Announcing the COVER ARTISTS and the PRE-SALE!

Pre-sale for Create. Collect. Trade. began yesterday (3/15) with copies already sold!

For a limited time, ordering your pre-sale copy gives you a discounted price! All proceeds from Create. Collect. Trade. go towards the purchase of student copies of the book.

There are six student ATCs featured on the cover (grades 3-5)... can you guess which ones those are???

WIN A COPY OF CREATE. COLLECT. TRADE.!!!!

Want your own FREE copy of Create. Collect. Trade.?

This project is so important to the artists and students involved that we want the word to spread. There is already a waiting list for artists to be featured in the next edition.

Here is how to win...

1. Comment on this blog entry. I want to see what you think of this amazing project!

2. Post a link to the listing of the pre-sale book and the Official Book Blog in your own blog.

1 Entry for posting links in your blog.

3 Entries for Blogging about this book/project, image, etc... in your blog.

3. Post that link in the Official Book Blog as well or e-mail me at art2theextreme@yahoo.com and let me know. You will also be linked to this blog for more exposure!

 Winner will be announced April 1, 2008 on the Official Book Blog.

Please help spread the word about the book. The students and artists featured are AMAZING and are so excited and proud of themselves. 

Useful Links:

Etsy Listing for Create. Collect. Trade.

Donate a copy of the book to a student or make a $5.00 donation!

Pay-pal links are at the right-hand column of the home page of this blog!

Original Etsy Thread for this project

Trade your own ATC and ACEO cards with students!

ACEO Magazine (We were recently featured in their newsletter!)

Donate to Purchasing Copies of Create. Collect. Trade. for Student Artists

Since starting this project, several have asked me about donating money or a whole book for student artists to receive a free copy. Thanks to the creative minds of Juniper44 and several others working on this project, this option is now avaliable for those interested.

In the right column, there are two PayPal buttons. 

One is to donate $5.00 towards purchasing copies of Create. Collect. Trade. for student artists.

The other is to donate $23.00, which will provide 1 student a free copy of Create. Collect. Trade.

-If you chose this option, I will be making donor labels for the inside cover of the books. This label will have your name, location, and/or a brief statement, quote, comment to artists (whatever you feel comfortable with). 

This is optional, but if you choose to do this, write what you would like it to say in the "message" area of the PayPal checkout.

I would love your feedback about these options.  

Please feel free to comment back to this post or contact me at art2theextreme@yahoo.com.

Free Promotional Opportunity for ACEO and ATC Artists...

Hello everyone!

I am creating a book called "Create. Collect. Trade. A Collection of Artist Trading Cards for Artists and Students."

I am looking for ACEO and ATC Artists to feature in the book. Since this is the first volume, I am looking for 5-7 artists willing to donate and image or two for a "mock copy" of the cover. In exchange, I will be giving one page of free promotion in the book with site links, text, and images of ACEOs/ATCs for those that give me permission to use the photo for the mock cover. 

This past month, I recently posted this thread about ACEO artists donating a card or two to help teach my 3-5th graders about ATCs. The response so far has been HUGE! I have been so impressed by these artists and the response from the art community that this project has snowballed into a even larger one beyond my imagination. I will be receiving media coverage of this project at my school during the main part of the project in the spring that will include a ATC Family Art Night where students and families will gather together to view artworks of ACEO and ATC artists (you) and create/trade ATCs of their own.

Art within the community and reaching out to students and families is a HUGE opportunity for any artist to be a part of.  I hope that in reading this blog, you become inspired to help out to  either by simply spreading the word of this project, donating an  ATC/ACEO, or become part of the book.

WHERE I SEE THE PROJECT IN THE COMING MONTHS AND YEAR...

I will be attending a statewide and hopefully national Art Educator COnvention and Conference in the Fall of 2008 and Spring of 2009. My goal is to present this project and book with the eventual goal of turning this into a national contest for visual art students. I cannot tell you what a huge promotional tool this would be for an artist as well!.

Please follow these links for contacting myself and more information!

ETSY THREAD ABOUT THE BOOK

ETSY THREAD ABOUT THE ATC TRADING EXPERIENCE BETWEEN ARTISTS AND STUDENTS

MY ETSY SHOP

MY BLOG

My e-mail: art2theextreme@yahoo.com