Russell Howze

writer, stencil art collector

Russell Howze is the author of Stencil Nation and the founder of StencilArchive.org. He saw his first stencil in 1990 in Clemson, SC. When he landed in San Francisco in 1997, he found dozens on the sidewalks of the Mission and Haight neighborhoods. He's never stopped photographing the sometimes temporary, always intriguing art form. He currently lives in San Francisco's Mission District. [Source: http://russell-howze-stencil-nation-4890984.cooga.net/]