What Are Artists Trading Cards?
Artist Trading Cards–or ATCs– are miniature works of art created on 2. 5" x 3. 5" card stock, the size of sports trading cards. All techniques are allowed and anybody can produce them. ATCs are signed, dated, and titled on the back then traded away for ATCs made by others. As a general rule, money never exchanges hands and all trades are one-for-one.
A great website for information, examples, and ideas.
http://www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.html
How to make an Artist Trading Card?
Begin with a 2 ½” X 3 ½” rectangle of card stock. ANY AND ALL MATERIALS and techniques are permitted (drawing in pencil, pen, marker, chalk or crayon etc., painting, photographs, sewing, collage, found materials, mixed media -- anything!).
Advanced Formats
The contest entry Artist Trading Cards may also:
- be connected to other ATCs to form an accordion book or similar format
- have flaps, foldouts, projections, or dangles that extend beyond the card size
- be created in a series which connects visually such as a “triptych”*, but will count as one card (in this case please place all parts in an envelop)
* A triptych has three side-by-side parts. They can be hinged panels, with the two outer panels designed so that they can be folded in towards the central one or three separate pieces with an image that is continued from one panel to the next.
Artist Trading Card Links
Great starting places:
What is an Artist Trading Card?
http://www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.html
How-to information and inspiration:
http://www.altered-art.net/make-artist-trading-cards-2.html
http://www.b-muse.com/Collage-Techniques-Dir.HTM
Artist Trading Cards in Education:
Trade cards between classrooms.
http://www.artjunction.org/atcs.php
Learn how one school used ATCs as a family night activity.
http://www.ucarts.com/atc.htm
Galleries:
http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/atcnov03.html
http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/index.html
Supplies for Artist Trading Cards
http://www.youratcstore.com/
Earth Day Links
http://www.eeweek.org/
http://ww2.earthday.net/~earthday/
http://www.worldwildlife.org/earthday2008/
http://network.earthday.net/
http://www.earthsite.org/
http://www.epa.gov/earthday/
http://earthday.wilderness.org/
http://support.nature.org/site/PageServer?pagename=earthday
http://www.earthshare.org/index.html
http://www.envirolink.org/index.html
http://earthday.envirolink.org/guide6.html
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/earthday.shtml
http://www.arborday.org/arborday/?gclid=CL-38JGQqJICFQE1gQoduHkXMg
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