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Comment by Brigitte Martin on September 1, 2015 at 5:12pm

This is interesting. Thanks American Craft council for bringing this book to our attention!

"Forget the image of the artist as the ultimate soloist, expressing his or her highly individual vision. In his new book, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design, Francesco Spampinato explores a new generation of artists and makers who are working together, creating inventive work across creative disciplines." - See more at: http://craftcouncil.org/post/francesco-spampinato-rise-cooperative-...

Comment by Brigitte Martin on August 18, 2015 at 11:45am

Velvet da Vinci just sent out the announcement for the CoOperation Garnish exhibition opening this Friday! http://crafthaus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/co-operation-garnish-to-op...

Image: Billie Theide & Brooke Marks-Swanson, Specimen B (Brooch), Vintage linen postcard, cotton, plywood, pewter, recycled sterling silver, 18K gold dust, turquoise.

Comment by Brigitte Martin on April 27, 2015 at 9:58am

Here's our electronic postcard ! Fee free to copy and post :)

Comment by Brigitte Martin on March 6, 2015 at 3:07pm

Rachel Timmins and I are very pleased to announce the 18 collaborative artist pairings for the Co:Operation Garnish Core group:

Suzanne Amendolara & Dan DiCaprio,

Christiana Byrne & David LeeA

Catherine Chandler & Sonya Scott

Brian Ferrell & Jillian Moore

Emily Gill & Jaime Sawka

Peter Hoogeboom & Maja Houtman

Nicole Jacquard & Annie Fensterstock

Satomi Kawai & Nikki Couppee

Thomas Mann & Wayne Werner

Bruce Metcalf & Evin Dubois

Tom Muir & Caitlin Skelcey

Mette Saabye & Pernille Mouritzen

Linda Savineau & Steve Shelby

Olga Starostina & Corey Ackelmire

Billie Jean Theide & Brooke Marks-Swanson

Rachel Timmins & Brigitte Martin

Aric Verrastro & Randy Long

The above artist group represents the CORE GROUP of the garnish exhibition project. This is the part of the exhibition that will travel to every single gallery location (unless a piece gets sold on the way).

Thank you again to all the artists who worked jointly together and committed to this project. It was a great pleasure seeing all your work and we look forward to an exciting exhibition cycle.

Rachel Timmins & Brigitte Martin

Comment by Brigitte Martin on February 26, 2015 at 12:19pm

Rachel and I have finally FINISHED jurying the Core Group for the Co:Operation Garnish exhibition! This specific group will travel to every single exhibition location: San Francisco, Baltimore, Brooklyn, New Orleans, San Antonio and Boston!

Jurying this part of the exhibition was not easy and we do not envy the galleries for the jurying that they will all need to do in order to individualize their own Garnish Exhibitions. Y'all made the jurying process really tough! We have a total of 18 very diverse pieces chosen out of over 80 collaborative entries that we received. Applicants can expect their e-mail notifications from us by the end of next week and we'll also post the list of names for our Core Group of Garnish Collaborators with some promotional images next week as well. Just tying up some last minute lose ends right now. Notification for artists and galleries will go out next week.

Thanks to everyone who took on this challenge! Your positive responses are truly overwhelming - in the best way!

Comment by Brigitte Martin on February 16, 2015 at 8:45am

The CoOperation Garnish deadline was yesterday and Rachel​ and I are swamped with the many wonderful projects you folks created collaboratively over the past months! Entries came in from all over the US, Canada, South America and Europe, with many people working across city/state/country borders. Very impressive job you guys! We are currently wading though bucket loads of entries putting things together for the jurying phase which comes up next. Thanks so much to all who submitted, we hope you enjoyed the project. We will send out your individual entry confirmations asap.

Comment by Steve Shelby on February 1, 2015 at 6:03pm

Thanks Rachel. I agree about third person; I never have felt comfortable writing that way, but some venues require it. Now I have some sense of direction. I think we'll both write our own version, then do whatever mix and match editing we can bot agree on.

Comment by Steve Shelby on February 1, 2015 at 5:28pm

Linda Savineau and I are getting our project near completion, and working on the entry. Neither of us can quite get a handle on what is wanted for the joint statement. Should it be written so it appears to be narrated by a third party talking about the two artists, or in first person, with each artist writing about it from their individual point of view? Do any of you have a good example of such a joint statement?

Comment by Brigitte Martin on January 25, 2015 at 9:08am

Update: The first few entries have started to come in, Rachel and I are very excited! The other great news is that our project has definitely spread well beyond US/Canada participation. We received info and inquiries from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, UK, Germany, Holland, Argentina and just this morning: India! Seems like makers are truly eager to work together and overcome their differences. We couldn't be happier and prouder. Carry on!!

Comment by Anne Morgan on September 26, 2014 at 6:12am

I'm a little late to the party but this sounds fab. Wondering if I'll be able to find someone to work with in time?

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