Midwest Collage Society: Post X Planetcollage.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

Post X Planetcollage.com

LuEllen Joy Giera

1213 North LaGrange Road

Garden Apartment

LaGrange Park, IL 60526

June 2009

Come see what's happening at theLaGrange Park Library! Planet Collage.com is proud to announce it second group show entitled“Post X” July 1, 2009 through July 31, 2009 - - Planet Collage.com will be exhibiting in the art gallery within the Lagrange Park Library (Illinois) located on the second floor during the month of July! This group show of members of planetcollage.com includes individual art by select members, exchanged collage postcards along with exchanged candy tins. Plantcollage.com is an international online fine art collage group whose members are from all over the globe. This show will represent select member artists who reside in the surrounding suburbs* of Chicago and as far away as Pennsylvania, Spain, California and Washington State. Along with small artworks created by planetcollage.com members, this exhibit includes a collection of postcards and tins received by curator and founder of planetcollage.com, LuEllen Joy Giera of LaGrange Park, IL. The international postcard exchange began in April 2006. A list is created month by month and each participating artist is expected to make one postcard-sized (5”x7”) collage and mail them out to each and every participant. Each artist will receive the equal number of postcards back in their mailbox each month. This group show is just a very small portion of a wonderful array of collage work including framed and unframed pieces, candy tins and postcards exchanged to and from each artist as part of the monthly international postcard exchange. This is the second group show of PlanetCollage.com. Please view planetcollage.com and click on the member’s page for more information!
* Illinois Residents - Volo, LaGrange Park, Glen Ellyn, Arlington Heights, Bloomingdale, Villa Park * Other locales - Morton, PA / Olympia, WA / Canyon Country, CA / Amherst, MA / Rancho Mirage, CA / Garden Grove, CA / Leon, Spain
-- LuEllen Joy Gieraplanetcollage.com

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Members

The MCS has over fifty members from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Most members reside in the Chicago area. All members are professional artists who exhibit regularly in urban and suburban galleries. Many exhibit in other states, and a few exhibit internationally. The backgrounds of our members are varied, and range from those with graduate training in the fine arts to the self-taught. Many work in fields outside of the art-related professions. The diverse experience of our members is one of the Midwest Collage Society's greatest assets, and has contributed to our growth.

Ode to Collage Artists

We walk around always looking down,
Searching for things to pick up off the ground.
Leaves and paper or bits of string,
We can use just about anything.
While others may watch us and shake their head,
We just cram the stuff in our pockets and forge on ahead.
Home we go can't wait to start, what would we do if we didn't love Art?
We empty our pockets to peruse all our treasures, amazed this junk gives us great pleasures.
We crumple and tear, we sand and we paint, And we can't forget the glues and paste.
Amazed with the things we can create from someone else waste.
When were done some will say we just made it look old, But when we look upon it, All we see is Gold!

by Debbie Wojnarowski

Meetings and Dues

MCS generally meets on the first Sunday of each month (excluding January and July), from 12:30 to 3:00 PM in Darien, IL. Since many members live well beyond this area, the MCS uses its newsletter, group website, and regular e-mail communication to provide all members with timely information about planned exhibits and program content. Annual dues are twenty dollars ($20.00). Members also pay nominal fees for meeting workshops and exhibit entries. Membership dues are payable in April of each year.

Meetings are held at the Darien Municipal Center, 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien, IL.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Post X Planetcollage.com

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