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A positive and fun way to counteract the powerlessness that the current political climate has brought to young people, The Guerilla Art Kit is geared toward creative 20-somethings. Readers are encouraged to share their messages with the world, demonstrating that they can directly affect their environment on a regular basis by leaving art and ideas in public places such as their street, their front yard or their office. The activities are simple, fun and have a positive result. Created with an innovative small notebook-style design with spiral binding, the book has a homemade, eclectic look, implementing found paper and simple line drawings. Quick exercises include leaving a book for a stranger to find or chalking a message on the sidewalk. There are also more involved projects such as making a wish tree, guerrilla gardening or designing your own stencils. Whatever the choice, The Guerilla Art Kit is all about leaving a mark on the world in a fun and creative way.
About the Author
KERI SMITH is the author of Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life and Tear Up This Book! The Sticker, Stencil, Stationery, Games, Crafts, Doodle, and Journal Book for Girls! She blogs daily at Wish Jar Journal, which has over 10,000 readers daily. Keri spends her days playing with her husband and son, reading, cooking and writing books. As from Fall 2010 she teaches part time at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In the last few years (before 2011) she has given lectures on a variety of topics for various institutions and schools across North America.
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What is the point of a piece that is meant to be temporary? All of the exercises in this book are meant to be done as temporary installations. Read the first page
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What is the point of a piece that is meant to be temporary? All of the exercises in this book are meant to be done as temporary installations. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Guerilla Art Kit,
This review is from: The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (Spiral-bound)
Why is this book $13.57 in the US and $16.57 in Canada? My experience with this book is that I can see from the preview that I would like it, but don't see why Canadians have to pay $3.00 more.
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Excellent book,
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This review is from: The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (Spiral-bound)
It's not every day you find a book that provides this much fun from cover to cover. Excellent for anyone who is over the age of 5 but has yet to discover it.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews) 31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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Guerilla art is for everyone.,
By april - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (Spiral-bound)
This is an EXCELLENT book! Anxiously awaiting its arrival, I came home from work today to find it waiting for me on my doorstep. I sat down after dinner and read it cover to cover. This book is a great source of inspiration - it's filled to the brim with fun projects and informational overviews of what guerilla art is, finding that art within yourself and projects to begin stirring up creativity within yourself - whether you choose your art to be public or not. It will definitely help to brighten up your creative life.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Wild and Unique,
By CLG "Carrie Greenwald" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (Spiral-bound)
I really didn't know what to expect with this book and so it is a great surprise to me to see that it actually encourages random, yet in a healthy, natural, non-crime sort of way, to do various activities to get others in our small little world to really think or react. Some activities are very pleasing to me - flower seed bombs - while others may give people pause if they came up on it in today's paranoid/terrorist world. Sad, but true. I do feel that the positive light in which it is written, projects recommended, and more is great. I just wish we all lived in the world where the author resides. Rather sad commentary, I know, but that is the way life is today. I think I had more fun reading it and imaging myself doing some of the guerilla art projects in my own conservative neighborhood. I will do the flower seed bombs with native plant seeds for boy, some areas of the city I live in could really use some bright purple flowers!! I already do this around my own yard and can say WOW for now my purple botanical natives are really showing some outstanding colorwork around my home, in places not normally flower friendly (earth-wise).So if you are wild at heart or really need a book to make you become this way - get this book. It is not for the conservatives or the paranoids out there. 21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent Guerilla Girl (or Boy) primer!!,
By Kathlene Kelly "hermit girl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (Spiral-bound)
The Guerilla Art Kit is a charming addition to author/illustrator Keri Smith's curriculum vitae. Its attraction stems from its low-key style and a wealth of ideas executed well enough to appear at odds with the simplistic cover. Thumbing randomly through the book is unavoidable; it exudes an odd sort of charisma.The concept of guerilla art is a clever one. Who doesn't find the idea of a sneak attack appealing? The notion of walking tiptoe through some moldy paradigms to pop up suddenly with a speedy installation of public art and slipping away before the masses shake the haze from their eyes feels personal and fun. As a self-defined non-artist I look for ways to articulate impressions that feel like me rather than feel like art. The descriptor "non-artist" relieves most societal and personal pressure and expectation leaving room to play with ideas that include genuine expression of my self and my experiences. When a sharp idea like guerilla art comes along it adds a measure of amusement to the process. I'm already envisioning an art rebellion complete with secret handshake and passwords and covert operations to be carried out by members of the creative underground - a sort of "Hogan's Heroes" meets Bansky plus flash mob. Jennifer New's book gave me insight into what a journal could be but the artistic skill exhibited in those pages is a bit daunting to one who scribbles on scraps and torn pages and later can't read her own writing. The Guerilla Art Kit, while not a journal oriented, fleshed out my perspective with fun, quirky ideas and created a new line of thinking for me. Its unconventional cover and construction siphon away the intimidation factor - it's a tool the average non-artist can love unconditionally. It truly is enchanting. |
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