A Robot Christmas - Freeport ME - contest

Thank you everyone for voting so far. You have put Azure Cafe and me back on top after a short visit to third place yesterday afternoon. Now please keep on helping spread the word! This goes until the 10th and I need all the votes I can get from now until then. It's an up and down system so and every vote counts and I will keep you posted on the contest over the weekend. Again thank you for your support and I wish you and your family the best for the holidays!

please vote for Azure Cafe at

www.sparklecelebration.com

and if you have voted please pass the word on.

all sculptures are made by Sebastian Meade

and are mostly reused found objects.

(and a very Doctor Who Christmas)

Snail Mail, New Studio/Office and so much more from this summer and into the future...

Hello!

Quick reminder for the next Snail Mail Event! - Bring Back the Stamp!

Here's all the info! Including a link to the Facebook invitation.

Snail Mail Event! Bring Back the Stamp! September 3rd 2014

On June 1st 2011 this was on going multi place event started! Lets try and make it a movement this year!

Thank you every one for taking part in the past Snail Mail Event! - Bring Back the Stamp! More information about this even below.

Everyone likes to get a letter! Suggested Theme this time is (drum roll!) "Flags!" Any kind of Flag will do.

Other wise here's the idea. On the day of the event send one, two, three or as many people you know a postcard, letter or something in the mail. We get enough junk mail. Send mail to many people! Invite your friends and family and anyone you know to take part in the event! Everyone is invited!

This is officially a Acts of Random Art Event! And please if you haven't joined A.o.R.A. join in at http://www.facebook.com/actsofrandomart

And if you want to mail to Acts of Random Art send to

Acts of Random Art
PO Box 182
Freeport ME
04032

Now on top of the up coming Snail Mail Event! Acts of Random Art now has a new studio/office. And I hope to have it in full mobile action for next summer! It's very exciting. I will be posting images of the progress on Instagram which will also show up on all other social network formats.

This is a 1969 Aristocrat Lo-Liner. I am looking forward to this project.

Other things from this summer.

KahBang (Bangor ME's Music Art Film Festival) 2013 was a great and wet time. I was able to bring something new to my work and to KahBang involving yarn. Yes I took my yarn bombing work to the fine art end of my life with adding as a artificial plant life with small monsters. I am in the midst of planning some further and larger scale work. Possibly for the winter but definitely for KahBang 2014.

             For images of these check out this link here KahBang Sculpture 2013

Other then that there was a couple shows this summer one at Frank Brockman Gallery in Brunswick ME and a few at Peloton Labs in Portland ME. Being Peloton Labs' Artist in Resident will be coming to a close as this summer closes. It has been a lot of fun but time to move on. Two years was a long time. And I hope to still get to show every now and again there down the road.

But this summer is not over yet. Even though people think Labor Day is the end of a summer, we still have most of September to get threw. And I'm sure with the way this summer has been going, there is more to tell at the official end of Summer 2013. Enjoy the rest of yours folks! 

And for September 3rd and like they say "Put a bird on it." on Portlandia, "Put a Stamp on it! (Address will help too)" for the next Snail Mail Event.

The World: The Ultimate Museum, The Ultimate Canvas or The Ultimate Gallery?

I’ve been concentrating on documenting all kinds of public art projects for just under two years and it has been a blast. I capture work from known and unknown artists - stickers, wheat pasting, graffiti, etc., and also some of my own chalk, yarn-bombings and magnetic work. That has made me wonder how other people doing all forms of street art see the world - Museum vs.Canvas vs Gallery.

The world as Museum makes a lot of sense to me. With world being the Museum, then countries, states, cities and towns are the Galleries. I make two dimensional and three dimensional work that fits into the concept of being in a Gallery. My own work has only had a small corner in a few galleries! I have had work in the Maine, Wisconsin, and the Pennsylvania Gallery. Where one sets the work - drawing with chalk, graffiti on a wall, yarn-bombing a bench, placing a statue or sculpture in a park – I see that as the Canvas.

I’m sure some curators wish they had control of the Ultimate Museum. I think these are truly the museum and galleries where street artists have complete say over what they want the public to see on their canvas.

So what do you think of the world - Museum? Gallery? Canvas?

Please share your opinion.

Daily Posts- strange delay...

Just so everyone knows there are daily pictures from a yarnbombing night by the Maine Street Stitchers. For some reason Facebook did not post the images but they can all be found at www.instagram.com/actsofrandomart.