"32 Big Pictures" is a reproduction of a series of collages by Dana F. Smith created using traditional collage techniques - scissors, paste, paper.
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!
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.
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.
Every day Barbie is bombarded with messages from the likes of eHarmony, Match.com and her Mother telling her that she needs Ken to make her a whole woman. This year Barbie is tired of being told that she's weird for being single. This year she yells to the world, "Say it loud - I'm single and I'm Proud!"
It's her call to arms for every person, female or male, gay or straight, married, divorced or polyamorous. Relationships are tricky, personal and different for everyone and Barbie wants to know how that her tribe loves her no matter what her Facebook status.
Altered Barbie artist Leigh Radtke recommends the current Plastic Collection on the Barbie Collector website.
Highlights include a trip to the amazing House of Barbie in Shanghai and the "Team Pink" Foosball Table.
We have just updated our Media Page with lots more press coverage from this years show.
We've also been enjoying the great pictures taken by David Pang... check out all his Altered Barbie Galleries.
Love this Slideshow of our Artist's Reception and great shots from the Barbie 50th Anniversary Ball - below.
Thursday's puppet show is coming up!
For more information visit the Little Blue Moon Website
The show is $20.
For seats call Julie at 415.240.2202.
Take a look at these amazing photos from our Artist Reception on SFSTATION
Fabulous poster from Altered Barbie artist Kimberley Simmons available from our online store now.
Organizer of this year's Altered Barbie Spoken Word Night, J-Ha is a poet and founder of The Barbie Cage and its accompanying haiku contest. Coming up on it's fifth year, the contest solicits haiku inspired by The Barbie Cage, an art installation based in a rabbit cage that changes with the seasons. To read the haiku anthologies and view images of The Barbie Cage, visit thebarbiecage.com.
Here is a quick recap of Altered Barbie on John Hell's monday radio show.
Includes and interview with our own Julie Anderson.
American Icon is the 1st Place Winner of the 2007 World Living Statue Competition held in Arnhem, Netherlands
A team of artists for the American Icon entry was led by Gregangelo Artistic Director for Velocity Circus. Joanne Evangelista a multi-award winning multimedia artist and master make-up artist created a special effect illusion make-up that took the completion by storm and helped secure first place.Audrey Rosales a native San Franciscan and circus artists was the original model for the competition and created the gown. Ms. Rosales stamina as a circus artists allowed her to stand motionless with her eyes close for hours as hundreds of thousands spectators and judges milled around her and judged the competition.
