Paper Extravaganza - Society6

Artist Charles Clary aka Paper Extravaganza creates painfully detailed paper installations from hand cut paper. No lasers here, check it out

NONE OF THE ABOVE Assembling, Collaborating and Publishing in the Eternal Network

"Assembling" represents the ultimate in democratic art and was an outgrowth of the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and '70s. Groups of artists -- often those active in the mail art community -- collaborated to produce compilations of work void of editorial oversight. This exhibition celebrates those independent voices through an historical overview of past publications and contemporary examples. Work on display will be from a variety of public and private collections, curated by 2007 Winter Book co-editor Tom Cassidy and MCBA Artistic Director Jeff Rathermel. A series of Assemblings will be produced by MCBA allowing visitors to see the process in action.

I have sent work for the Assembling which are basically digital printing over pages from magazines. I used this black and white image of spores and printed it over mostly pages of portraits. The image varies in intensity depending on the magazine image, but these have a nice tattoo like effect. I am a fan of John Cage and basically use some of his chance technique in creating these images. I go through various magazines taking out pages and picking a side of the page to print and then print them, without actually trying to pre-determine the look. The printed image and one of my favorite images are above. More scanned images can be seen at my Flickr account. Hope you like them.

Yarnbombing; graffiti knitters

WOW check out this bus, knitters graffiti, love it.

YKnot along the Yellow Brick Road

YKnot along the Yellow Brick Road
Originally uploaded by 84rms

Piece done for collaborative work with 4 other knotters. Will post other objects as they are finished.

Petition to stop the sale of Arrowmont property

Hello everyone- The reason I am writIng is because of a place called Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. This place is an amazing artist community. This place is located in the heart of Gatlinburg, tn. The land that arrowmont has existed on for almost 100 years is owned by Pi Beta Phi sorority. The Pi Phi's have been approached by a buyer for the land. This buy wants to build a water park on that land. This could be the end of Arrowmont. Below is a link to a petition that was started to help save Arrowmont. Please let your voice be heard and show your support for the school. There are many unknowns at the moment and we don't have a lot of answer yet but your voice is very important to the future of the school. Please send this message to everyone you know as we are trying to gather as many signatures as possible before Friday the 22nd. Thank you! The petition only takes a moment and is free. I truly appreciate all you- thank you

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savearrowmont


link to arrowmont's website: http://arrowmont.org/

Recycled Gas Station

The goal of the International Fiber Collaborative is to provide an opportunity for people who enjoy working with fiber arts, whether professional artists, hobbyists or students, to come together from all over the world to express their concern about the worlds extreme dependency on oil. This year's project is called the World Reclamation Art Project (W.R.A.P.). Participants have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3 foot square fiber panels that expresses each participants concern about this topic. Simply by designing and creating these panels and participating in this project they are, in the larger picture, expressing their concern about this important subject to the rest of the world. All the panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station in central New York State.

BASKETS: NO BOUNDARIES, Jane Sauer Gallery

The title of the show, Baskets: No Boundaries, suggests the theme of freedom from rules and constraints, from the limits imposed by traditions and expectations. Over recent decades, basket makers have been expanding the ancient traditions they both honor and now transcend to create their own personal expressions. The 19 artists chosen for this show convey cross-cultural concepts about the contemporary basket movement. Traditional influences represented include Haida, Nantucket, Hispanic, Ojibwa, and Japanese. Tradition and innovation are entwined in all of the baskets.

Some really wonderful works in this show. My favorites are

Dawn Walden,

Jan Hopkins,

JoAnne Russo

but there are lots of great works in this show. Don't miss checking out this site.