10th Baker's Dozen International Collage Exchange now online

10th Baker's Dozen International Collage Exchange now online

Please see the IMCAC’s latest exchange here: http://collagemuseum.com/Bakers/bakers10/index.html

Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Collage Works by Joseph Christy

I have selected the work of Joseph Christy as the most notable suite of works submitted for the 10th Baker's Dozen International Collage Exchange. My choice was based on a number of different considerations. Among them were, which group of works fulfilled the greatest number of attributes that distinguish great collage art.

I will lay out what I consider some of those attributes…. More here: http://collagemuseum.com/christy/index.html

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The next Baker’s Dozen exchange (#11) deadline is October 21 2007:

http://collagemuseum.com/international-collage-exchange/international-collage-exchange-11.html

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Still looking for some patrons for framing some of the better works from the Museum’s growing collection:

http://collagemuseum.com/fundraiser/index.html . Your generosity is much needed and appreciated.

Cecil Touchon

MY ART USED IN A TV COMMERCIAL FOR "GAY, STRAIGHT OR TAKEN"

Above the original collage Fusion Series #1512 from 1999

above is logo for a new TV show
below is a shot of my diningroom at Casa del Artista in Cuernavaca, Mexico

I was watching TV this evening and for a brief moment during a commercial for a new show called GAY, STRAIGHT OR TAKEN? on TBS or The Lifetime Channel. I saw what looked like one of my paintings in the background. I have TIVO so was able to rewind. Sure enough, someone has used my image and remade it into a derivative work to fit the stageset they were going for. I am not sure what to make of it. Is that copyright infringement?

Don't get me wrong, I am flattered but I would sure like to know how my design became the inspiration for the painting on the show's set. Since it is based on my image it would have been nice if I were consulted, notified, paid a copyright or given credit.

I'm a nice guy and I like to see my images in mass media. After all I am a Massurrealist.
My images have been used in posh hotel rooms from New York City to Japan and as book and CD covers. I encourage it. I'll work out a do-able deal with anybody that want's to use my images. So I don't want them to cease and desist. I like it. But some sort of public reference to me would be nice from whoever placed that image out there. I mean, after all, it must be a well meaning fan and maybe even a collector of my art that got that image in there and I appriciate it. But still, it makes me a little uneasy at least until I hear from somebody in the know about how that happened.

I know how it is. As a collage artist I use pre-existing materials all of the time. Images are everywhere and once you have an image, if you didn't note the source when you collected it, your not likely to be able to figure out where it came from at the time you want to use it. The same thing happens in music all the time.

also my painting above


Below a derivative work based on my painting from the TV commercial for "Gay, Straight or Taken?".

Below my painting in an exhibition at the New Gallery in Houston, Texas in 2003

Lois Parks DeCastro Workshops

Hello Artists.
It's a new year, and I'm excited to announce two brand new winter
workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area to help kickstart your
creative year. (1) Top Ten Texturing Techniques for Mixed Media Art
and (2) Altered Photos. I'll be teaching my favorite tips and tricks
and the best of the best techniques to use in your own way in mixed
media art, collage and altered art. Here's what's happening in
January and February. Hope to meet some of you there. For more
information visit www.afternoonarts.com, or email
Lois@afternoonarts.com

Top Ten Texturing Techniques for Mixed Media Art:
Two Sundays - January 14 and January 21, 2007; 10 am - 3 pm; Pacific
Art League; 668 Ramona Street; Palo Alto CA; 650 321-3891 REGISTER ON LINE: WWW.PACIFICARTLEAGUE.ORG/CLASSES/CLASSES.HTML

SoulCollage I:
Saturday, January 27; 10 am - 1 pm; Drake High School; 1327 Sir
Francis Drake Blvd;
San Anselmo CA; REGISTER ON LINE: WWW.MARINLEARN.COM

Altered Photographs:
Saturday, February 3; 1 pm – 4 pm; Pacific Art League; 668 Ramona
Street; Palo Alto CA; 650 321-3891
REGISTER ON LINE: WWW.PACIFICARTLEAGUE.ORG/CLASSES/CLASSES.HTML

SoulCollage I:
Sunday, February 11; 10 am – 1 pm; Pacific Art League; 668 Ramona
Street; Palo Alto CA; 650 321-3891
REGISTER ON LINE: WWW.PACIFICARTLEAGUE.ORG/CLASSES/CLASSES.HTML

SoulCollage I:
Two Sundays – February 25 and March 4; 1 pm - 4 pm; Jewish Community
Center San Francisco; 3200 California Street; San Francisco CA 94118;
415 292-1200; REGISTER ON LINE: WWW.JCCSF.ORG

Caroline Waite

Caroline Waite " Bird Watching" Mixed Media Collage
Collection of the IMCAC (Baker's Dozen Exchange # 8)

Combining collage, assemblage and sewing, Waite creates fasinating collage works that are at once surrealistic and scientific in feel. The surrealistic echo comes from a resemblance to Joseph Cornell's boxes and collages that employ containment style organization and birds. The scientific element, which really permiates much surrealist art, seems to be in the feeling of collecting things into types and sorts. In fact, collecting and organizing seems to be a key element in Waite's collage work. You can visit Caroline Waite's website at: http://carolinewaite.com/

Sifting through the Collection

Today I spent some time looking through collages from the Collage Museum's collection. Partly I am looking for the collages that will be sellected as the flagship collection - the best 50-100 collages to be framed up and offered for traveling exhibitions. I am also on the look out for collages that will be good examples of college for the book I am working on that will be a studio companion for collage artists. It is interesting to me how I can look at several hundred collages and instantly pick out the ones that I think are the best for framing or for use as illustrations for a book.

I am going to anylize why I think this or that collage is better than others of a similar type and that will be part of the way the book will develop.

Matthew Rose - Spelling With Scissors, Friday 10 November Collage Exhibition

Matthew Rose has an exhibition up in Denver, Colorado. through Dec 13th 06

NOTE FROM MATT
If anyone is out in Denver, Colorado please drop by for a drink and a chat at
the opening of my exhibition, Spelling With Scissors, Friday 10 November.

The entire gallery will be filled with work in a wall to wall, floor to ceiling
show of my personal insanity. Please come and experience it. Drinks for all!

It's at Capsule Gallery, 554 Santa Fe Drive. Right in the heart of Denver's art
district.

I've posted a downloadable PR (pdf) with all relevant details and probably more
than necessary, on my website here:

http://homepage.mac.com/mistahcoughdrop/FileSharing26.html

Also posted about 150 images from the show of nearly 1000 works here:

http://homepage.mac.com/mistahcoughdrop/PhotoAlbum13.html

The movie of the opening

Welcome to the International Collage Museum

I am not very good at keeping a constant vigil of communication going on. I am usually too busy working. But I think it is a good idea to have the director's voice for the museum. I will be using the forum to discuss works from the Museum's collection and otherwise discuss topics related to the area of collage and the museum.