Wooster Collective
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Wooster Collective is a website that showcases street art from around the world. It is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. Updated by Marc and Sara Schiller, the site also offers podcasting with music and interviews featuring street artists.
11 Spring Street Project
In 2006, the Schillers collaborated with Caroline Cummings and Bill Elias, members of a development group, to turn the building on 11 Spring Street in New York City into a temporary street art gallery. The address had been something of a landmark for street artists, and is being converted into condominium apartments. Elias Cummings contacted the Schillers (after finding the Wooster Collective site while researching street art) and asked them to curate a show at the location celebrating the building's history.
The show ran for three days, from December 15 to December 17, 2006, with lines stretching around the block. Street artists such as Shepard Fairey, Swoon, D*Face, The London Police, Skewville, Lady Pink, John Fekner and Don Leicht, Graffiti Research Lab and many others participated in the event. Each artist in the show had previously been featured on the Wooster Collective site. The art will be left on the walls and built over (a nod to the tradition in construction of leaving newspapers in the walls of a house as a sort of "time capsule").
