Cloth Paper Scissors is having a contest titled Artisan Search 2011. No, my five year old isn't entering, but I think he's got a pretty good shot in another 15 years don't you? He made this collage for my mom for her birthday. I tried to convince him to give it to me... but it went home with grandma the other night.
Back to the contest details: They have five categories, Mixed Media stitch,Collage and Assemblage, Art journals and Bookmaking , Printmaking and Silk Screening, and Mixed Media Jewelry. Entries are to be received by
September 13th in the form of digital photos. You can submit three works of art per category, and enter multiple categories. However, you would only be selected as a semi-finalists in one of the category submissions. There will be five semi-finalists per category. There's more to the contest information, you can see it
here. But I got to thinking about this.
I can think, off the top of my head, several of you who I think should enter. Again, what do you have to lose? AND even better- what do you have to gain? Your work would garner national attention, you could tell your friends and family (they might be impressed-but maybe not),
but best of all, you'll have made three works of art minimum that you might not have had the impetus to create before and they could be your most favorite pieces ever. PLUS it might be just the challenge you need to bring your art to a new level. Just something to think about....
- This will do it! I have them up in my own home and LOVE them. They will come in a set of three, and in your choice of black, distressed cream, or rust colored. 
They hang on a simple finishing nail and will go anywhere. I have them grouped around a piece of art, but they would easily go in a line across the top of a mirror, down that little tiny thin piece of wall you have in your hall, or scattered above the headboard of your little girl.
