Excerpt by Sergui

Second Gala Reception

The first Artists' Reception and Barbie Ball was such an enormous success that we are having another party!!!!

What: The Second Gala Reception & Barbie Ball:
When: The Second Thursday - August 9th 2007 from 5:30 to 9:30 PM
Where: AgeSong Gallery 580 Hayes St.

Featuring Live performance art by:
The Artist Group San Francisco (TAGsf) which is comprised of world class dancers, emerging choreographers, filmmakers, visual artist and musicians. Our goal is to use the 21st century culture/technology to propel dance forward, still using classical techniques as our foundation.
and Deige and Company will be there with the living interactive boxes.
WHERE: The second Party will take place only at AgeSong Gallery: 580 Hayes St. at Laguna, San Francisco, CA 94102
WHAT ELSE:
Come dressed as your favorite Barbie or Ken and meet the artists who are helping to save the environment. Barbie films to be screened will include “The Tribe” by Tiffany Shlain, “Barbie Nation” the collectors edition by Susan Stern with footage of some of the work entered into Altered Barbie 2005 and “How to Make an Altered Barbie” Michel Fraser's film about Alie Buckner, and this year's all new "Excerpt" by Lupse Sergiu from Romania !!!!

Thank you very much for supporting this event. It’s going to be a fabulous experience! The first reception was such a success we are having another!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Sponsers and Artists on the website!

I've been buzzing along with the website. I've put all our wonderful Sponsors on the site and I've started adding Artists, contact information, artists statements and thumbnails of their work.

I've tightened up some design matters, and added our first item for sale - the wonderful Book of the Show.

I've added more information about the Artists' Reception, the Barbie Ball, the How to alter Barbie Workshops, as well as more details about the Galleries and Chatterbox, our producer! so be sure to check it out!!
We also now have a page that leads to all our downloads such as the E-vite, the Press Release and eventually all the forms the artists will need to drop off with their work!
I still have lots of plans, in addition to adding the rest of the artists, I hope to upload a piece of a video that's been submitted

The Book has arrived!

On Friday I picked up The Book from the printer.
It is Beautiful!
The Book highlights the Art from the early submitters and shows the incredible variety in the art for this year's show. Melissa Chow's work opens The Book off with a bang. Her images are so compelling. About this work she says:
"In this year’s green-themed altered Barbie, I am focussing on her wasteful and all-consuming nature. Ignoring the soaring prices of gasoline and oil, she stays true to everything she represents by inhaling the fumes instead of conserving and/or finding alternative sources of fun...what else would you expect of Barbie?"
Want to read more? BUY The BOOK and reserve your copy at the Altered Barbie website!

workshops comming up in august

there is more detailed info is available at alteredBarbie.com about the workshops coming up in August.

Here is a description of what the workshop will be:

In conjunction with the 5th Altered Barbie Show: Re-cycle and Re-use, local Hot Glue Expert, Charlotte Davis, will lead workshops @ "Barbie and Beyond". She will provide step by step instruction on how to alter a Barbie or Ken, make an environment, or decorate a Barbie object.

We will add or remove limbs; we will embellish, we will make fantastic creatures or beautiful icons. This is a chance to work on your relationship with Barbie, or just have a good time.

Charlotte Davis is an artist who has worked in many mediums*, primarily art jewelry and sculpture. She was a co-founder of The Soft Touch, a Haight Ashbury cooperative gallery which operated for more than 20 years.

About 10 years ago, a fellow artist showed her the fun of using a hot glue gun, found objects, and embellishments to make wild Easter Eggs and Xmas ornaments. This year, she was invited to transfer this skill into Altering Barbies.
She is looking forward to this new venue and what will emerge.

We will be signing people up online. once i get the kincks worked out with paypal shopping carts, we will be able to sign up for the Saturday workshops (August 4th and 11th) online and the Sunday (Aug 5th and 12th) workshops will be handled by SCRAP – Scroungers’ Center For Reusable Art Parts. In either case Charlotte Davis is a Fantastic teacher so don't miss this fantastic opportunity.


All workshops will be at AgeSong Gallery, 580 Hayes St. @ Laguna, San Francisco, Ca.
Sunday workshops sponsored by: SCRAP - Scroungers' Center For Reusable Art Parts

contact scrap@scrap-sf.org (415) 647-1746 Tues. thru Sat. 9am-5pm.

buy the book online!

I wsas going to proudly announce that the paypal shopping cart is up and running at the alteredbarbie.com site but humm, somethings up. anyway you can see the book cover and click on the buy online link and see if it's working!

well i set up a paypal shopping cart and it was there just a minute ago! i wonder if the paypal shopping cart was deleted when i made a trial purchase????

maybe i need quantities???? if anyone out there knows how to do this paypal shopping cart i wold love some hints!

New Sponsors for Altered Barbie show!

We have so many sponsors now! first of course is ChatterBox who is producing the show. Then There's AgeSong and Market Street Gallery who are providing the gallery spaces. Then there's daydreaming arts who provides me - tireless intern and general assistant to Jill of Chatterbox! PNN -Personal News Network is providing the wonderful interactive Altered Barbie news site and LIVE coverage the night of the Reception and Barbie Ball. ClubCard Printing is providing the printing for the postcards. I think they are also printing the Book. (Yes we are having a Book for the show this year!!) Little Black Dress Wines is donating wine for the opening and Barbie Ball! (hurray!!) SCRAP Scroungers’ Center For Reusable Art Parts is helping with the Altered Barbie Workshops and providing recycled art materials. The San Francisco Bay Guardian is providing print coverage for the show, and Best to be Green is Sponsor us because the show is so Green this year Recycling all those Barbies you know!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ChatterBox International presents the 5th Annual Altered Barbie Show, 2007!!
Out of the Box: Reclaiming and Recycling Barbie into eco-friendly Art. 75 artists and vendors
showcase their visions and creations for saving the planet with a wide range of Barbie &
Ken art and re-usable products that includes mixed-media, painting, printmaking,
photography, quilts, & 3D Barbies, with video, performance and film.
Where: Two Gallery Venues
Age Song: 580 Hayes St. at Laguna, San Francisco, CA 94102
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 12-7, Sunday 1-5pm 415.431.8143.
Market Street Gallery, 1554 Market Street (between Van Ness &
Franklin), San Francisco, CA 94102
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 12-6pm Sat & Sun by appt.
When: August 1st - August 19th at AgeSong Gallery & Market Street Gallery
BARBIE BALL & ARTISTS RECEPTION at Age Song 580 Hayes St. on Thursday,
August 2, 2007 from 5:30 PM to midnight.
Come dressed as your favorite Barbie or Ken and meet the artists and vendors who
are helping to save the environment.
! The evening will be covered live by PNN and will include live performances by
various artists, bands and DJ’s as well as a demonstration by Allie Buckner
the renowned author of the “How to Make an Altered Barbie” and “Barbie
Killer” comics.
! Barbie films to be screened will include “The Tribe” by Tiffany Shlain, “Barbie
Nation” by Susan Stern and “How to Make an Altered Barbie” by Michel
Fraser.
Artists Reception at Market Street Gallery Thursday, August 2, 2007 from 5:30
PM to 9PM.
Can’t make it to the Barbie Ball/Artists Reception? Attend a workshop by hot
glue expert Charlotte Davis. Alter and recycle your own Barbie, build an environment
or embellish found items, with material donated by SCRAP – Scroungers’ Center For
Reusable Art Parts.
Aug. 5 & 12 at 580 Hayes St. Gallery @ Laguna
To sign up for classes, please contact SCRAP – Scroungers’ Center For Reusable
Art Parts: at: scrap@scrap-sf.org (415) 647-1746 Tues. thru Sat. 9am-5pm.
Julie Andersen and CHATTERBOX INT’L have been hosting the Altered Barbie
shows since 2003. The organization is dedicated to creating multidimensional,
multiplatform exhibitions that bring emerging and established artists of all ages and
all cultural backgrounds together.
AgeSong Senior Communities: believes in honoring our seniors with reverence and
has received accolades and awards from The American Society on Aging Business
and Aging.
Market St. Gallery specializes in exhibiting visual art by emerging and mid-career
artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Hayes @ Laguna Gallery

The word is out!!!
The Hayes @ Laguna Gallery will be hosting the 2007 Altered Barbie show along with Market Street Gallery. The Hayes @ Laguna Gallery is also know as the Hayes Valley Market Gallery because it used to be a Grocery Store!

It can be confusing because Market Street Gallery is at the corner of Hayes and Market.

It helps to remember that Market Street Gallery is at 1554 Market Street
while Hayes @ Laguna although also know as Hayes Valley Market is at 580 Hayes!!!

o i'm sorry that just confused you more didn't it???

Spreading the word: Call for artist's on Frank Bette Buzz

We just keep Spreading the word!
The Call for Artist's on Frank Bette Buzz a new Blog for members of Frank Bette Center for the Arts. I've recently become involved at FBCA as an active exhibiting member and there new membership coordinator. Part of taking care of the members is showing them opportunities in the larger community. so i told them about us! I hope this brings out some first time exhibitors!

This is their June show:

June 2007 – "Peaches & Cream"
Receiving artwork – Sunday, May 27, 10:30–5:00pm
Gala Opening – June 1, Friday, 7-9
Everything peaches & everything cream. And beautiful peaches & cream skin! Milk, cheese, all dairy products, cows, peel, babies' butts, peach fuzz, flesh complexions, skin, pits, curds & whey, soft tissue, pelt, furry, coat, membrane, supple, smoothness, silky, delicate, velvety, sensitive, tender, succulent, youth, inexperience, gentle, warmth.

workshops coming iny July and August!!!

“Barbie and Beyond Workshops” offered July 21, 28, August 4 & August 11: To alter and re-use Barbies incorporating recycled materials donated by S.C.R.A.P. and Charlotte Davis that will create Barbie Art and environments such as dioramas, furniture and beyond. Stay tuned for details!!!!!

ways in which we show our pain

from 2007 Jennifer Scaff King, entitled "New Years Eve"
this image really makes me want to cry. somehow it's right that barbie should be purging because her beauty standard helps send women over the edge to bingeing and purging and other self injurious behavior. the details of chocolates and so on in the room are really telling of the artist's intimacy with the subject.

heavy metal Kens

follow the link for an incredible video - heavy metal KENS singing ace of spades!!! http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2006/03/ace_of_spades_15mb.mov

the much improved and growing up nicely thank you version of the altered barbie website is Up

We are announcing that the much improved and growing up nicely thank you version of the altered barbie website is Up and Ready. It links here and to the interactive site. It has information on the show, the opening and the barbie ball. it has links to the galleries involved and some of the sponsors who are coming on board. There's a page that discusses some of the legal issues and an about us page that still needs filling out. You can read about the call to artists and download the prospectus for this year. Once we start accepting artists for the show, their info will be posted too. And there's still more to come!

interactive altered barbie site is up and ready for your comments!

the interactive site is up and ready to interact! like a blog anyone can add a comment to a post that's there. If you contact us we may give you a super secret email address so you can post directly to the site! it's fun and you can even post photos that way. If you have video or audio or anything else multimedia to share contact us and likely the PNN site can handle it! check it out now!

Where to get barbies?

Many artists are looking for Barbies and parts. The places I know to purchase used barbies on the cheap are thrift shops and garage sales. I think garage sales are great for accessories as well.

The next places to look is online at sites such as e-bay and Craig's list . These may be more expensive than thrift shops and garage sales due to shipping, etc.

Finally, to decorate and add wonderful re-used materials to your piece of art please check out SCRAP. SCRAP is a great resource for materials to decorate your barbie, on the cheap and is located on Toland St. in the bay Bayside area of San Francisco.

If you have any other resources please share.

Thanks, Julie Jill Andersen of ChatterBox

Altered Barbie Blog goes live!

time to go live with the Altered Barbie Show of 2007!!!
it's the fifth annual show here in San Francisco and getting bigger every year!!!!! this year there will be two galleries hosting the art work, Market Street Gallery and Red Ink Gallery. there will be a Barbie Ball, with discounts for tickets to those in costume. the excitement is only now starting to build as we send out the call for artists and secure promoters and sponsors. I've added julie as an author to see how hard it is for her to come here and add her own posts.