Interviewer: What have you learned
from "do it yourself," like what have you learned from this whole nine years?
In the last nine years i've learned to remain patient
and calm. Things are going to be out of your control
yelling: "shut the [ __ ] up"
You just roll with it. If you complain, you're not going to make it in the world in general
and you're not going to make it trying to run a crew, an organization, or a business really.
We are here in Richmond, Virginia at the Few And Far 9 year anniversary event
with over 30 artists from around the country.
Oh my god welcome this is Few And Far's 9 year anniversary it's such a blessing to
be reunited with my sisters after two years shout out to Monster and all of our sponsors
What makes this event special is I mean just the amount of women that are here that showed up you
know we are used to doing crew walls we've done a lot of crew walls anniversary walls
it's just our crew but this time we have so many
friends, supporters, volunteers showing up just to really make a difference and what's also
important is just in the time that we're living in you know everyone's a little stir crazy from
being in quarantine we all really needed this for our souls to get out and to be with our sisters
and to paint and you know feel that freedom that painting gives you it's very important.
It's indescribable so much positivity we're all encouraging each other, inspiring each other,
and we need more of this in the world. Yo this is Whims, we're at the 9th anniversary
Few And Far event in Richmond. Shout out to Meme for putting this all together you're a goddess and
thank you so much for inviting me and all the women here that have made this so incredible.
Hi my name is Meme. Few And Far started in Oakland,
California in 2011. I've dedicated 21 years to my passion for graffiti and my passion
for community it's easy to be beaten down as a woman who wants to fight for women on walls
and it's harder than people might imagine it is so I feel like mimi is a fighter
and i'm really glad that she's here in Richmond to benefit this community.
Few And Far women is an organization we are now a non-profit of female skateboarders,
mural artists, graffiti artists, and we are the largest female graffiti crew in the world.
Queen Andrea here at the Few And Far 9 year anniversary
It's just really great i mean to participate in general. This is my favorite thing to do it's a
huge honor that Meme invited me. I love to rock with other women and something like this helps
us to build relationships with each other and for newer artists it, you know builds confidence
and it's a nice environment for us to just continue to be an amazing part of the culture.
So events like this are what motivated me to even dedicate my life to paintings.
This is Niz i'm from Austin, Texas. I started with stencil art and I started with that because
i've always been a skateboarder and I painted grip tapes and skateboards and the easiest way
to do that was with stencils and to use the minimal amount of paint when I moved to Austin
i sort of transferred into walls I just do stencil stuff but then
that sort of evolved too because stencils look really static and so my style's kind of evolved
to blend with you know with the graffiti walls and also have its own unique thing going on
Interviewer: let's talk a little bit of Lady Pink what do you know about Lady Pink?
oh my gosh so...wooh!
oh Lady Pink, oh my goodness I just about died and like I was crying like look Lady Pink
I mean it's hard to put into words we've all fan-girled out so hard and we will
admit it she's she's an icon, she's a legend, pioneer. Lady Pink is one of my
heroes. I looked up to her for so long she's amazing and inspiration, not just to me but
to everybody here. Everybody here is like so stoked to meet her to see her just painting.
She is one of the first women to really do fill-ins and large pieces on subway trains.
She definitely made a name for her with her wild style
and doing such large pieces and being a woman of color
it's a great honor to have her here and we're all so excited to meet her and just watch her paint.
I'm Lady Pink, i'm in Richmond,
Virginia at Few And Far painting with the girls...I think we totally kicked ass!
This is our 9 year, and we're headed to 10. Our crew is growing and we're so excited
for you all to see what comes next. Few And Far Women, refining the arts of the streets.