Went tonight to a First Thursday Gallery opening at one of my favourite Calgary little eclectic book arts loving Galleries where I made my first ever IN-PERSON-and-IN -THE-FLESH ATC exchange!
I traded with photographer Roberta Murray, who is also known as uncommondepth on the ATCS for All website....I received a print of her fine limited edition digitally enhanced Alberta parkland photo "Daybreakers" in exchange for my own ( Artist proof) copy of "Eternity"..
Interesting to talk to an established Artist who agrees that there is still prevalent a lack of acceptance for the validity and merit of creative photographic art enhanced digitally on behalf of still quite a few out there...
I"m also in a mail art trade with another member of the site who does lovely digital art from Finland, trading a post-card size copy of my digitally archived but never printed or traded "The Ghost in the Machine "
We're both quite interested in seeing how long mail takes from there to Canada -and vice -versa!
ATC's for ALL is a PRIMO site for all kinds of trades and swaps ever-changing and fast moving....
One can configure their own Gallery and thus display any cards they want to trade one-on-one; or join one of the active swaps ", there's also forums for swapping art other than ATCS...such as inchies, chunkies, bookmarks or the aforementioned Mail Art...
Have joined:
-a digital "round robin"
-a 3-for-3 swap on TREES ( any medium )
-a 3-for3 on the theme "Air" ( any medium )
-and a 3-for-3 creating your own hand-drawn and coloured CHIMERA
For anyone at all interested in Art exchanges I most definitely say ...
CHECK IT OUT!
