Every 1st Sunday of the month, the Castro Art Mart features LGBTQIA+ art, live music, drag performances, and local artists and photographers selling their work. It takes place at the intersection of Noe & Market St (next to the Lookout Bar) between 11-5pm.
Sunday, May 4th, come visit Queer LifeSpace's tent at the Castro Art Mart and enjoy a free stenciling workshop by renowned SF-based street artist and muralist Jeremy Novy.
We'll start at 1pm and continue in rounds until supplies run out. Participants will leave with a beautiful stenciled bandana — a custom piece of artwork you can wear around your neck OR which you can fashion into a flag! All stencil choices will be related to queer rights and queer solidarity.
Note: Stenciling requires the use of spray paint. Face masks will be provided to participants.
About Artist Jeremy Novy:
Jeremy Novy’s unique brand of street art is ripe with thoughtful social examinations. Novy has combated a homophobic lack of representation with a celebration of gay iconography, bringing joviality and warmth to disused urban spaces.
With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he curated the first major exhibition of its kind, “A History of Queer Street Art,” premiered in San Francisco in 2011 and later toured to Pop Up Gallery in Los Angeles and Yale University.
Since graduating from Pecks School of the Arts, Novy’s art has been met with acclaim across the country. His work has benefited non-profit foundations, advocacy organizations, and community service programs and has been featured in numerous films, books, publications, and collections public and private.
His stencil work is cogent in its messaging and remarkably complex for its compositional simplicity—like the koi fish of his most-established series which, floating beneath the surface of concrete, refer to anti-authoritarian coded symbols in Chinese art under communism.
His pioneering images of drag queens, physique pictorials, and pornography bring to life the multiplicity of modern identity, reminding us that the we, each of us, must walk the streets of our cities in collective solidarity.
https://jeremynovystencils.com
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