Craft Intersect

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Monday, March 3, 2008

Richmond Art Gallery in Richmond, BC Canada, hosts an ATC project. The last one was in February. If you live in the Richmond area and want to participate in the RAG trade or find out about future meetings, contact atc_at_rag@hotmail.com.

From the RAG website...

"A little history…"
"The original concept was developed by Swiss artist m. vanci stirnemann, who wanted to make a catalogue to document his activities with other artists. Because the cost of printing a catalogue in hockey-card format was prohibitive, he decided in 1996 to produce 1,200 cards by hand. This led to the first exhibition of Artist Trading Cards in April 1997. During the show, visitors were encouraged to produce their own cards to trade with stirnemann and others at the closing reception. From then on, a Trading Session has taken place at INK.art&text on the last Saturday of every month...."

ATC vs. ACEO

"About Her I" Wrenay Gomez Charlton

Lately, I have been making a lot of art cards. I enjoy working on the smaller scale and pretty much anything goes, if you follow 1 key rule: art cards must be 2.5" x 3.5", horizontal or vertical is fine.

Art cards fall into 2 categories ATC or ACEO. An ATC (artist trading card) is for trading with other artists. It's a great way to meet other artists and amass an art collection for the cost of postage. You can also organize artist trades to meet other ATC enthusiasts in your area.

A good site to check out ATC groups is Flickr. The following sites may be of interest as well.

http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/atcnov03.html
http://www.atcquarterly.com/index.html

Now for the ACEO

ACEO's (art cards, editions and originals) are the same as ATC's with one key difference: they are for sale-not trade. This is quite the point of contention for some ACT artists, since the spirit of the ATC is to have art available to everyone, without placing monetary value on the card. However, there are many collectors who are not artists and the ACEO market provides them a way to expand their collections.

ACEO's can be found at craft fairs, etsy, ebay and http://www.art-cards.org/

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Just a little drawing I am working on....

Although the challenge is over, I am determined to keep making something each day-even if it's in progress. Sometimes I feel all my work is in progress.

Friday, February 29, 2008

The Wrap Up!

Broken Serif I-III, Film Stills, Wrenay Gomez Charlton.
More details here

Well, fellow makers, it has been non-stop fun to host this challenge. I enjoyed meeting so many great etsy artists. I hope this challenge helped to promote all of your hard efforts and great products.

Below are the final posts for the night! Congrats to you all on job well done!