Charlottetown- The Confederation Centre Art Gallery is organizing an Artist Trading Card (ATC) event for all ages. The event will take place in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on August 1 at 7:30 p.m. To participate in this event, please register before June 30 at midnight.
ATCs are miniature works of art, no larger than a baseball card (approximately 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches), used for trading with other artists. ATCs can be created with any material imaginable (wood, clay, wool, glass, metal, fabrics, water colors, ink, etc.). Imagination is the key ingredient to a unique trading card.
Cards can be produced in editions (limited number of the same card), series (set of cards with a unifying theme), or as singular originals. ATCs must be self-produced and signed by the artist. Written on the back is the artists’ name and contact information, the card title and if applicable, the edition or series number.
If 50 people sign up for this program, participants will be requested to create 50 ATCs for trading at the August event.
“I know that can seem like a daunting number, however, you can make multiples,” says Siobhan Wiggans, Education and Outreach Officer at the Centre. “Hopefully participants will be inspired by the cards they saw produced last year.”
To register, please contact Siobhan Wiggans by email, confederationcentre.com, or by phone 628.6112.
Registration for this event will end on June 30 at midnight. A week after registration, participants will be contacted to confirm the number of cards they are required to create for the August trading event.
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