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| | PAINTED ROOMS 4.0 | | Hotel des Arts | wednesday night | august 3rd  Last year, START SOMA launched an art gallery in the HOTEL DES ARTS - a 51
room boutique art hotel in the heart of San Francisco's Union Square. Over the past months, some of the premier emerging + underground artists in the
world have been painting rooms in the
Hotel des Arts, and the response has
been pretty amazing... NEW YORK TIMES FEATURE STORY
MORE ART HOTEL PRESS COVERAGE | | TEN NEW ROOMS! |
| BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE ! ALL the previously painted rooms will be open for your viewing pleasure...
 Brad K. Alder | APEX | Brian Barneclo | David DeRosa David Choe | Bryan Dawson | Josh Feldman | Sam Flores Tim Gaskin | Maria Gillespie | Maya Hayuk | Logan Hicks Terrance Hughes | Klutch + The Vinyl Killers | Jet Martinez MATZU MTP + MISK | NEON | Kelly Ording | Eric Orr Punkadelik | Jimmy Soat | Damon Soule | Anthony Skirvin Kelly Tunstall | Vulcan | | | | | music from DJ Tom Thump performances from CAI the ice cream man ????
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WEDNESDAY | AUGUST 3 | 7:00 pm - midnight Hotel des Arts | 447 BUSH at GRANT featuring HUNDREDS of pieces of NEW ART for LESS than $100 SO BRING YOUR CHECKBOOKS... FREE ADMISSION! COLLECTORS PREVIEW from 5 until 7 RSVP via info@startsoma.com | | |
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Hotel des Arts: Punkadelik Room ALL of the PAINTED ROOMS are available at NO CHARGE to local photographers + stylists + magazines for photo shoots kindly contact john@startsoma.com for details |
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open call for submissions of political art
full details
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| and this just in... 
GRAFFITI: URBAN SCRAWL OR ARTISTIC FREEDOM? | AUGUST 16
APEX, Street Artist
BEN MORGAN, Director, Quality of Life (Graffiti Film)
JOHN DOFFING, Founder, START SOMA + START MOBILE Art Galleries
MOHAMMED NURU, Chair, San Francisco's Graffiti Advisory Board
Anti-Graffiti Community Activist – TBA
Moderator - Jonathon Keats
From its contemporary origins in the late 1960s, graffiti has spread globally, from the city and boroughs of New York to walls around the world. Some see the proliferation of graffiti as a veritable modern plague, an urban blight that clearly diminishes quality of life. Others would argue that today's graffiti is a historically significant art form, providing a unique means of creative expression to the disenfranchised and marginalized. Are the words of the prophets truly written on subway walls and tenement halls, or is graffiti nothing more than mindless vandalism that is directly linked to a host of societal ills? You be the judge.
The evening's discussion opens with a slide show presentation by Jim Prigoff, an internationally known historian and documenter of murals, spraycan art and popular street culture. His co-authored the book "Spraycan Art" with Henry Chalfant is considered a seminal work and has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. He has lectured in Museums, Universities and other venues around the world. Jim's personally photographed documentation is considered the largest of its kind and it is said that he has seen more street art than any other individual. His other co-authored books cover the murals of California and the History of African American Murals in the U.S. The show from this book opened at the Smithsonian, Anacostia on July 11th of this year.
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| | the latest issues of both MESH and EYEON will be distributed FREE at the opening. BOTH magazines include features on START SOMA artist in residence, Casey O'Connell.
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Thank you! info@STARTsoma.com
*PAINTED ROOMS 4.0 photography by Isaac McKay-Randozzi. |
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