6sides2every story

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Cube 44 Earth Day…"we have met the enemy, and HE is US."

Hi Candace..
Here are the pictures I took. I'm not very good at photos! The fish is mine and the car with trash thrown out is # 1 person, I believe. The hand with trash in air is # 2.... I don't have their names. Bye for now, Brigid

Walla Walla Cloning

Dear Candace,

Enclosed are the images from our cube. Finally. There is one more
side to carve which will be done today and I will have the cube over-
nighted to you tomorrow. Thank you so much for allowing us to
participate in this project.

Best,

Dawn

Cube Subject: Genetics

"Clone on the Range" by Malynda Poulsen-Jones

"Primordial Stew" by Margaret Jamison

"Knick Knack Paddy Whack- Give the Dog a Clone" by Lisa Rasmussen

"The Better to Ear You With, Dear Mouse" by Dawn Forbes

"Wonder Y" by Susa Roberts

"Knowledge" by Kynde Kiefel

Monday, December 1, 2008

DEAR ARTISTS:

Dear 6sides2every story Artist:

Here is you print from the cube you carved on. I would like to say thank you very much for participating in this project and I hope you are as excited as me with the progress of 6sides so far. We have a long way to go to finish the project. Here is the timeline:

TIMELINE:
April 1, 2008 – Project Announced, blog up and running, collating and sending out cubes
May 1, 2008 – Website up and running, participants working on cubes, continue recruiting new participants across the nation
December 31, 2008- Remaining cubes should be carved and sent back to Candace
January-February Working on printing cubes and printing up the larger prints for framing
February 15, 2009 - All prints ready for installation and portfolio
February 28, 2009- Participant book of stories and images sent to publisher
March 1, 2009- Installation and Exhibition proposals ready to send out to potential shows

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Sierra Arts and Nevada Arts Council. Both these agencies have given us grant money to finish the project and to help with the cost of shipping, printing, and framing of the large portfolio pieces. If you have some time, please could you email them and thank them for their sponsorship? The project might not have happened without that funding. Here are the email addresses:

Jill Berryman, Executive Director, Sierra Arts jill@sierra-arts.org
Susan Boskoff, Executive Director, Nevada Arts Council sboskoff@nevadaculture.org

Keep checking the blog and the website for new developments and for exhibition whereabouts and dates…..

Hugs to you all!
Xoox
c

Current INFO on 6sides2every story

TITLE:
6sides2every story
International collaboration of artists and printmakers
www.6sides2everystory.com http://6sides2everystory.blogspot.com/
Organized by Candace Nicol, Reno, NV

6sides2every story essentially is a social experiment involving 600+ artists from around the world. Each artist is carving one side of a wooden cube and then I am acting as the master printmaker, printing editions to be sent back to each participant. The project will highlight the inherent democracy that printmaking gives to artists of all levels: Professionals, amateurs, non-printmakers, mentors and students will all contribute to the project. The purpose of this project is to connect artists from different backgrounds and places.

CONTACT:
info@candacenicol.net or cnicol@tmcc.edu
www.candacenicol.com

6sides2every story represents a collaboration that illuminates the artist/printmaker relationship and printmaking’s inherent collaboration characteristic. By sharing a cube consisting of the same story, some artists will connect with each other in their communities, while others will share one story with strangers in other places. Participants will respond to one another’s marks, their visual images and the initial story. There is a tremendous amount of trust needed between each of the artists working on cubes and between myself (the printmaker) and every participant giving up their substrate with the understanding that all sides will be printed together and they each will receive a print. Each image/story and participant will also come together in what will be a virtual community via unique website - www.6sides2everystory.com and a blog - http://6sides2everystory.blogspot.com/.

MORE DETAILS: (initial project)
6sides2every story is a collaboration that starts with an individual artist carving a side of a wooden cube. The first person has to clip a phrase from a newspaper, magazine, or internet, and carve a visual narrative on one side of the cube. (The cube is provided by Candace Nicol) The first person can also organize a group of artists within his/her community that will work together on the cube. This is NOT a requirement, though. Many artists that are starting the cube are sending it back to Candace Nicol. The stories are posted on the web and emailed to potential carvers. This method will allow for the movement of cubes across the country. When one artist is done, he/she will give the cube to another person along with the clipping. Each person responds to the clipping and to the previous marks carved into the cube. Artists do not have to be printmakers. They just have to be willing to participate and to carve the cube in a timely manner. There is no fee, but each person needs to either hand the cube to someone in his/her community or be willing to send the cube to another person outside of his/her community; and at the end, send it back to Candace for printing. Once the cube is finished, Candace will print an edition of 8. Each participant will receive a print with all 6 sides of the story. Blocks will be printed on 8”x10” paper.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Greetings from Scotland

Aine Scannell organized this cube in Scotland (Note from Candace --- I didn't know which direction the character went... probably lost in translation?)

Below is Aine's summary of this article she found on the website called “China Now”

XIN HANZI (her title extracted from main article)

Written Chinese, is made up of 55,000 ideographs (hanzi).
Lu Hsun, (a key proponent of the New Writing movement of the 1930s.) called for a “Latinized” vernacular phonetic system to replace these. What he wanted to see was a language system that was truly democratic and not something that had been until then, as he saw it, the preserve of the elite.

Chinese characters have been reformed, reorganized, re-numbered, regulated, restricted and simplified., resulting in the language format that is taught in primary education in China today.

Jiao Yingqi, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Art, says “the Chinese written language has become more accessible. but the basic composite elements of Chinese characters are increasingly archaic, inflexible and poorly equipped for the 21st century.”

The approximately 55,000 extant Chinese characters are based on root components known as “radicals” (pianpang bushou in romanized Chinese). These 189 ideographs include archaic representations such as man, woman, tree, water, soil, rock, sky, heart, field, roof, dish, tiger, bamboo, bird, metal, hand and foot.

To address the gulf between China’s writing system and the post-Modern world, Jiao has embarked on a personal and theoretical project he calls New Characters (Xin Hanzi). Via a trial-and-error process that tightly integrates his artistic, design and theoretical interests, he has thus far created 32 new radicals.

ARTISTS: Aine Scannell, Alison Leeper, Catherine King, Clare Yarrington, Maria Ginnerup, Sheila Carnduff

And Even More!

Cube #83 The Juarez Murders
Original News Source: By Debbie Nathan, Amnesty Magazine www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/juarez.html
Artists:
L.T. Hammett (CO), Eric Macdin (CO), Pui Yu Esther Au (CO), Emily Schmidt-Beuchat (CO), Audrey Schaiberger (CO), Lauren Brasher (CO)

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Cube #81 The Juarez Murders
Original News Source: By Debbie Nathan, Amnesty Magazine www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/juarez.html
Artists:
Stephan Sanchez (CO), Courtney Pulver (CO), Christina I. Smith (CO), Whitney Burns (CO), Sam Scruby (CO), Dana Crary (CO)

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Cube #68 In the Platypus Genome, an Odd Map of Evolution
Original News Source: By Rick Weiss, Washington Post, May 8, 2008
Artists:
Rebecca McCannell (OR), Sue Mason (OR), Jennifer Gimsewski (OR), Harold Mason (OR), Diane Tarter (OR), Elaina LaBoda Jamieson (OR)

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Cube #42 Burka Barbie
Original News Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/29/iran.barbie.ap/index.html
Artists:
Maria Partridge (NV), Susan Moore (NV), Naomi Nickerson (NV), Vicki LoSasso (NV), Lola Winckelmann (NV)