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)
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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
info@collagemuseum.com
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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