Bakers 1/2 Dozen North American Collage Exchange - International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction

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Bakers 1/2 Dozen Americas Collage Exchange
(an ISACA and IMCAC Exchange)

Deadline September 1st, 2006

Artists each make 7 collages, size 9" X 12" (inches), and send them to Fort Worth, Texas, to arrive before September 1st, 2006.
Packages that arrive too late for the exchange will be held for the next exchange.

THEME: open

One collage is retained to be part of the permanent collection of the IMCAC, while remaining permanently on exhibition on the Museum's Internet site and exhibited in an exhibition at the Museum in November '06 as well as considered for future traveling exhibitions and other projects.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:

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-09-06 and contact info.
On a sheet of paper your name & address , email address (and the URL of your own web site if you've got one and want it listed)
If you want to select which ones go to the IMCAC that's fine.
Additionally, if 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 folder on yourself with materials about your work to keep on file at the Museum.
Send $30.00 USD PLUS return shipping cost (specify your preferred method of return) OR include a self addressed stamped envelope large enough for the return of 6 works. 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 and needed!

to:
IMCAC
Cecil Touchon
6955 Pinon Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76116

Your package to arrive any time starting now until the deadline September 1st, 2006

A package of 6 collages by other artists will be sent to each participating artist by the end of October 2006.

FAQ

Quality / Curating / Acceptance?
All work by adults 18 and older is accepted. It is expected that you have been working in collage long enough to be proficient at it.
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 is intended to lead to higher standards and more inspired and satisfying work.
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 an 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

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 of the work donated 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.