Altered Barbie 2008 Thanks all creatives who helped take part in making the 6th Annual Altered Barbie show the most fantabulous successfully amazingliest fun-nest show EVER!

From sponsors to artists to volunteers and independent contractors, the show would not have been successful without all the support and art and performances that helped to shape this years show!

SPONSORS:
Art 94124 GALLERY!! Thank You!
Thank you for taking the chance to show Altered Barbie at your new and wonderful gallery space! It has been a really wonderful experience working with such a dedicated crew that are all about ART and bringing the community together in the Bayview-Hunters Point district!

Thank you specifically to Servio Gomez, Chairman, and Mayra Mizrachi Co-Chair for taking a chance on me, your first independent curator and the Altered Barbie show! Also, Thanks to both of you for all your support and continuously checking in with me! Thank you to Sarah Strangle, Communications, Public Relations and Secretary! Thank you for just that! Your vision for the community is going to take you far.

Thank you to Randy Figures Programming and Curatorial Director for your consistent professionalism and kindness, Ron Saunders, Community Affairs Director, Artist and my Point Person for ART 94124 Gallery! Thank you for helping to smooth out the kinks and flattering my ego at the end! Thank you for your dry humor! Jerald Joseph, Financial Director and treasurer for support on the space and keys and psychology…you are a doll! And all other members at large from 94124 that believed in the show. Thank you!

Also, from afar, thank you to Java Valencia Bayview Hunters Point on 3rd for all your support ! For food and great coffee…luv you!

Also, thank you to Back to the Picture: for help with promotion!

Co-Sponsor:
Donna Davis: For helping with development of Altered Barbie 2008 and for being house manager the night of the artists reception! Thank you for years of moral support and Guidance! Thank you Donna Creator and Divine inspiration as well as Mistress of Ceremonies for The Marry Yourself Ceremony! I think we all began to transform from this moment on…

Donna is Forbeadin an amazing jewelry store in Noe Valley that has beads and finished jewelry galore. She gives amazing classes! A mentor extrodanair and just plain sassy, sexy and amazing! Check her out:
www.besttobegreen.com
www.forbeadin.com

Press: Thank you! Without your support of this community the show would be no where with out you all! You know who you are!

San Francisco Chronicle!!! Thank you! That was an AMAZING Article! And all your years of support! Chris Caladago: link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/01/PK9U11TUM8.DTL

San Francisco Gate: WOW thanks for this great Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/01/PK7J11UV5B.DTL And to Sue Adolphson, Sunday Datebook Editor for the excellent coverage. . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/03/PKPT11VBT1.DTL

Reuters: Thanks for taking a chance! and what excellent photos!

KOFY TV 20: Thank you for incorporating Barbie into your green segment! Luv you Kens!

San Francisco Bay Guardian: Lisa Pickoff White: Thank you for all your years of support! Luv the You Tube!

and Marisa Nakason of the San Francisco Art Examiner, thanks for the write up and your interesting perspective on the show.

San Francisco Weekly Thank you for a wonderful article! http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2008/08/sunday_altered_barbie_at_art_9.php

Ingrid's San Francisco Blog on About.com thank you for your pwesonal take.
and the fun Scott Beal at Laughing Squid thanks forposting all those great photos and videos!!

Joyce Slaton from Urban Baby San Francisco thanks for your suprizingly sassy advice to parents!
http://blogs.urbanbaby.com/sanfrancisco/2008/08/05/barbie-you-lookdifferent/

East Bay Express! That was the best!

Web Site:
kayla karelick! I have so much to Thank you for! First for all your Web Site support! I am an extremely bad computer student and your patience is unlimited! Also for being the backbone behind the making for both 2007 and 2008. Thank you for your dedication and belief in me … above and beyond Altered Barbie! Thank G-d we are planning the future together! How Green it looks! What would I do with out you! Check out: daydreamingarts.net

Juror:
Maggie Malloy! Juror! Pedestals! Thank You! For keeping me organized and on task and for acting calm and professional in the midst of it all! I know that sometimes it did not appear that I was listening but I was and I have learned a vast amount from all your sculpting and Jury expertise! Keep an eye out for Maggie at the De Young in fall of 2009!

Décor: Interior design:
Dana Marek: Fabric hanging, Boa decorating, ladder negotiating, clean up and many then somes! You make have helped make the shows absolutely full and fabulous over and over again! Your belief and support of me is unfathomable! Thank you!

Workshops: and co-founder!
Charlotte Davis: Hot Glue Gun expert who conducted the altered Barbie workshops over the years! and is the Co-founder of the Altered Barbie Exhibit! Oiy, what would I do with or without you! Festivus to the rest of us! Oiy! Kevetch! Oiy!

SCRAP-and Kenan for yet another amazing and successful Altered Barbie Workshop! Thank you for the space and thank you for taking a chance on me as an unknown! And thanks for everything! Keep doing what you are doing! Check out www.scrap-sf.org/

Special Thanks to:
PNN: Jennifer Jacobson and Co. For photographing the show!!! As well as filming You Tubes for both the 2007 and 2008 Exhibits!

Graphics:
June Komater: Thank you!! For all your Amazing and stunning time and work! What would the show be without your graphics? Next year?! www.jkomaterdesign.com

Moral Support Gallery Sitting:
Mey Lee: for sitting in the gallery many an afternoon…and keeping me company! Even when I was grumpy! And this says a lot about you and your nature! I love you baby!

Artists!
Sculpture/photography/painters
Thanks to the over 80+ Artists who participated in the show to make this year a phenomenal year! The work is and always has been phenomenal! Without you the concept of Altered would be Hollywood Plastic Surgery and Face lifts, Barbiesk Plastic and more plastic….Jacksonesque goofed jobs. But you my darling San Francisco/Bay area artists community takes the word Altered and morphs it into a cultural phenomenon that defies words…you have to see this work to believe it! You have to EXPerience the Work and the Exhibit!

Film:
Tiffany Shlain: The Tribe
Susan Stern: Barbie Nation www.bernalbeach.com

Michel Fraser! How to Alter a Barbie: www.michelfraser.com

Sergiu Lupse: Excerpt

Poets: Thank you Susan Biehl and all the Poets: for their amazing performance! Please come back! You were amazing!

Performance:
Bad Unkl Sista: for the Butoh with bad unkl sista homeless shoe fetish Barbie performance: and for your professionalism! Bad Unkl Sista is a multitalented artist to find out more: www.badunklsista.com

Thank you to the details that made the reception come alive!
Live Band: Theloni on Wry
MC: John Hell from Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm in SF
DJ: Mr. Robinson!

Family and friends:
My fabulous Family and friends especially Hanson Lee for your support over the years, and JANE! What you have had to put up with over the years! Oh my! And don’t we have fun b@#$!, Olivia , Jody and of course Julia! All partners in crime! Thank you!

By Gone Thanks!!!
Michel Fraser: Thank You! For all your years of support! Your influence is far reaching!! Someday I will catch up and have $$$$!

PATRONS AND BUYERS and LOVERS OF BARBIE!
Thank you!!!! to all those who have supported the show either by purchasing an Altered Barbie piece and/or showing up and oohing and ahhying over the pieces! Without you Altered Barbie would not exist! Thanks for coming one and coming back again and again! Looking forward to seeing you next year! 2009! History is being made! Right here in our own backyard! There is no place like home!

I hope I did not over-look anyone! Thank you all!!

ChatterBox International: Julie Andersen alteredbarbie.com, alteredbarbie.pnn.com

Here at last are some of the exciting videos for Altered Barbie 2008!!

First and Finally: TV 20 on YouTube!

And this video from Lisa Pickoff-White and Rhyen Coombs showcasing "A night with Barbie at the annual San Francisco event showcasing altered Barbies from area artists".

Lisa Pickoff-White and Rhyen Coombs are two multimedia reporters in the Bay Area and enrolled in UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism

and this from foundobjectvideo, song by jacobson communications

please email Julie if you find interesting altered barbibe videos online!!

Come join the Celebration of Self and Closing Ceremony of Altered Barbie!

If you missed the Altered Barbie Artists Reception and the workshop at SCRAP, there is still one more celebration happening!
Come join the Celebration of Self and Closing Ceremony of Altered Barbie!
Host of the Evening is Donna Davis!
When: Thursday August 14th! starting at 6PM! Looking forward to seeing you all! Julie

DJ MR. RObinson starts at 6pm - 7pm
Mira is on at 7pm
Herb 7:15
Brian sings cabaret style 7:30
Celebration 7:31

And guest singer to be announced at the show..

I just wanted to Thank all of you for participating in Altered Barbie 2008! The show is successful because of you and your art work living, static, moving, performing, muscial, behind the scenes, etc....Thank you! Thank you! If you did not get an award please remind me at pick up and I will present you with an award! Everyone won!

Also, TV 20,Reuters, and the Bay Guardian showed up at the artists reception and had interviews etc...! I have not seen anything yet so Stay tuned and I will be sending out links, etc...

Pick up of all art Work is Monday August 18th from 3-7. If ANYTHING Is left behind I am not responsible for it after 7pm. Thank you!

I am so pleased to be producing the 6th Annual Altered Barbie and Ken exhibit again. This show is a multidimensional, multiplatform exhibition that brings emerging and established artists of all ages and all cultural backgrounds together. This 6th annual Altered Barbie and Ken is about celebrating the amazing diversity of the Art world in San Francisco. This year's theme is celebrating through Community, Carnival and Re-use!

Altered Barbie will be in the new hot Art 94124 Gallery!!! Art 94124 Galleryis a grassroots organization formed to celebrate the longstanding tradition of art in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point district. Their mission is to inspire, strengthen and unify the community through art. Gallery 94124 showcases work of artists of all disciplines in an effort to enrich the community.

Art 94124 Gallery is located at 3900B 3rd Street at Fairfax (near Evans) In conjunction with Café Valencia and Back to the Picture. Gallery Hours: Monday-Sunday 12-5pm Call for Appointments after 5:00PM 415.240.2202 the exhibition runs from August 1st-August 17th.

Maggie Malloy is 2008's Altered Barbie's Official Juror. She can be reached at: malloysmail@aol.com

Altered Barbie 2008: Barbie and Ken’s Community Carnival, think Celebration, think Community, think diversity, think Re-Use! In all the myriad of ways one can Celebrate with others!!!!

The web site is constantly updated.......Any questions or comments...please e-mail or contact me

Julie Andersen
Exhibition Director/ Arts Liaison
ChatterBox Arts International
(415) 240-2202
jilleele@yahoo.com

EVENTS Happening at the 2008 Altered Barbie

8/01/08  - Fundraising Event for Art 94124 Gallery. In conjunction with Altered Barbie
Auction fundraiser for Art 94124 Gallery
Auction item for the night: LaVonne Sallee piece to be announced

8/08/08 – BARBIE’s & KEN’s Carnival and ARTISTS RECEPTION 5-9PM
5-9pm Master of ceremonies: John Hell from Pirate Cat Radio
(Listen to Pirate Cat Radio, 87.9fm in SF & LA, 104.8fm in
Berlin, and online at http://piratecatradio.com).
Live Band (on sidewalk as agreed) Theloni on Wry
Barely Making It Wines
Films: 5-9
Tiffany Shlain, The Tribe
Susan Stern, Barbie Nation
Lupse Sergiu:  Excerpt & BREATH
Michel Fraser Documentary about Ali: How to Make Altered Barbie
Rosie Fry: teen film on Barbie
Auction item for the night: LaVonne Sallee piece to be announced
Auction item for the night: bottle of Barely Making it Wines

Performance: Bad Unkl Sista: Homeless Barbie

Starting at 7:00PM with The Cherrie Williams' Bluezy/Jazz Solo:
LOVE, DECEIT AND PAIN

Barbie poetry readings: Sara Biel: So far there are about 3 people reading…
Butoh with Bad Unkl Sista: about 10 minutes

Closing 8/14/08   Marriage to self vows
Mira Waksman - Israeli singer
Herb Kaufmann - reading from published short story
DJ Mr. Robinson: celebration grooves
Donna Davis: Celebrate yourself marry yourself ceremony.  A fun event to celebrate who you are.

August 9th Altered Barbie Workshop: SCRAP
Charlotte Davis
Tour of Art 94124 Gallery on Saturday August 9th from 12-1
Workshop at SCRAP 1-3

Julie Andersen
Altered Barbie
Exhibition Director/ Arts Liaison
ChatterBox Arts International
(415) 240-2202

WHEN: Exhibition runs from August 1st-August 17th.
WHERE: Exhibition can be viewed at Art 94124 Gallery
located at 3900B 3rd Street at Fairfax (near Evans),
San Francisco, CA 94124.
Gallery Hours: Monday-Sunday 12-5pm Call for Appointments after 5:00PM 415.240.2202
Artist Reception and Ball Second Friday, August 8th.

What's New?!? Lupse Sergiu, independent film maker from Romania who presented an amazing short film last year called "Excerpt" has finished the final touches of An all new short for this years altered barbie: "Breath".

The screen shots show he is continuing to work with his dark electric interpretation of Barbie's inner turmoil.

Click here to see full sized screen shots.

Also LaVonne Sallee's auto biographical article:
"WOW" has been posted to the artists' page.

Thank you very much for supporting this event. It’s going to be a fabulous experience!

CONTACT: Julie Jill of ChatterBox: 404 Summit Dr., Corte Madera, Ca. 94925

E-mail: Julie Jill of ChatterBox at: jilleele@yahoo.com phone: 415.240.2202

Julie Jill of ChatterBox is a San Francisco based arts organization devoted to showcasing artists and their art in cross-cultural exchanges and exhibitions in the United States, China and Vietnam.

Questions: Julie Andersen @ 415.240.2202 or e-mail her at jilleele@yahoo.com

daydreaming arts has generously provided Altered Barbie the time and talents of kayla garelick