2010
New show happening this Fall – check it out! Skate This Art will produce another event in SF this Fall, at the Submission Art Space on Mission @ 18th streets, from October 10 – November 7. This event will have two receptions, on Saturday, October 16 and Tuesday, Dia de los Muertos (November 2), with raffles, silent auctions, live skate art demos, live music (Slim Jenkins on 10/16 and The Cuban Cowboys on 11/2), spoken word, poetry, book readings, and more! This event is a fundraiser for Skate This Art, so we can keep producing skateboard art exhibits. Artists keep 50% of all skate art sales. For more info, please contact us via email and/or phone. For an official application, please email us or download it here:
Fall 2010 Show @ Submission Art Space – Guidelines & Application
Skate This Art would like to thank all the folks who worked tirelessly to help put on the April show at Gallery 28 as well as the two-day show in the Marin Art Festival over Father’s Day weekend, helping make both shows successful and fun!
The Marin Art Festival was great; we had 87 skate art boards on display for sale by 30 artists! Check out the pics on our Facebook page (we’ll be adding pics to this website soon so check back in). We met many wonderful people who are very enthusiastic about working with Skate This Art on future exhibits, events, etc.
It was a blast!! Our “Skate This Art” exhibit from April 2-30 at Gallery 28 in North Beach was a smashing success!. We had 177 skate art pieces, by about 150 artists, from age 6-91, and from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds! We even had multiple small groups of students from two local schools participate! A small community of skate artists! Thank you! Together with you, we raised mad money for both the artists and the non-profit, North Beach Citizens!
Both receptions were great and successful. At the first one we had a raffle with many prizes donated by local sponsors and donors, a silent auction, and a poetry reading by the illustrious Jack Hirshman, poet laureate. At the second reception we had the raffle and the silent auction too, but added four short videos made just for us: “Hit the Decks” by Caleb Irie, ”YAA Girlz and the Deadly Sparks” by Patrick O’Neil, and the premiere “Make This Art – Skate This Art” by Geo Epsilanty and “Girls on Girls” by Patrick O’Neil about the female pioneers of SF punk music scene from late ’70′s to now.
Our apologies: we are an all volunteer team and have been so busy with the show, and our ‘real’ lives & jobs, that we’ve not yet had the time to upload the tons of photos of the amazing skateboard art. However, we have uploaded dozens of pics to our Facebook fan page, so … check out Skate This Art on your Facebook page and see all the cool pics of the skateboard art, many of the artists, and both receptions on Saturday, April 3 and Saturday, April 17th. You’ll also find pics from Skate This Art’s participation at the Marin Art Festival over Father’s Day weekend, June 19-20, 2010. We thank you for your patience, and will have pics on this site soon.
We are planning a Skate This Art event for Fall 2010, most likely from October-ish thru November-ish. We are hoping to produce this event at a venue in “la Mission” district of San Francisco, a place to have around 200 skate art pieces for display and sale, small stage with live music, poetry reading, book reading, spoken work, dance, etc., live skate art demos by artists like you, raffles, silent auction, and more. Since it will be during Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, consider these as themes if you want, upon which to base your next amazing skate art piece. But it’s not a requirement to participate, just a theme if ya want one!
Contact us if you have questions, comments, etc. and/or want to be involved with Skate This Art as an artists, volunteer, sponsor, or donor: info@skatethisart.com
