PressRelease & Poster For StoneValleyArtsShow 9/2017 FeMailXX & GlobalAvantConspiracy MailAr

PRESS RELEASE The Global Postal Art Show: Women Art Scientists In The Avant Garde Now Stone Valley Arts At Fox Hill and Curator Tara Verheide* ask for your attendence to The Global Postal Art Show: Women Art Scientists In The Avant Garde Now. This multi-national art exhibit will be visible from September 9, thru October 1, 2017, and will feature the work of over 200 artists whom have mailed in artwork from over 20 countries. The show will be prolific, taking up all 3 spacious galleries of what was a historic, stone church, now the art center, located at 145 E. Main Street, Poultney, VT. The work ranges in style, media and size, from large posters, paintings and collages, to smaller, assembages, assembling boxes, artist books, documents, zines, altered photos, dada-objects, flux-boxes, flux-scores, original post-cards etc., to unique rubber-stampings and artistamps! All items will be exhibited in novel installation fashion, along with the envelopes and packaging they arrived in. Conceptually and intellectually, the works cover a broad range of topics and ideas that frequently humor and often surprise the viewer. The show is a must see for anyone curious about contemporary global, conceptual, networked, dada, fluxus, or correspondence art practices, as well as anyone with a passion for philatelic anything. It is of special interest to all people interested in the promulgation and augmentation of artwork done by women as on the first and last weekends of the show, there will be special events to celebrate them with an Opening Reception Sat 9 Sept 6-9pm, Forum Sun'10 Sept. 3 - 5pm, and Intermedia Performances Fri' & Sat', 29 & 30 Sept. - times TBA.** *The curator for this show, Tara Verheide, is a multi-media artist living in Ludlow Vermont. She has produced artworks ranging from large scaled welded steel and oil paintings, to assemblages, collages, installations and performances. Having recieved a BFA from SUNY New Paltz and an MAED from Castleton, she has for over 20 years worked as a part-time educator teaching everything from skills for independence, interpersonal communications, welding for trades women, drawing, studio arts, art history, sculpture and painting, at VT schools and colleges, including CCV, Castleton University, Stafford Tech, River Valley Tech and New England Trades Women. She has been involved in semiotic, dyadic, collaborative, and networked art practices including "mail" or "postal" art, since the late 80's. Works she has created in these modes have been and continue to be shown regularly throughout the world, in Global Art Call Shows and Mail Art Documentations in numerous galleries from Germany to China and Australia, to a variety of museums, mostly contemporary such as MOMA's in Brazil, LA, NY, Wales, and more. Presently she is curating exhibits for her mail art calls, and is busy developing the FeMail XX Project, aimed at promoting and documenting the work of historical and contemporary natural (xx chromosome) born women artists for all time, but especially the future *Please mark your calenders and visit online: http://stonevalleyarts.org, or phone (802) 884-8052 for more information. The Global Postal Art Show: Women Art Scientists and Avant Garde In The Global Now Location: Stone Valley Arts At Fox Hill, 145 E. Man Street, Poultney, Vermont http://stonevalleyarts.org Phone (802)884-8052 Exhibit Dates: September 9 - October 1, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 1, 2017, 6-8pm. Forum: Sunday, September 10, 2017, 3-5pm. Intermedia Performances: Friday & Saturday, September 29 & 30, 2017, times TBA. *Curated by: Tara Verheide (aka' Sinclair Scripa) Online Art Documentation at: http://femailxxproject.wixsite.com/womenartscientistblog https://globalartconspiracymailartcall.blogspot.com

Additional Information The majority of postal art installed in this show is the result of 2 separate 'open art call's which were put out by notification, primarily on facebook by "Sinclair Scripa" (Curator Tara Verheide herself). The 'call's' were named for the requested art on the themes of : "Women Art Scientist" or "Avant Art in the Global Conspiracy Of Now". They invited anyone and everyone to interpret the theme of choice by making and mailing an original art work to the curator, with the understanding that no artwork will be rejected or returned; or in other words every single work is guaranteed documentation and exhibition, but will remain in the call's permanent archives. Open Art Calls are a standard practice amongst mail artists, and the calls for this exhibition yielded fantastic results with unique perspectives and novel approaches to the themes. Also installed in the show are many personal artworks, artifacts, zines and texts taken from the curators personal archive of postal art so as to make an extremely comprehensive survey of the formats, modalities and art genres (such as fluxus, dada, neoism), that postal artists typically touch upon or utilize to expand their 'network' of colaborators or correspondents. Much is sure to entertain, and women artists are the star focus!