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Collage packets, included as part of the Fe-Mail Mail Art Workshop on Saturday, 9/15

Saturday Melanie spent part of the day taking old prints and various paste paper scraps and making them into fabulous collage packets. You should have seen the fun she was having curating these packets. It’s one of the best ways to “reuse” those prints that have a typo, are misaligned, or otherwise not worthy of sale. So she cut them up and anyone who takes the workshop on Saturday will get one as part of their $25 fee.

You know you want one, right? And seriously, Karen and Suzi are two of the most fabulously inspiring artists out there, come spend a morning with them making your own mail art.

10 am – 1 pm

Saturday, September 15th

AND, you get a collage packet from them too!

Download a form here Fe-Mail Flyer

and check out the workshop here.

BAK artists Gabrielle Senza, Irmari Nacht & Karen Arp Sandel have work in Information Revisited: The Encyclopedia Britannica Project, an exhibition opening this weekend at the Belskie Museum in Closter, NJ.

June 6 – June 27, 2010

Opening reception: Sunday, June 6 from 1-5pm

Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi Banks Baum

KAREN & SUZI’S DAILY-NESS OF ART WORKSHOP
With the Fe-Mail exhibition as a backdrop, Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi Banks Baum will teach The Daily-ness of Art, a daylong experiential workshop to inspire participants with easy tips about making collage art on a daily basis using everyday ideas and materials. No muss no fuss! The Workshop runs from 9:30 – 4:30 on Saturday April 10th. The workshop is open to 16 participants. The cost is $ 80, which includes $5 materials fee and the evening program.
Space is limited. Save your spot by pre-registering today via PayPal.

WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? MOVIE & DISCUSSION
The workshop culminates with an inspirational evening movie and discussion from 7:00 – 9:00 pm on Saturday April 10th of “Who Does She Think She Is?”, a moving documentary about women artists who navigate the balancing act between motherhood and artistic expression.

The screening, which is open to the community for a donation of $10 to support BAK, premieres “Who Does She Think She Is?” by Pamela Tanner Boll and Nancy Kennedy. The movie chronicles the lives of 5 working artists who are mothers. It explores the barriers to the creative process and how art ultimately transforms women’s lives and those around them. The discussion will be facilitated by three exhibiting artist-mothers Karen Arp-Sandel, Suzi Banks Baum and BAK founder, Gabrielle Senza. You can learn more about the movie here.

Space is limited. Save your spot for the movie & discussion by pre-purchasing your ticket today via PayPal.

SWAN Day/Support Women Artists Now Day is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists. It is an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of March (Women’s History Month) and the surrounding weeks. The official date of the Third International SWAN Day is Saturday, March 27, 2010, but it is celebrated throughout the months of March and April.

By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN Day helps people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives.

People celebrate this new holiday by participating in SWAN Day events and by making donations to their favorite women artists. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning. There were over 170 SWAN Day 2009 events in 12 countries.

Visit the SWAN Day website for more information.

Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi Banks Baum

GALLERY TALK
Join Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi Banks Baum on Wednesday March 31 at 7:00 pm for an intimate gallery talk about the quiet radical act of collage “snail mail” communication in the face of a fast paced electronic-tech world. The Fe-Mail artists will narrate a personal tour of the “front and back stories” encoded in 1,000 days of visual collaboration.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be available by donation.

~ ~ ~ and save April 10th for Celebrating SWAN Day with Karen, Suzi & Gabrielle ~ ~ ~

KAREN & SUZI’S DAILY-NESS OF ART WORKSHOP
With the Fe-Mail exhibition as a backdrop, Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi Banks Baum will teach The Daily-ness of Art, a daylong experiential workshop to inspire participants with easy tips about making collage art on a daily basis using everyday ideas and materials. No muss no fuss! The Workshop runs from 9:30 – 4:30 on Saturday April 10th. The workshop is open to 16 participants. The cost is $ 80, which includes $5 materials fee and the evening program.
Space is limited. Save your spot by pre-registering today via PayPal.

WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? MOVIE & DISCUSSION
The workshop culminates with an inspirational evening movie and discussion from 7:00 – 9:00 pm on Saturday April 10th of “Who Does She Think She Is?”, a moving documentary about women artists who navigate the balancing act between motherhood and artistic expression.

The screening, which is open to the community for a donation of $10 to support BAK, premieres “Who Does She Think She Is?” by Pamela Tanner Boll and Nancy Kennedy. The movie chronicles the lives of 5 working artists who are mothers. It explores the barriers to the creative process and how art ultimately transforms women’s lives and those around them. The discussion will be facilitated by three exhibiting artist-mothers Karen Arp-Sandel, Suzi Banks Baum and BAK founder, Gabrielle Senza. You can learn more about the movie here.

Space is limited. Save your spot for the movie & discussion by pre-purchasing your ticket today via PayPal.

SWAN Day/Support Women Artists Now Day is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists. It is an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of March (Women’s History Month) and the surrounding weeks. The official date of the Third International SWAN Day is Saturday, March 27, 2010, but it is celebrated throughout the months of March and April.

By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN Day helps people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives.

People celebrate this new holiday by participating in SWAN Day events and by making donations to their favorite women artists. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning. There were over 170 SWAN Day 2009 events in 12 countries.

Visit the SWAN Day website for more information.

Bubbling by Melanie Mowinski

Stone River (detail) by Jon Piasecki

The show features work by well-known international book artists as well as several local artists.  Included in the exhibition are books by Karen Arp-Sandel, Cynthia Atwood, Anne Fredericks, Susie Hardcastle, Brian Mikesell, Melanie Mowinski, Jon Piasecki, Senta Reis, Kate Schapira, Gabrielle Senza, as well as work by the internationally recognized book artists, David Sellars and Dirk Zimmer.  A collection of handmade books by artists in the Community Access to the Arts visual arts program are also on display.  The exhibition will run through September 2009.