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Cynthia Tom A Place of her own

Submitted by Julie on 23 September 2011 - 2:23pm

Cynthia Tom is bringing a place of her own to AlteredBarbie. If Barbie had a place that was her own what would it look like?

A PLACE OF HER OWN is a multi-phase, multi-venue arts project. The project poses the question, “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?” and invites artists and the public to respond in a variety of ways.

Women, through necessity and parental or cultural training, learn to compromise themselves. Women often set aside their own needs to support others to the point of losing them. Rarely have women learned to reclaim a place of their own, metaphorically or physically. What happens when we expand the parameters beyond the concept of a room and discover a place, in which the limitations are bound by the imagination and nothing more?

The conceptual frame work and long term goal of this project is to generate a creative place for women to reconnect with themselves and make their aspirations visible. This is not just a curatorial vision of Cynthia Tom's, but a lifelong passion.

Roaddawgz will be at the Artists Reception

Submitted by Julie on 23 September 2011 - 2:05pm

Roaddawgz youth will create a variety of Altered Barbies for sale at the AlteredBarbie Exhibition 2011. 100% of sales of dolls go directly back to the youth! Know that your purchase supports an essential service in our community. It is a way of telling the youth they count and there is healthy support out there. Thank you Machiko for all you do!

The Roaddawgz mission is to empower homeless youth, build community, develop job and life skills through literary and artistic activities while providing vital services, information and referrals.

The Roaddawgz drop-in center is a highly unique, activity-driven, safe and supportive sanctuary for homeless youth who are writers, artists and musicians. We employ a peer-driven, harm reduction, self-help model and provide participants cash payments for their creative works and participation in our mentoring program, workshops, events and internships. The people we serve are between the ages 15 to 24. Our participants encompass all minorities including racial, sexual and gender.

The Roaddawgz Purpose-We are dedicated to help end homelessness, reducing homeless youth incarceration, hospitalization and preventable deaths by providing mental health support and creative and educational alternatives to criminal, dangerous and life threatening behavior.

9/9/10 Department of the Environment has joined Altered Barbie 2010! ARTISTS RECEPTION! A Date with Barbie

Submitted by Julie on 1 September 2010 - 12:57pm

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

Altered Barbie 2010 - Welcome from Julie Andersen

Submitted by Julie on 2 June 2010 - 3:01am

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.

Why and how i do altered barbie by Lavonne Sallee

Submitted by Julie on 22 July 2009 - 12:00am

WOW! Who would have thought that, at the age of 62 I would have found something that inspires me so much? And, as a double whammy, that it would involve playing with Barbie dolls, blows me away. All of my life I searched for something to create or produce that would make me feel fulfilled. Well, I produced three children, two boys (now 31 and 41) and a daughter (now 34) and they produced 3 children so far. That fulfills me and now they are grown and on their own. Somewhere along the line I realized that ME, SEARCHING for the thing that I could create was the wrong way to go about it.

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