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Graffiti Women Panel Discussion
Brooklyn Museum
November 18, 2006 2PM

On Saturday, November 18 at 2 pm the Brooklyn Museum will host a Graffiti Women panel discussion that will provide a special opportunity to hear from the graffiti writers/artists themselves. Artists Lady Pink, Toofly and Lady k fever will be the panelists.

Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents
by Nicholas Ganz
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Female writers have always been in the vanguard of the graffiti movement, though often shunted to the sidelines by their male counterparts. With the publication of GRAFFITI WOMEN: Street Art From Five Continents (November; $29.95; Abrams: ISBN 0-8109-5747-7) for the first time a lavishly illustrated in depth book places them front and center of this evolving art form..

Featuring 1,000 full-color illustrations from some of the world’s most prominent graffiti and street artists, including Americans Lady Pink, Swoon, and Miss 17, Brazil’s Nina, Japan’s Sasu, and Mexico’s Peste, this first-ever comprehensive book includes two eight-page fold-out collages, a fold-out poster jacket, and an authoritative text.

American graffiti artists/writers that are highlighted in the book include: Aiko (NY), Are2, Cade (NY), Che Jen (NY), Claw & Misssl7 (NY), Constance Brady (NY), Diva (NY), Dona (NY), Eroticaa67 (NY), Femme9 (Kansas), Fever (NY), Maya Hayuk (NY), Horsie (Pittsburgh), Jakee (NY), Jel (LA), Jen Props (NY), Jerk (LA), Lady Pink (NY), Luna (LA), Melina (NY), Muck, Queen Andrea (NY), RB827 (NY), Reminisce (San Francisco), Ropas (NY), Sherm (LA), Siloette (Phoenix), Solovei, Swoon (NY), Thundercut (NY), Toofly (NY), Tribe (LA), T.W. (San Francisco).

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Posted at 7:52AM, 8 November 2006 PDT (permalink)