Altered Barbie Blog

The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition is proud to present an evening of Barbie inspired poetry featuring the Bay Area's outstanding: Amber Brianne Bouman, Meg Day, Lara Durback, Gina Goldblatt, Raymond Hobbs, Keely Hyslop, Daniel Weatherfield Lichtenberg, Sean Labrador y Manzano, Herbert Foster Kaufman, Juliana Korysno Miller, Chris Pine, Margaret Rhee, MG Roberts, Dennis Somera, Chris Tom, Nora Toomey, and Rebecca VanDeVoort!

Admission Free

Raffle ticket with Altered Barbie 2010 Anthology purchase!

Come dressed as your favorite Barbie or Ken, meet the artists who have resurrected and reinvented Ken and Barbie into art and performance.
The evening will include
Barbie Films, Barbie Performance, Barbie MC, El Radio Fantastique!, Gregangelo’s American Icon!, belly dance and more

9/15/10: 7PM-9PM The Artists Process: A Conversation: How and why they alter Barbie. This will be a fun filled eye opening evening into the inner workings of these most creative and fun artists.

9/11 & 9/18 SCRAP 10PM-1:00PMWorkshops at S50AS: A Date With Barbie!
Think Barbie out of the Box! Alter and recycle your own Barbie and or Ken by embellishing and/or building an environment.
Materials donated by SCRAP.

9/11 Charlotte Davis will be leading the class
9/18 Ruby Pearl will be leading the class

To sign up for classes: http://www.scrap-sf.org/workshops.htm. Links to the site can also be found through www.alteredbarbie.com

Check it out, more barbies and more fun!
Open monday through Friday 9AM-5PM
9/9/10-9/30/10

9/9/10: 5-7:30 Department of the Envrionment Altered Barbie Artists Reception @11 Grove st., San Francisco, Ca.
Where: Department of the Environment, SF, Ca. 11 Grove Street

The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition is proud to present anevening of outside-the-box stand-up comedy featuring San Franciso's finest: David Hawkins, Pippi Lovestocking, Nicole Calasich & Mary Van Note

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"32 Big Pictures" is a reproduction of a series of collages by Dana F. Smith created using traditional collage techniques - scissors, paste, paper.

Dana F. Smith, has used cut and paste techniques to create an intricate series of collages based in the theme of Barbie. Dana “colored” a child’s coloring book with images from magazines by painstakingly cutting up magazines and gluing each piece into the black-lined images of Barbie. Each collage has the underlying theme of a yearly season or holiday, and then the imagery used to “color” the collage lends a second sub-theme that is derived from the use of a particular type of photo or magazine. 

You can see images of each page of the book here or purchase a copy here.

Romancing the Barbie: A Call to Artists

The 2010 Call for Artists has just been posted!  Click here to read all latest information.

Get ready for the San Francisco Love affair with Barbie and the Altered Barbie Show! Altered Barbie is not just another pretty date, she is pretty much almost anything you want her to be!

It is Romancing the Altered Barbie a la San Francisco style! Please donate to the 2010 Altered Barbie Exhibition! We always need money and support to make the exhibition a reality.

Please contact Julie Andersen jilleelee@gmail.com and check (pun intended) out the web site under sponsors. Thank you for being Angel Barbies!

What 2010 has to Offer

Look forward to updates on the web site including interviews with new and old artists and art, blogs, and articles that have almost anything to do with Barbie! And the making of art out of plastic.

Altered Barbie is gearing up for multiple events that will include interactive art events, shows, and much more. We will be collaborating with different artists, arts organizations, and NPO's throughout San Francisco! Currently we are negotiating dates with Galleries, flirting with the city, looking for sponsors and advertisers.

Altered Barbie is announcing a new Curatorial training program:

We will train you to present a multi dimensional interactive event that can include up to 100 active participants, from back end to show time!

Barbie Provides

My name is Herb Kaufman, I'm the project manager for Altered Barbie 2010. I have been meeting with Sensei Jill in coffee places around this city we love, meticulously preparing the ground for this year's show.

We're approaching the show like we're building a park. Team Jill prepares the soil, the artists plant the trees (and strange shrubs), and the viewers are mother nature, kind and cruel.

We want to give every artist a solid, healthy place to start and grow; whether they want to build on their current creative trajectory or take a much needed break from said trajectory. We offer Barbie.

This merry month of May we'll be deciding the two big numbers for the show, the when and where. We're digging it, right now, its all about the dirt and hopes for the future. All things through Barbie.