Fall 2001 Best Of No Shame program cover.

SHORT STORY: For the first time anywhere, the original-art painting of the program cover.

LONG STORY: Most of the art in the gallery is being scanned from archived flyers, programs, etc. I believe preserving the rumpled/damaged/disappointing historical document is in keeping with this archive's spirit. But. I was so severely disappointed with the printing job of this cover that I a) want a do-over, b) don't want to preserve the program as handed out that night in Mabie Theatre.
Most No Shame art is reproduced on a photocopier for stapling to telephone poles, so it is usually done in high-contrast black India ink-on-bristol. I run a few proofs, make changes and have the final art run off by copy shop flunkies. This always causes minor errors- cut-off edges, blurred lettering, etc, but never THIS BAD: My personal proofs preserved both the acrylic painting and the India ink washes. Insensitive technology/ indifferent technicians ended up muddying my clouds into fingerpaint blobs and poor tonal settings obliterated all the ink-wash work. The rest of the program is presented as-is.

Wearing pretension like a fine-weave garment,
---Rev. C. Stangl

NOTES:
No Shame's most ambitious program ever also proves most rife with error and folly. Here multiple pieces were inadvertently left out of the "Order," while the unnoticing artist indulges in masturbatory excess. Note "authentic" crinkling and rumpling. That lends validity as a historical document!

Last-hour addition of "disclaimer." The story goes:
During the prior week of No Shame Theatre, Neil "Balls" Campbell was bum-rushed on-stage and stripped bare-ass-and-sac by his friends, in tribute to his last week of regular performance. Some nameless neophyte NST-attendee was disturbed by this and had her parents (?...!) contact multiple U of I officials, including theatre department honchos. This led to... no consequence besides a disclaimer which is now posted outside the theatre door before each show (which was always University policy anyway).