This is a fun pic!

Hi Candace!I'm the last one to carve in Laura Berman's group. I'll be sending the cube tomorrow (Tuesday, August 26th) and you should receive it by next week. It's a couple of days late, so thanks for being patient. I loved being involved! It was fun...I can't wait to get the prints. :) Enjoy the picture of the cube featuring my side!Estrella Payton

5 NEW CUBES printed!

Cube #4 Both Sides of the Street
Story Sources: By Diane Lefer, The Sun April 2008
Artists: Stefanie Dykes (UT), Catherine Mataisz (UT), Randy Hankins (UT), Joey Behrens (UT), Erik Brunvand (UT), Sandy Brunvand (UT)

Members of Saltgrass Printmakers http://www.saltgrassprintmakers.org/

Cube # 9 It's Official: Caribbean Monk Seal is Extinct
Story Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25007277
Artists: Melanie Yazzie (CO), C.Maxx Stevens (CO), Maggie Goat (OK), Triston Myna Baldwin (AZ)

Cube #12 How to Feed the World

Story Souce: Newsweek, May 10, 2008

Artists: Angela Katona-Batchelor (ID), Nicole Herden (ID), Dan Scott (ID), Deb Yensen (ID), Elizabeth Kidd (ID), Kirsten Furlong (ID)

Cube #39 Biological from the Artificial

Story Source: Art in America clipping April 2008
Artists: Margaret A.Craig (TX), Molly Branton (TX), Paula Cox(TX), Dinah Coakely(TX), Nicole Geary (TX), Matthew Clark (PA)

Cube #67 Developing Safe Water, Developing Communities

Story Source: http://water.org/

Artists: Susan Paredes (WA), John Fiala (WA), Dan Barnett (WA), Arvid Anderson (WA), Maurene Smith (WA), Sue Stewart (WA)

CUBE 39

Candace,
From reading your blog it looks like you are getting some titles and commentary about some of the images you have. Well, mine is called "Humilobite with Pet Trilobite" (pronounced hyou-MEYE-lo-bite). Humilobites are basically transitional creatures between trilobites and humans (like Homo habilis). Except with trilobites. Not apes. Enjoy!

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-Matt.

CUBE 95 "BOMB" Just another week on earth

Bee Cube Almost Done!

hey candace I didn't send this to you before. My side is done.
I want to call it bee architecture, empty house (not empty city).

Mildred Beltre

Dada Masks -Cube #59

Getta' loada' this will ya'..
6 Sides To Every Story (thanx Candace Nicol) brings 600 artists together to carve on the sides of these lil' cubes. Woodblock prints ensue as well as a large international collaborative exhibition.
This video of my cube is the best video of a carved block of wood on Internet right now, you can bank on that one charlie! It has a great soundtrack, the lyrics are precious, please enjoy.
It was based on a story in L A Times about LACountyMuseum
's new collection of old oceanic masks and the influence these designs had on the Dadaists.

UPDATE on CUBE 64

Hi Candace, April and Barbara, this is from Sarah Hauser. I have completed my print (a scan of which is below), "Bee Sanctuary", as part of Cube 64, and will be sending the cube on to Melinda Yale.

Here is a bit of a story about my print:
A month or two before I was contacted by April for this project, I read a teensy article which I found buried in the NY Post. The article is about a Serbian beekeeper who began to build monasteries for his bees because he decided that "bees have a soul too".
I saved the article, taping it to my bathroom mirror, knowing that some art would come forth from it at some point.
When April told me about this project, I felt that this article related to her original article, and so my print, "Bee Sanctuary", is really a response to both articles.

Below you will see my article. I have enclosed a hard copy of that plus a more detailed version of the story which I found on the Internet, along with a proof of my print, etc in the box with the cube and other materials.

all the best
Sarah Hauser

FROM: APRIL VOLLMER

That is too strange! I was so surprised when I found a beehive in Belgrade that was a miniature (4 feet tall) version of one of the most important Serbian Orthodox churches (in Kosovo)! It was in St. Mark's church in downtown Belgrade. All the monasteries in the countryside were surrounded by bee hives and sold honey, propolis and wax candles.
I think there is a bee-goddess at work here! The Minoans had bee priesteses called "Melissae" so it is very ancient. It is also strange that Melissa Potter has that name! She was a fulbright scholar in Serbia several times, and has been very helpful to me in understanding Serbia.