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My artist’s statement:

When Broome Community College in upstate New York asked me to give a speech at their convocation, I sat down and wrote a list of 10 things I wish I’d heard when I was a college student first starting out. That list became the speech, the speech became a popular blog post and the blog post became my second book, Steal Like an Artist. A lot of people have told me they wanted to hang my handwritten list on their wall, so now, almost one year after I wrote it, we’re releasing the list as a print. I hope you hang it somewhere you want to get good work done.

Very happy to announce my new print, “Creativity is Subtraction,” on sale now from 20×200.com. Buy it!

“Creativity is Subtraction” is actually the title of chapter ten of Steal Like An Artist. If you send in a receipt from a copy of Steal to Workman Publishing by midnight tonight (Feb. 28th), you have a chance to win one of these babies framed! Details here.

You can see all of my 20×200 prints on Pinterest.

A new 20×200 print, “So Many Places,” is available through WestElm.com.

the world is so many places! — yet home is the word we’re encouraged to find

See the rest of my prints→

Here’s an excerpt of a mini-interview I did with the West Elm folks:

How do you live with art?

My wife and I work together in a home studio, so we like to surround ourselves with art by filling our walls with pieces from artists we love. Sometimes I’ll even frame and hang pictures of (mostly dead) artist heroes of mine — they’re like friendly ghosts, I can feel them pushing me on while I work. (It’s way less morbid than it sounds.)

What is a favorite gallery or museum that you particularly love or that inspires your work?

Here in Austin, Texas, I really like to stop by Yard Dog Art Gallery on South Congress and see the stuff they have up. Because I’m both a writer and an artist, my absolute favorite spot in town is the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas campus — their archive is massive and their exhibits are terrific. I’ve seen everything there from original Frida Kahlo paintings to James Joyce manuscripts.

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what is the most fun / is to grab you / and find something wrong to do

In plenty of time for Valentine’s Day, here’s a new blackout print from 20×200!

Just in time for the holidays, here are two brand-new Newspaper Blackout prints.

“Open Road” available at 20×200.com→

“How To Be Cool” available at 20×200.com→

This poem is a “deleted scene”—it was cut from my book, Newspaper Blackout, late in the editing process, although now I can’t remember why. It was made from an article about the Brooklyn rapper Lil Mama.

Also: Steal Like An Artist is available for pre-order!

See more of my work for sale →

Marriage is two people in love / standing in the same bathroom

I mean, yes, we’re sinking … but the music is exceptional

One of my all-time favorite blackout poems is now an affordable print at 20×200!

Details

- Signed and numbered edition of 50
- 26″ x 40″ on 100 pound paper

Backstory

The minute I saw the GBV posters that my friends Satch Grimley and Jaime Cervantes screenprinted, I knew I wanted to collaborate with them on a big Newspaper Blackout print. We batted around a few ideas, came up with a design we liked, and I brought my camera down to Red Bluff Studio on Saturday and filmed them working their magic.

Watch the video of them printing:

The fellas will be printing at the Art Authority during SXSW, so if you’re in town next month for the festival, be sure to check them out!

On Sundays now, Meghan and I meet in our library and pack orders from the store for an hour or two, then on Monday Meg takes them to the post office to ship. (Read more about how things work…)

Here’s our “warehouse” of supplies:

The whole store experiment has been really great. And it’s not just sending the work out directly to people’s doorsteps, but also the chance to collaborate with my awesome wife. She’s super-organized and runs the show. I couldn’t do it without her. Thanks, honey.

And thanks to everybody who’s placed an order! Here’s what’s on sale: store.austinkleon.com

I am so excited to announce that my friends at Wire & Twine are handprinting our first-ever Newspaper Blackout t-shirt. I’m a customer, so I know their impeccable design taste and the high-quality of their products, but I also know that they’re good Ohio folks, based out of Oxford, a small town where I spent four of my favorite years.

“Creativity is subtraction.” It’s not a poem, it’s a rallying cry.

These tees are handprinted on American Apparel triblend atheletic heathered gray t-shirts. Which are super soft. (Meg and I own several.)

On sale now: store.austinkleon.com

Buy yours now! The preorder sale is now over. Check the store to see if more are available.