Fellow Fluxists,
A new exchange is underway hope you will participate.
Cecil Touchon, Director
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Bakers 1/2 Dozen North
American Collage Exchange - Deadline September 1st, 2005
An Exchange of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage
Artists
(ISACA web http://collagists.com) and
The International Museum
of Collage,
Assemblage and Construction (IMCAC web http://collagemuseum.com)
Deadline September 1st, 2005
This document may be found
at http://collagemuseum.com/collage-exchange-0905.html
OPEN TO ALL
THEME:
Portrait, Bust, Head, Face, Art of Personality, Character Building, Personage. Can be Digital, Photomontage
or Collage
Artists each
make 7 collages,
size 9" X 12" , and send them to arrive before September 1st, 2005.
- One
collage is then retained
to be part of the permanent collection of the International Museum of
Collage, Assemblage and Construction, while remaining permanently on
exhibition on the Museum's Internet site (http://collagemuseum.com) and
exhibited in an show at the Museum in November '05 as well as
considered for future traveling exhibitions and other projects.
- The
other 6 are distributed into parcels which are sent back to each
contributing artist.
So
you send 7 of yours, get back 6 others.
Here's how it works:
FAQ
- Quality / Curating / Acceptance?
All work by adults 18 and older is accepted.
Works will be sorted and exchanged as equally as possible according to
quality. The intention of all of the Museum's exchanges is to establish
a dialog and exchange of ideas about how to work in the mediums of
collage and montage among colleagues. By exchanging actual examples we
get to see first hand how each other works. This sis intended to lead
to higher standards and more inspired and satisfying work. Join our
email group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/collage/
- Framed or mounted?
No frames. 9" X 12" base using acid free mat board, watercolor paper,
or other non acidic support of archival value
Collages can be any size smaller, then attached to a 9X12 piece of
thick watercolor paper or matted. Please use interleafing between
collages. (Smooth newsprint, brown craft or white butcher
paper work well if you don't have any acid free interleafing paper. I
have noticed collages some times stick together. It may also be a good
idea to individually place each work into an envelope or plastic
enclosure.
- NOT TOO THICK. Please, no sharp
big bits of metal sticking up or unruly 3D items. Keep it flat!
Try to keep the maximum thickness down to less than 1/4 an inch.
- Originals, a series or copies?
Works should be original hand constructed paper collages, each unique.
If a digital collage or photo-montage is submitted, each should be
printed at professional quality and such works should be original in
that they are not reproductions of original works in other media and in
a limited edition of no more that 15. If you not sure then contact me
to discuss it before hand. If prints are used; prints of inferior
quality (such as prints from typical home printer on cheap 20 pound
letter paper for example) will not be accepted and will be returned to
the artist.
The usual rule-of-thumb is to make something you're proud enough to
sign your name to and that you feel others will be proud to own.
- Please do not participate if you are
unwilling or unable to give it your best effort.
- International Participants: For
getting through Customs: Don't use plant material such as dried
grass, twigs, berries ....
On the package label list contents as "collages, for exhibition only"
and write a low value.
If a package is listed as being worth much more than $100 or so then
Customs gets very interested.
Any questions?
So that we can keep an eye out for your package,
let me know if you're going to take part.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make 7 collages, on 9" X 12" (actual
collage area may be smaller, but
the 9 X 12 outer size makes packaging easier and less prone to damage).
Send :
- your collages, write on the back of
each: your name, this inventory #: 1/2BD-NA-09-05 and contact info:
- your name & address on a sheet of
paper,
- email address(and the URL of your own
website if you've got one and want it listed)
- If you want to select which ones go to
the IMCAC that's fine.
- Additionally, of you only want to
donate a work to the museum and not participate in the exchange aspect
that is fine too.
- Please feel free to include a file on
yourself with materials about your work to keep on file at the Museum.
- Send $30.00USD plus return shipping
cost (specify your prefered method of return). Can be a check from a US
bank, [if you add 4% for the service charge you can use paypal, Visa,
Mastercard (name, number and expiration date)] state clearly what your
paying for.
- Dues paying members of ISACA
or the IMCAC
may take a $10.00 discount off the participation fee. Your
membership helps to care for and promote the collection. Additional
contributions always welcome!
to:
IMCAC
Baker's Half Dozen
Cecil Touchon
2 Nina Court
Ofallon, MO 63366
Your package to arrive before September 1st, 2005
A package of 6 collages by other artists will be sent to each
participating
artist by the end of October 2005.
The small legal part:
By taking part in this exchange artists are agreeing to allow one of
their
collages to become part of the permanent collection of the IMCAC.
Copyright of the work remains, as always, with the artist.
While the copyright is retained by the artist, your participation in
this
exchange means that you grant unlimited and free copyright usage to the
IMCAC
for the Museum's use for educational purposes, publications, publicity,
fundraising, etc. as the museum deems appropriate.
The IMCAC shall, at its discretion, keep or dispose of works according
to the
needs of the collection as it develops which may include selling some
works at
some point in the future to raise funds for the collection.
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