A Book About Death Seattle: July 2011

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH SEATTLE
Nov 11 - Dec 10, 2011
Opening: Nov 11 6-9pm
Closing reception: Dec 10, 6-9 pm

OPEN ART CALL FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST EXHIBITION "A BOOK ABOUT DEATH"
at the Almendra Sandoval Quetzalcoatl Gallery, Seattle Washington, USA .

Artists, please note: For consistency and fairness, we will publish up to two images on the blog. You may mail as many images as you like with the words "A Book About Death" written in any language on the front and we will exhibit all of them in the gallery.

MAILING ADDRESS:

Almendra Sandoval
or Kathleen McHugh
QUETZALCOATL GALLERY
3209 Beacon Ave S
Seattle, Washington 98144 USA

In the spirit of the NYC exhibition, artists are asked to create a "page" for the unbound book about death. The art exhibited in Seattle will be archived in the permanent gallery collection. The art will be available for future exhibition opportunities to share the Seattle pages from the global unbound book about death.

Guidelines:
1) Send one two dimensional postcard, print or artwork in any media framed or unframed to exhibit in the gallery.
2) The art needs to have the words "A Book About Death" in any language somewhere on the front.
3) The size may range from 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm (the smallest size) 4"x6" to 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm (the largest size) 8"x10"

OPTIONAL: You may produce 100 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm 4"x6" prints, photocopies or postcards of artwork, with any artist information (biography & contact) printed on the back. These cards will be available for gallery visitors. Almendra Sandoval will save any remaining cards to distribute in appropriate venues to promote ABAD artists.

4) The gallery will not accept any art that has customs/delivery fees or postage due.

5) Deadline for art to arrive at gallery:
10pm October 31, 2011

6) Email a jpeg for A Book About Death Seattle blog. Send artist's name, website or blog links and jpeg of image to: abadsea@gmail.com for posting on A Book About Death Seattle blog http://abadseattle.blogspot.com/

7) Kathleen McHugh and Herb Sundvall, blog administrators, will post artwork and artist information on the blog as soon as the jpegs are received from the artists; confirmation of the work at the gallery will be posted on the blog when received by the gallery.

“A Book About Death” is an artists’ collaborative project conceived by collage artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City where the original exhibition took place from September 10 - 22, 2009. (Photo: Installation, ABAD, NYC, September 2009).

Over 500 artists contributed 500 postcards each created from artworks made especially to create an unbound book about memory and death. The exhibition has become a global phenomenon, as well as becoming part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library.

For more information about the scope and history of the project, and documentation of previous ABAD exhibitions, please visit the archive: http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/

A very brief selection of ABAD exhibitions in Brazil:
Art call Brazil: http://www.brooklynartproject.com/events/call-for-works-a-book-about
Um Livro Sobre A Morte: http://umlivrosobreamorte.blogspot.com/
Museum of Modern Art Wales art call: http://www.mobius.org/blog/jane-wang/moma-wales-book-about-death-call-works-deadline-march-16-2010
Ray Johnson and A Book About Death SAL Gallery, Brookville, NY
http://rayjohnsonandabookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
ABAD Italy: http://unlibrosullamorte.blogspot.com/

SPONSORSHIP: WATER
Water is the most basic need for life. Without water, there is nothing.

A Book About Death Seattle is partnering with Mwanzo Proud Farmers, a US based non-profit organization. The mission of Mwanzo Proud Farmers is "To expand and diversify Kenyan cash and food crop farming as environmentally and economically sustainable business in rural communities."

The founder/director of Mwanzo Proud Farmers is Loyce Ong’udi who was a Harry Truman Scholar at the University of Washington where she studied leadership development and non-profit management. Loyce is using her education and history of international non-profit development experience to bring water and rural farming to her childhood village in rural Kenya, as well assurrounding villages. Loyce is bringing irrigated water to regions decimated by AIDS in Kenya.

To learn more about her work, please visit MWANZO PROUD FARMERS.

A Book About Death seeks sponsorship to cover the costs of the exhibition at the Quetzalcoatl Feathersnake Gallery and assist Mwanzo Proud Farmers in bringing life to rural Kenya.
For information about how to make a donation to Mwanzo Proud Farmers, please contact:

Almendra Sandoval
QUETZALCOATL GALLERY
3209 Beacon Ave S
Seattle, WA 98144 USA
informacion: almendra@almendrasandoval.com

"UN LIBRO ACERCA DE LA MUERTE"

ALMENDRA SANDOVAL
QUETZALCOATL GALLERY,
SEATTLE WA 98144 USA

NOV 11-DIC 10, 2011
RECEPCION: NOV 11 6-9PM
DESPEDIDA: DEC 10, 6-9PM

Con el espiritu de cierre de la exibicion en Nueva York, artistas locales me pidieron que creeara un llamado para Artistas para creear un libro sin terminar (solo la portada) llamado "un libro acerca de la Muerte." El cual la galeria lo conservara como permanente collection; qudando disponible para su exhibicion en futuras oportunidades para compartir con el resto del mundo el libro sin terminar llamado "Un Libro Acerca de la Muerte."

REGLAS:

1) Manda una pieza de arte, de dos dimenciones postal, impresion, pintura; en cualquier medio; enmarcado o sin enmarcar al a galeria.

2) La pieza de arte tine que tener las palabras escritas: "un libro acerca de la Muerte." En cualquier idioma al frente.

3) El tamano puede variar de el mas pequeno 4"x6" -10.16 x15.24 cm, a el mas grande 8"x10"- 20.32 x 25.4 cm.

OPCIONAL:

100 Postales, copias, pinturas, con cualquier informacion que del Artista (biografia, contacto)
impreso el la parte de artas. Estas 100 OPCIONAL 10.16cmx 15.24cm, 4" x 6" imagenes para los visitantes de la galeria.

Almendra Sandoval guardara las que queden de esta exhibicion, para promocion y distribucion en futuras oportunidades para compartir con el resto del mundo el libro sin terminar llamado "Un Libro Acerca de la Muerte."

4) La galeria no aceptara ningun cargo de distribucion o costo de envio.
envia por correo o a mano,100 10.16cmx 15.24cm, 4" x 6" imagenes a:

Almendra Sandoval
or Kathleen McHugh
QUETZALCOATL GALLERY
3209 Beacon Ave S
Seattle, WA 98144

5) El correo deve de llegar con fecha de plazo de 10pm Octubre 31, 2011.

6) Email en .jpeg para el blog de "A Book About Death." Manda tus datos: Nombre, paguina web, blog, links a: abadseattle@gmail.com para ponerlos en el blog de Seattle "A Book About Death."
http://abadseattle.blogspot.com/

7) Kathleen Mchugh and Herb Sundvall, administradores del blog, publicaran tu imagen original y confirmacion del correo cuando llege ala galeria.

"A Book About Death" es un proyecto de colavoracion de artistas comenzado por el artista Matthew Rose para la Fundacion Emely Harvey en Nueva York cuando la original exhibicion se abrio el 10 de Septiembre, 2009. Mas de 500 artistas apoyaron para creear y dejar en memoria a "A Book About Death." La exhibicion y apoyo se convertio en un fenomeno global y se ha convertido en la colecion permanente de el Museo de Arte Moderno y LA Capital Museo biblioteca de investigacion de arte.
Para mas informacion e historia del proyecto, por favor visite los archivos:

http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/

Documentacion de pasadas exhibiciones:

BRAZIL
http://brooklynartproject.com/events/call-for-works-a-book-about
http://umlivrosobreamorte.blogspot.com/

Wales Museo de Arte Moderno
http://mobius.org/blog/jane-wang/moma-wales-book-about-death-call-works-deadline-march-16-2010

SAL Gallery, Brookville, NY
http://rayjohnsonanddabookadoutdeath.blogspot.com/

ITALIA
http://unlibrosullamorte.blogspot.com/

Patrocinadores

El Agua es el elemento basico para la vida. Sin el agua, no hay vida."El Libro Acerca de la Muerte" Seattle esta asociado con Granjeros Orgullosos de Mwanzo, organizacion estado unidense sin fines de lucro. La mision de Granjeros Orgullosos de Mwanzo es de estender y diversificar el financiamiento de la cosecha de los granjeros y ambientalmente sostener las comunidades rurales. El fundador/ director de Mwanzo en Loyce Ong'udi, becado por Harry Truman de la Universidad de Washington donde ella estudio liderazgo en desarrollo para la administracion con fines de lucro. Loyce esta usando su educacion e historia en desarrollo internacional con fines de lucro para proveer con agua a zonas rurales en Kenya, asi como a otras comunidades cercanas. Loyce esta facilitando medios de irrigacion a regiones de Kenya diezmando por SIDA.

Para aprender mas acerca de su trabajo, por favor visitar Mwanzo Proud Farmers.

"El Libro Acerca de la Muerte" busca patrocinadores que cubran los gastos de la exhibicion el la Galeria Quetzalcoatl para asistir a Mwanzo y traer vida a Kenya rural. Donaciones se pueden hace por medio de:

Almendra Sandoval
QUETZALCOATL GALLERY
3209 Beacon Ave S
Seattle, WA 98144
informacion: almendra@almendrasandoval.com

Almendra Sandoval, Gallerist and Artist
OPEN ART CALL FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST EXHIBITION " A BOOK ABOUT DEATH SEATTLE"