will,jon mac,ryan

will, jon mac,ryan




photo by faythe levine

wayne, amy, chris

Wayne, Amy, her cousin Chris Muchko

per, etc

Per Hanson and a bunch of other folks including Ellf (aka Beer Hole), Marshall, Seneca...

mattie

playing guitar at alberta's show.

chester

Chester, brilliant comic strip artist. Occasional pants-pisser. When he really fucked up, I called him by his real name-Bruce.

will,airaq,fraser,jake

karen's show

Karen was an intern. Her show was a performance piece involving music, motion, paint, and white. As always, click on any pick to enlarge.

ira

Ira. WBSA house dj crew DANCE! ATTACK! member, all around excellent character. Somewhere out west now?

graham

graham did some things at the art school. i think that he made a go at taking care of the place when I "went away".

dancin danny

Dancin Danny, Masters Degree from Cornell, Special Ex expert, and Swamper extraordinaire. Swamped the Viking and Blondies (now Triple Rock). Man can dance.

pat,kj,dr.fatass

Aisha recently helped me remember that the name is DR FATASS, not Dr. Sphincter. Thanks Aisha.

karen,wendy

airaq,ryan,araby,mattie's back

mattie playing music at alberta's art show.

naomi huberty, jeannie reno

naomi and jeannie. the night of the theft of the palmers chair.

ellf, seneca

tulip sweet and her trail of tears

tom and steph aka tulip sweet and her trail of tears performing live at the west bank school of art. was this the second anniversary of the art school party? or am i just making all this shit up?

luke the kid, sean sean greenteeth

cnf,some guy whose name i can't remember,grant

chris nickel-felton, the guy whose name i don't remember, grant

sonya

sonya, before the baby

will, ira, jake

2002. will. ira. jake houle.

frank

frank henry rawlins III. book release party. "electric power company"
2001?

june moon

June Moon on a visit to the artschool.

frances gumm

Paul D. and the boys of Frances Gumm live at the West Bank School of Art. Maybe 2000? 2001? Damn, wish I wouln't have left the WBSA log behind when I disappeared. Maybe somebodies got it somewhere. Anyways, they played music at Sven von Lynch's first WBSA show.

Laura Brandenburg

Laura Brandenburg at an early Free Beer and Poetry night.

roger,faythe

roger, faythe levine. i think this photo may have been taken before faythe moved on to milwaukee

fcr,naomi

fat chick riq and naomi huberty. 2001, maybe 2002

alberta

Alberta painting the walls blue for her show. 2002?

Doyle,Miles,Zoe

Ryan Doyle (former art school professor),
Miles (Long-time keyholder and all-around excellent human),
and Zoe

theft of the palmers chair

A long night at Palmers and then somehow this chair followed us back to the art school. It went home the next day.

everett,ryan,jake,?,juli

Will, Petrich

Uncle Hoodlum was my first art teacher. He started the first West Bank School of Art aka Uncle Hoodlum's School of Art for Wayward Youth in the backyard of the Hard Times after shortly after the last Cedarfest. I didn't want to paint. I just wanted to hang out, drink coffee, and smoke things like cigarettes and stuff. He kind of tricked me and sold my first painting at the Viking to Johno for 2 hundred bucks. After that, I figured it was time to be an artist.



Will, Jeff "Uncle Hoodlum" Petrich

stencil

The WBSA Ass Stencil. Stenciled ass recognized
but listed here as anonymous.

View from the street

dumpy,rayna,jean

Absolutely no idea when. Guessing we had
some fun though.

jake houle,free beer and poetry

jake doing poetry

ray,uptown aaron

Ray Hill, Aaron

mj,pat,kj,ellf

mj aka auntie em,pat starr,kj,ellf

2nd anniversary?

Sometime around the second anniversary of the art school.



Ryan,Leif,Julie,Jake

Aprils show

West Bank School of Art had several kickass interns. Interns got to have keys for a month or two, culminating in a show of art school-produced stuff. I have no clue as to when April's show was. I remember that it was winter.



April,Miz Molly,Tom(aka Mollie's dad)

Tired boys

Most likely a bike club function. 200?



Ian and Nightengale all tuckered out.

Dan Scheidt show

Little Dan reading poetry at his show. 200?



Dan, front row Lil Jenny,?, Mutt

Looks like poetry night

April, Fred, Nightie, Doyle, Will

Sven Lynch show.

The evening is just getting started.
Sven got the art on the walls
and is just getting started vernissagering
or whatever it is that those fancy art guys do.

Per Hanson show

Per Hanson show, wind-powered kinetic sculpture. Per calls them
whirligigs as do most people I guess.
Click on pics to enlarge if that sort of thing turns your crank.




Facing the camera Big Luke, Marshall, Chester

free beer and poetry

An evening of free beer and poetry. Smilin Joe, Jake's back, Ellf,
Ponytail of Marty. 1999, 2000?

view from the street -1999?

Taken maybe in 99, perhaps just previous to 1st open mike ever.