ArtCards: A Mail Art Project
Curated by J. Kiku Langford
The Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry:
May 30 – June 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 30, 5 – 7pm
Ongoing ArtCard Workshop
The eighty-plus ArtCards in all media were created collaboratively by some fifty artists and writers.
This project was inspired by Langford’s desire to use art to create and deepen connections between people. Several artists were asked to create one or more ArtCards in any medium. After the ArtCards were collected, they were re-distributed among participating artists and several more writers. Each participant then wrote on one or more ArtCard. The writings vary from famous quotations to excerpts from dreams, to guitar TABS. The resulting combinations of words and art will be on display at AVA Gallery through June 28. After the exhibition, the ArtCards will be mailed out to the friends and loved ones of the ArtCards participants. By combining forces through visual media, words, and outreach, the hope is to touch many people through the powers of art and the human spirit.
During the exhibition, there will also be an ongoing ArtCard Workshop. The public is invited to enjoy the ArtCards on display and then exercise their creativity by making their own ArtCards to leave in the gallery or to take home to share with their friends and family.
J. Kiku Langford has a B. A. from Dartmouth College where she graduated in 2006. At Dartmouth she helped to found NovArt, a student exhibition space in the back of Berry Library. She was also the director of AREA, the student exhibition space at the Top of the Hop, for two years. In October 2005, she spent a month in residency painting at the Vermont Studio Center. She has spent most of her time in the Upper Valley striving to bring art into the community by working in public spaces and encouraging dialogue between artists and viewers.
