A Slideshow/Artist Talk on the Street Art Workers
SYDNEY, SquatSpace, NUCA, and MICKIE QUICK presents:
Slideshow/artist talk on the Street Art Workers (www.streetartworker s.org) and their Land and Globalization poster campaign.
SAW’s founding member, Claude Moller, is in Sydney promoting SAW, and he will be on-hand to talk about the group, their international poster project, and state of street art in America.
Established in the U.S. in 2OOl, SAW is a global network of artists who use graphic art to support social change. SAW makes and distributes posters internationally to publicize the work of local grassroots activism. The group relies on street art to take back cities and towns from the businessmen, cops, and politicians who define public space for their own benefit. Since 2001, SAW projects have talked about prisons, the mass media, and utopian ideas for the future.
SAW’s latest campaign, Land and Globalization, looks at how corporate globalization has affected our world, how it has impacted the land, and how people are fighting back. This series includes 25 posters representing artists from 10 different countries and over 20 different cities. These posters illustrate specific struggles in countries like Brazil and the United States, and they also tackle international issues around poverty and gentrification. Along with a strong critique of imperialism, the posters show how communities throughout the world are resisting corporate power for a more just and sustainable world.
Claude Moller is the co-founder of SAW. He is a San Francisco-based activist/street artist who has been making murals, stencils and screenprints since the early 1990s. He is the co-ordinator of the SF Print Collective (www.sfprintcollective.com), and the former manager of the Community Art Program at Hospitality House (www.hospitalityhouse.org). His work has been featured in numerous magazines and books, including Stencil Pirates, The Interventionists and Peace Signs.
MONDAY JANUARY 28TH FROM 8PM AT SYDNEY 302 CLEVELAND ST SURRY HILLS