The Foster Collective

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Have Substantial Student Loan Debt?

Student Loan Debt Art Project by the Foster Collective's Lead Organizer, Angela Watters.

Call for Participation:

I'm looking for people with significant student loan debt from art related college or university programs to mail or email me the amount of debt along with their name, the program attended, what subject was studied and the degree (if any) obtained from the institution. Please don't send sensitive information like social security numbers or birth dates. This information will be collaged on to the outside of a dollhouse I bought for $5 at a flea market. The dollhouse will be exhibited and for sale for the amount of our collective student loan debt. The call for participation will continue for a year or until we reach the highest selling work by a living artist, which is (depending on who you believe) either Damien Hirst's For the Love of God or Jasper Johns' False Start. I will need your real name for administrative purposes, but if you wish to remain anonymous or use a pseudonym for the public viewing just let me know. Creativity is encouraged, but unnecessary. If you wish to contribute artwork to be shown with the project or write something about your crushing debt problem, please let me know. I've not yet decided on a name for the project, but am thinking The Poor House or The ? Million Dollar Home.

Address:

Angela Watters

1809 West Main Street

#103

Carbondale, IL 62901

Email: info (at) angelawatters.com

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Visual Response to the Gulf Oil Disaster at CUSN

Visual Response to Gulf Oil Disaster – A Traveling Mail Art Exhibit

at California State University Northridge Manzanita Hall Gallery

In July of 2010 Chicago’s Foster Collective posted an online call for entries challenging artists to create art work in response to the April 2010 oil spill that devastated the Gulf region. Responses poured in from across the United States. The traveling exhibit of art work that combines gas station paper towels with traditional and improvised art materials is on a multi-city tour with stops in Chicago and Huntsville Alabama and other cities. This fall Visual Response to Gulf Oil Disaster comes to Los Angeles hosted by the California State University Northridge Public Art Club. More than a year after the Gulf Oil Disaster, as people of the Gulf region struggle to restore their lives, CSUN students add their voices to a lively visual debate on the politics of oil and preserving the environment. The exhibit at the CSUN Art Gallery’s Manzanita Hall Annex Gallery runs from October 17 through December 31. An artist’s reception will be held on December 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.