Who doesn’t want to make a button, friends?
Montrealers! Pindemonuim 05 is on its way! Get out your markers and make that button I am going to want to trade with you. Do it.
Who doesn’t want another excuse to make a sketchbook?
Personally, I think it’s always a good idea to have at least one sketchbook on the go, as the little friends above will testify to. Over here, at the Art House Coop website, you can sign up for this pretty interesting looking project where they send you a sketchbook, which you then fill up or leave empty or smear honey in, and then send it back to them by mid-December-ish. Then your book, alongisde countless others, will go on a tour through the U.S. of A. They are even offering to bring them to your city if you can find a gallery to host the event. All in all, it seems like a really fun thing to do, and a great motivator for those who like this kind of thing but need external forces to help push their inertia button into the ”on” mode.
You DO have to pay for the sketchbook, but it’s a small fee considering the scope of the project. If you decided to head over to their website to take a look at this in further detail, consider sticking around, they’ve got a neat thing going on worth poking at.
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1) Don’t forget the deadline for applying to Art Pop 2009 is March 5th at midnight, please pass the word and this link around: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4140023/ArtPOP-Call-for-Submissions
2) This Thursday (the 26th), make sure you make sure you show up at the Art Matters Opening Party! The Art Pop squadron is curating part of the exhibition, but that’s not all: the venue (bain mathieu .ca) is crazy, you’ll be dancing all night in an empty pool and the bands/djs are insanely radical. + there will be surprises and props of the kind you’ll want to photograph all night long so you never forget. check the facebook event page for more info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=52365303557
3) Coming up on the 26th of March - An awesome art education project in collaboration with DHC/ART, articule and Art Pop, more details coming up soon!
Participants will be given a blank white album cover containing a record that has been removed from its original cover. They will be asked to listen to their album and create an album cover for the record they received. This project challenges participants to reflect on the visual representation of sound and music and find inspiration in a randomly selected record.
Of even more shameless promotion-type things….
That’s right kids and pappies and babies and ados and all in- betweeners alike: Art Pop, the visual arts segment of Pop Montreal, is asking all of you and your kind to apply for this year’s festival. The deadline is the 26th of February, so get cracking.
We’re going to be focusing on art that is immersive-based/heavily reliant on crystals. Well, the crystals part is less important, and perhaps not even really necessary, we just have a crush on them in that way you do when you reach for your spring jacket and realize that the unidentifiable lumpy thing in one of the pockets is in fact, a giant crystal, and you don’t know how it got there. One-night stands with crystals everywhere.
So forward this link out to the folks who would want to see it, and think about the possibilities for your fine selves as well. It’s going to be an awesome festival this year, and we’re very much looking forward to reading your amazing projects while slowly realizing that you, in fact, and you alone, are our very own human-crystal, shining through the night with a will that won’t give up.
Or something like that.
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