CWU EVENT
Ink Slingas Ball Poster
 
iNK SLiNGAS BALL
May 16th and 17th.
You are most cordially invited to the Ink Slingas Ball.  The Amazing Hancock Brothers in cahoots with the nascent Creative Workers Union have assembled today's freshest printmakers -- ink slingas as it were -- for a 2-day art ordeal corralled under one roof. 

These are the Ink Slingas, the dirty divas of the deckle edge, outlaw printmakers, and the acid-etched bringers of ink-driven mayhem.......no where on Earth has this level of talent and excitement been assembled......ONLY IN AUSTIN.....quite frankly because you demand it.

But wait dear friend there is oh so much more.
 
There will be live printing demos by: Industry Print Studios & Drive-By Press

There will be music -- DJed and LIVE! DJ Chepo and HUG along with the famed HUG dancers have committed to this art scrum for Friday night. The Amazing Hancock Brothers - who take poetry to  the next level with their own peculiar spoken word performance -- will be in attendance as well.  Stay tuned we are also in delicate negotiations with another band for Saturday.
 
Yes oh yes my brothers and sisters -
PRINTS WILL BE ON SALE FOR $50 AND LESS
(the vast majority of them that is). 
 
 
AND WE GOT MERCH:
t-shirts!
coozies!
patches and pins!
other strange and wonderful ephemera for sale!

Buy your Christmas/Hanukah /Kwanza/Ramadan/Arbor Day gifts now!

Hard to buy for crazy uncles?
NO problem.....the answer is at the Ink Slingas Ball.
 
Shake out your wig hats, drag out dem high heel sneakers and look pretty cos the Ink Slingas Ball is in town...........say OHHHHHH HEEEEELLLLLLLYEAHHHHH

Ink Slingas Ball
at the United States Art Authority
2906 Fruth Street
(Next to Spider House)
Friday May 16 from 6:00pm to 11:00pm
Saturday May 17 from Noon to 6::00 pm


We hope to see you there,

Bart Kibbe, director, CWU
Joshua Kramer, director, CWU


Creative Workers Union
2130 Goodrich Ave.
Austin, TX 78704

creativeworkersunion.org
THE MANiACAL ARTiSTS iNCLUDE:

Amazing Hancock Bros.
Charles HancockJohn Hancock

Charles & John Hancock
Where east meets south. Texanese by birth, twins separated by 18 months. They are not quite irish, but half japanese and texan, they are the new breed of ink slingers, printmakers, poets,performers.

Their images and texts are hardboiled, leaning toward the the neo-expressionist catalogue but they are not above doing a nice landscape from time to time for a finicky uncle at christmas.


Drive By Press

Drive By Press

DBP is a self- funded endeavor solely surviving on small visiting artists honorariums from schools and the sales from printing wood blocks on paper and t-shirts. The blocks have been graciously donated from some of the greatest wood cut artists in the country to support and perpetuate the the endeavor of Drive By press!!


Cannonball Press

Martin Mazorra

Mike Houston

 



Martin Mazorra & Mike Houston

The Cannon ball Print: A down-home dish that is tasty hot or cold. For low-fat version, subsitute another printing press, because these things will put meat on your bones!

    * 1 lurking artist

    * 1 one-eyed master-printer

    * 1 idea

    * 5 cups backwater goo

    * 6 spoonfuls of jumpstart and holler

    * 9lb mess with your face

    * bottle Tickle-My-Fancy

    * 6 smatterings kick-ass juice

    * 1 handful of Fine Art

Preheat idea in Oven of Rock. Make sure color is off! Allow images to gestate and contort at will. When mysterious,funny or twisted, remove and slap on table. Add all ingredients, and beat and cut until smooth and hot. Do not add Fine Art at this point. Add master-printer, work him into a steady boil, edition.Throw Fine Art in trash. Sign and Serve.


Failure
Failure


Jasun "Bat Daddy" Huerta

Jasun "Bat Daddy" Huerta


Matt Rebholz
Matt Rebholz
My work is rooted in a tradition of figuration that explores a narrative sensibility laden with a combination of violence, mordant humor, and social consciousness. The little worlds that result from this equation appear in claustrophobic compositions overwhelmed by the detail of an elaborate linear density. They are the state for vignettes that play themselves out in the mundae environments infused with an atmosphere of the mythic and theatrical. these spaces tend to be warped, claustrophobic and stressful, with densely patterned carpets and tiling twisting to improbable angles.


Katy Seals
Katy Seals

"DPA 4LYF"

Dennis McNett

Dennis McNett

Dennis McNett was born in 1972 and grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. He moved to New York in 2001 (3 weeks before Sept.11th) and has lived there since. He has been carving the hell out of surly block prints for over 16 years. All of his encouragement as a young kid came from his blind grandfather, who told him over and over again that his drawings were good. Like a billion other teenaged kids, later influences came from the raw high-energy images pouring out of the 80's skateboard scene. Dennis has been fortunate enough to have designed board graphics for Anti-Hero skateboards and collaborate with Cannonball Press. He works from his Brooklyn studio that over looks the smoggy Brooklyn Queens Expressway. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, where he teaches as a visiting instructor at the graduate and undergraduate level. He has also taught at Parsons, Rutgers and the Lower Eastside Print shop. He wants to live until he dies. Breathing is good.


Sean Star Wars
Sean Star Wars

I make a lot of woodcuts and and drink a lot of Mountain Dew


Smut
Smut


Penny VanHorn
Penny VanHorn

Artoonist and illustrator and, so far, have primarily worked in scratchboard, linoleum and wood block.

The Enger Bros.

Ryan O'Malley

AND MANY MORE...

TiME
MAY. 16
(FRiDAY 6pm - 11pm)

MAY. 17
(SATURDAY Noon - 6pm)
LOCATiON
United States Art Authority
2906 Fruth St.
(By Spider House)

Click Here For Location Map


COST

There will be no charge at the door for you to enter this event. It's free. After all, its about the artist we have on display. Click the DONATE button below for those of you who would like to help with the CWU movement. Thank you!

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EVENT POSTER BY
Jasun "Bat Daddy" Huerta
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