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“Art of Graffiti 2.0″ Video Clip

Graff junkies getting funky fresh on 6th and Howard. Check out the video to get a feel of what 1AM’s Art of Graffti 2.0 class has to offer! Interested? Intrigued? Tickled pink? Contact Gina at: classes@1amsf.com for more information, or CLICK HERE for online enrollment.

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Can I Get a YahOooooOo Up In Here?

A few months ago, 1:AM was contacted by Tom Wailes, Senior Director of Product Design at Yahoo! Local. He wanted to have a fun corporate offsite for his team, and so he rounded up his gang of Yahoo-ligans(term of endearment!) and brought them to 1:AM to get down and dirty with graffiti. Our resident graffiti [...]

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Ode to the Classes

Now if you haven’t heard (since you’ve been under a rock for the past 2 years), 1:AM offers art classes, and not just any classes.  We offer street art classes like history of graffiti and toy modification, all to satiate your craving for creativity and fun.  With that, all of these classes would not have [...]

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CURATOR NATHAN TAN, AKA NATE1, ON THE CLASSICS

1:AM sits down with the curator of The Classics, open now through October 16th. Valerie Leavy: What is it about graffiti that lights yer fire? Nathan Tan aka Nate1: It is an art form I started doing as a kid, and I still find it challenging now as an adult some 23 years later. VL: [...]

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NATE1 “MASTER PIECE CREATORS YALL!”

He is an artist.  A curator.  A teacher.  A clothing designer.  An entrepreneur.  A judge for Estria’s Invitational Graffiti Battle.  He loves graffiti and you will know that in the first seconds you meet him.  No one speaks as fondly and passionately about their love affair with graffiti like Nate does. For our current exhibition [...]

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THE CLASSICS OPENING RECEPTION

We’ve been slow on the jump.  “The Classics”, a graffiti art exhibit curated by Nate1, opened last week at 1:AM gallery.  The night was full of old skool graffiti writers from Bay Area’s Golden Age of Graffiti, DJ Dizzy from SF Zulu, DJ ExtraLars, DJ Deandroid, DJ Chris the Rebel, MykeOne AlmightyDjs and CUBA on [...]

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SFBG GIVING THE CLASSICS LOVE!

We had the pleasure of meeting Caitlin Donohue, a culture writer for SFBG, last week.  She and her friends were able to attend a sneak peek of The Classics with a private walking tour / commentary by Nate1, our curator and teacher extraordinaire .  Check out what she thought of the show and Nate1: Golden [...]

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THE CLASSICS ON DECK!

It’s our favorite part of a new opening… when artists from different walks of life, grace our 6th Street wall.  We get excited and giddy like schoolgirls cause we get to watch amazing artists get down and paint.  Nate1, curator of The Classics, wanted to get all the artists on the wall somehow (note: there [...]

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AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A SHE THANG #2: KICKIN’ IT WITH THE YMCA BAYVIEW GIRLS

You always hear about those male graff artists painting a dope mural, but how often do you hear about female graff arists? Well 1:AM had the pleasure of hosting a private mural workshop for a group of young women(ages 11-14) from YMCA Bayview  These young women, and dare I say future artists, brainstormed a concept [...]

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FACEBOOK GETTIN’ DOWN ON 6TH!

“This is better than our sky diving offsite!”  WOW!  We were so flattered when we overheard someone say that… A team from Facebook wanted to celebrate the completion of one of their big projects.  But being a leader in innovation and out of the box thinking, Facebook was looking for something different… something with a [...]

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