALL and ELENA GRANIK

Tues. 8-10 PM – “Introduction to Nietzsche” – Lecturers: EVAN KARP and ANDREW PAUL NELSON

For more information about The Free University of San Francisco: http://fusf.wordpress.com/ or 415-573-5766

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Here’s a photo of the poster:

Poster Edition Information:

The Free University of San Francisco 2011

23 x 35

Edition of 150

3 color poster on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered


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Joe Strummer DVD Cover – Cast a Long Shadow

I designed the cover for this working with photographer Michael Zagaris, and I’m happy to announce that it is available on January 25, 2011. I did the poster and went to Los Angeles to see the show back in 2007. What a great show! Here’s a trailer from the DVD:

2007 Los Angeles tribute and benefit concert for The Clash’s Joe Strummer whose influence on music is immeasurable. Performances by: LOVE AND ROCKETS, ZANDER SCHLOSS & THE WILDERNESS YEARS (featuring Flea, Martyn Lenoble, Dix Denney, Jonny Polonsky, Tim Aaron, Victor Indrizzo, Emiliano Almeida, Dermot Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, Gus Seyffert, Charlie Wadhams, Craig Jackman, Stefan Lirakis and Pete Weiss), HELLRIDE (featuring Mike Watt, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins and Porno For Pyro’s Peter Distefano), DAVID J, LA PLEBE, MELODEE FERNANDEZ and hosted by CHRIS SALEWICZ. A fantastic and poignant evening for all involved. Proceeds from the sale of this DVD will benefit the Strummerville charity. Set up by family and friends in the wake of Joe Strummer’s death in 2002, Strummerville seeks to reflect Joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them.

Track Listing

  • Hellride – 1977
  • Hellride – Hate And War
  • Hellride – Career Opportunities
  • David J. – Death Is A Star
  • David J. – Sleepwalk
  • Melodee Fernandez – Spanish Bombs
  • La Plebe – Revolution Rock
  • La Plebe – Washington Bullets
  • La Plebe – Rudie Can’t Fail
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Filibustero
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – The Unknown Immortal
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Tennessee Rain
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Tropic Of No Return
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Gangsterville
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Trash City
  • Love And Rockets – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
  • Each sale gives a charitable contribution to Strummerville, the charity founded in Joe Strummer’s name.

Available here on January 25, 2011

Street Date: January 25th 2011 (US and Europe). Street Date: March 14th 2011 (UK). Proceeds from the sale of this DVD will benefit the Strummerville charity. www.strummerville.com

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A Few Words About Printing and Art

As someone who has actually been “in the trenches” printing all of my own posters, I have a right to a few words here on the subject.

To this day, 16 years and still going strong, I design and print all of my own posters and prints.

I don’t like it when artists who don’t print their own work act like they do. That’s elitist, untruthful and wrong. I think it’s part of the class system that we have grown to culturally accept having to do with working with your hands. As if manual dexterity is of a lower order of importance in the making of art, than to make something with your mind and to direct the labor to produce it. I feel this relationship of the artist as boss who directs labor to produce art, further emphasizes the elitism of a class stratified society.

In fact, working with your hands while using your mind is the very essence of artistic activity. This activity unifies the physical and cerebral into one activity. When I make my own art – when I actually print it – it is the fullest expression of my command of my mental artistic aims and my physical material conditions. It is pretentious to lead people to believe you produce your own prints, when you pay someone else to produce them.

If it is so glorious to produce the print, as many claim to do, when they do not, then why not get into the print studio and do the actual work. By working with the actual printing you will learn something about color, composition, design, screen printing itself (which is a physical activity), paper, ink, texture, luminosity, and the relationship between color and form. It will make you a better artist. If you do not print your own editions, don’t pretend like you do; It’s untruthful, and therefore can not be art. Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth. There I said it.

Full interview at Inside The Rock Poster Frame

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