Mission School
ミッション・スクール / 1990s–early 2000s / Style / Street Style
A 1990s San Francisco DIY art language that mixed storefront signs, skating, comics, folk art, urban scrap, small drawings, and handmade installations to record life and change around the Mission District.
Work on cardboard, scrap wood, and reused signs / Comic figures and dense hand lettering / Worn local color led by brown, black, and red / Improvised displays linking skating, shops, and street life
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Joining local shops, street life, music, and skating into one handmade exhibition · Recording neighborhood change through drawing and reused material instead of new production
- Type
- Mix sign painting with small handwriting instead of unifying everything into a polished logo.
- Composition
- Cluster boards, papers, and photographs so fragments reveal themselves while the viewer walks.
- Material
- Use scrap wood, cardboard, latex paint, pencil, and copier paper, preserving earlier words and damage.
- Caution
- Do not borrow rough drawing while deleting the place. Name the Mission community, artist relationships, and gentrification context.
- Further study
- Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen and Chris Johanson / Mission District storefronts and Clarion Alley / DIY networks, gentrification and Bay Area art
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- Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) (ローブロウ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Play.Compare Mission School and Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism)
- Graffiti Pop (グラフィティ・ポップ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Play.Compare Mission School and Graffiti Pop
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