Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Help us make an Instructomentary; ATC Project; Spring Title!

HELLO!

Sorry about the confusion of the meeting date in last week's newsletter. Sometimes when the newsletter format is copied from week to week, the most obvious details are forgotten. :)

We have several things planned for upcoming meetings and a project to take place outside of the weekly meetings. Read on!

SPRING TITLE & POSTER CONTEST!

Well, Untitled turns 18 this year and the Spring show will be a celebration. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions, votes, and plenty of good laughs at last week's meeting - Our Spring Show title is
"BARELY LEGAL".
POSTER CONTEST ON THE 21st. See more info below.

PHOTOS

Be sure to post your Abominable photos to our Flickr group! Still waiting on photos from those numerous cameras we saw at the show.
Go here:
http://flickr.com/groups/untitlednashville
Also, Ray & Wendy's Gallery is available for viewing:
http://raywen.org/untitled/121908

ATC SWAP THIS WEEK

Artist Trading Cards. This is a great way to swap art with other artists. We will be bringing and creating ATCs this week. Interested? Read below...

INSTRUCTOMENTARY

Huh? Call it whatever you want, but we are planning a skit based instruction video for showing how to make your work "Ready To Hang".
Yes, that very important, but seemingly dreadful task that all artists must learn will be demystified in an informative, but hopefully entertaining video to be posted all over the internets.

Wanna write for it, help shoot it, star in it? Come to the meeting this week to share your ideas, skills, and help.
Have your sketch in hand at the meeting. (or email it to us before Wed. afternoon)

Shooting is tentatively planned for Jan 16 & 17. This will be confirmed this week.

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MEETING THIS WEEK!

Little Hamilton / Firebrand
1318 Little Hamilton Ave.
Nashville, TN 37203

MAP LINK
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 @ 7:30 pm

GETTING THERE
Little Hamilton is a little street very near 4th Ave. S.
The location is in a mixed residential / industrial neighborhood. The building has the address numbers painted on the side, a door with the Firebrand logo, and an iron studio next door.
If you are driving down 4th ave s, turn right onto Humphreys and then a very immediate left onto Little Hamilton. Building will be on the left near the end of the street. There will likely be a small school bus parked in front of the building.

PARKING
on the street. or there is a parking lot on the side of the building (an automotive company on the corner)


TOPICS

  • Spring Title / Poster Contest Details
  • Barely Legal Leaders
  • Board Interest Meeting - Jan 20
  • Instructomentary Planning
  • ATC Swap

Have an extra folding chair? You may want to bring it just in case.

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2009 CALENDAR

View the 2009 Calendar online:
http://www.untitlednashville.org/calendar.htm
(under construction)

2009 Show Schedule

Spring show: Barely Legal: March 13
Summer show:
June 12
GLOW show: July 24 @ Limelight
Fall show:
September 18
Winter show:
December 18



SPRING SHOW DATES & DEADLINES

POSTER CONTEST: JAN 21
PRESS IMAGES DEADLINE:
FEB 12
REGISTRATION BEGINS: FEB 16- online
PAY:
$15 - 3 ways to pay:
Meeting - March 4
Mail - postmark by March 6
Online PayPal - March 8

REGISTER:
March 8 - midnight - online
DROP-OFF:
March 11; 6-7:30pm
INSTALLATION:
March 12; 9am - 7 pm
SHOW:
March 13; 6-10pm
CLEAN-UP:
March 14; 10am - 1pm
(times & days subject to change)

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ATC - Artist Trading Cards!


At this week's meeting we will be having a little art swap (optional). We usually do this during the holidays, but since our scheduling was thrown off at the end of last year, we will do the swap now. If you like it, we can do it even more often.

Plan to bring:

  • Art-making tools (pens, pencil, markers, etc)
  • Paper in the form of ATC (2.5 x 3.5 inches). You can actually buy these pre-cut at an art supply store.
  • Finished ATCs (optional)

We will have some of these things available at the meeting.

Below is a little bit about the ATC.

ATC, or Artist Trading Card
"Artist Trading Cards are individual art miniatures which pass hand to hand. Artist Trading Cards are typically made on a base of card stock. However, ATCs have been created on metal, stiffened fabric, plastic, clay, glass, balsa wood, leather, embroidery canvas, acetate, heavy watercolor paper, and many other materials. The art on the cards can be done in any media: textile arts, pencil, watercolor, acrylic, oil, collage, scratch board, mixed media, assemblage, digital art, calligraphy, beadwork, rubber stamps, carved soft block stamps, pen and ink, colored pencil, airbrush, pastels, and many others - anything artists use. The only standard requirement for an ATC is that its height and width measurements be 2.5" x 3.5" (64 x 89 mm), either vertical (portrait) or horizontal (landscape) orientation. The sky is the limit for every other aspect of the art."

LINK TO MORE INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist_trading_cards

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POSTER CONTEST


JANUARY 21 @ 7:30pm

Bring your poster designs for BARELY LEGAL to the January 21st Meeting.

Get the details for designing an Untitled poster here:
http://www.untitlednashville.org/poster.htm

Looking forward to seeing what you create!!!

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ARTLeads


VISIT THE ARTLeads BLOG:
http://artleads.blogspot.com

NEW POSTS:

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Thank you for being a part of Untitled!

Feel free to contact us with any questions!


Untitled Artists Group
info@untitlednashville.org
www.untitlednashville.org
myspace.com/untitlednashville
flickr.com/groups/untitlednashville

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