Contact Information

• Please make sure that you are keeping your business cards and any promotional material in stock and only in your space (not spread around the building). Please update your Artist Catalog to include contact information - your email address, a website, a phone number. Visitors are trying to contact artists wishing to purchase their art but they can't find any information on how to contact them. Don't lose out on a potential sale or opportunity! Keep those business card holders full!

DeInstallation

• Reminder: Artwork can NOT leave Artomatic until after the event closes. This is written in the Terms & Conditions that all artists agreed to. Please do not remove any artwork before the show closes. Artwork can only be removed during Deinstallation - which begins on Tuesday, June 17th (new date) and ends Sunday, June 29th.
  Deinstallation hours:
  Tues,Wed & Thursdays: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
  Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays: Noon - 10 p.m.
  
  Volunteers are needed for deinstallation on Tuesdays, if you still need to complete your volunteer obligation shifts on June 17th and 24th have been added.

Art In Fashion Volunteers

• The Art In Fashion show grows bigger every day, and we are going to need extra volunteers helping set up as well as working the night of the show. Extra shifts have been added to the volunteer calendar, if you'd like to help out please sign up! http://www.artomatic.org/volunteer

The first-ever Artomatic 500 was a smashing success! Wondering who won? Read the write-up here (http://www.artomatic.org/artomatic500), or watch the movie clip! (http://flickr.com/photos/13038750@N03/2543225735/)

Planning meeting, model call for Art in Fashion on June 4

Ever wanted to be a model? Now’s your chance! An open “model call” for Artomatic’s upcoming Art in Fashion event will be held Wednesday, June 4. Artomatic participants are particularly sought to serve as models, and no prior modeling experience is necessary. Don’t miss your chance to show off your style and strut your stuff at Artomatic!

Want to help out or take part in the fashion show in another way? Then come to the show’s planning meetings. We’d love to hear your ideas and get you involved.

“Think dramatic, artistic, creative and even crazy,” said event organizer Mac Traore. “We want the ‘wow effect."

The Art in Fashion model call and planning meeting will be held in the first floor Electric Stage on Wednesday, June 4, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Art in Fashion will be held Saturday, June 14, at Artomatic. The fire-themed event, to be held from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., will bring together models, designers, photographers and artists. Costume and fashion design is sought, as well as performance art, dance, mime, hair design, body piercing, body paint and tattoo art.

Take part in the show or just make plans to attend. For full details, e-mail artinfashion@artomatic.org.

• Friday, June 6th at 8 p.m. presents the DC premiere of "Craigslist! The Musical!" Thrill as the DC Burner Choir tunefully exposes the sordid underbelly of the world of online classifieds ... in song! Not for children or the squeamish

• Beginning at 10 p.m. this Friday and Saturday night, the Cabaret Stage turns into a nightclub. Let our DJs make you shake your booty.

The Marketplace

• It's our Artomatic art fair! 27 of our Artomatic visual artists will set up and sell their creations in a marketplace-style setting near the Cabaret lounge on the first floor. Visitors can choose from a wide variety of media including sculpture, painting, photography, mixed media, masks, ceramics and paper crafts. This is the only time during Artomatic that visitors can buy art and bring it straight home, so if you need an urgent art fix, this is the place!
  Saturday, June 7, Noon - 5p.m., Cabaret, 1st Floor.

Highlights of the free live performances and activities to be held throughout the weekend:

Friday, June 6: Flights of Fire; Contradiction Dance; Tango Dancing by Milonga; music by Evan Bliss & The Welchers; and the Spooky Movie Festival.

Saturday, June 7: Free photography workshop and children’s workshop on making Peeps dioramas; Street Dance All-Stars; Improvisational Comedy by YAP and 5-6-7-8; PDF Fire Enclave; Libertine Burlesque; and music by Hypnotic Gurus, Free Lobster Buffet, Legs Diamond and others.

Sunday, June 8: Kids vs. Parents Art Challenge workshop; Jukebox Movies; music by The Druthers and Uninterrupted; and more.

This Thursday, University of Maryland faculty, students and alumni will read from their recent work, 7-9p.m. in the SpeakEasy on the 8th floor!

Calling all writers! Did you not get around to scheduling time to read in the SpeakEasy? Did you read and want to do it again? Have some work-in-progress you want to try out on the crowd? Now’s your chance! Come by Artomatic’s Open Mic Night in The SpeakEasy this Friday the 6th, 9-11p.m. Sign up sheets will be available at The SpeakEasy on the 8th floor. All are welcome!

Stop by the SpeakEasy on Saturday the 7th for a night of continuous poetry and spoken word! 6p.m. to midnight.

Alexei Tsvetkov, will read Friday, June 6th at 7:45 p.m.
Alexei is a Russian poet and essayist with numerous books published in Russia. He also writes in English, and he will read Russian translations and poetry in English. His most recent collection of poems is Names of Love (Novoe izdatelstvo, 2007), and he is a winner of the Russia's first independent literary prize, the Andrei Bely Prize. Alexei will be great. Sample him mulling over “stalking ostriches, the hot new generation of Russian poets, and the greatest Czech ever” on Poetry Magazine’s website.


Calling Artomatic Poets!

Ekphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic description of a work of art. Ekphrastomatic 2008 is a poem being constructed by Artomatic poet Matt Solomon about Artomatic and made by all of us. Submit as many times as you like to ekphrastomatic2008@gmail.com by June 13 to be part of the poem read the night of June 14.

How: For every artwork or performance that moves you (to love, to hate, etc), list the artist name, title of art and location, and your impression in one of the following forms:

• Three nouns
• Three noun-verb pairs or
• A three-line stanza of poetry

Can't make a volunteer shift? Let us know!

If you have signed up for a volunteer shift and find you can't make it, be sure and let us know in advance. We may be able to find you a shift on another day. In a pinch, you can also send someone responsible to serve your shift for you. If you have shift problems or questions, send us an e-mail at volunteer@artomatic.org.

But please don't leave us high and dry -- this weekend quite a few folks failed to show up, which left us in a bind. Anyone who skips their shift without notifying us first may be asked to serve two additional shifts and artists that fail to meet their required volunteer hours will be banned from future artomatics -- and we'd hate to lose you!

Help keep our community arts event going!

Friday, June 6
9:00p.m. – 2:00a.m.
Milonga (Tango) Dance Event

Saurday, June 7
11:00p.m.-11:50p.m.
Hypnotic Gurus features a lineup of accomplished musicians who complete the sonic tapestry with sitar, pakawaj, sarangi, harmonium, tabla, khol, tanpura, bamboo flute, as well as western instruments such as guitar, bass and drums.

Local artist Frank Warren, the talent behind the well-known PostSecret project, will be signing copies of his books at Artomatic.

Launched at Aromatic in November 2004, PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. About 200,000 secrets have been shared. PostSecret has attracted interest from around the world, and the project’s Web site, www.PostSecret.com has been visited by millions.

Copies of one of Warren’s best selling books, which contain images of some of the many postcards he has received, will be available for purchase during the Artomatic signing events. All proceeds from the book sales benefit Artomatic.

The PostSecret signings will take be held in the Artomatic’s 11th floor store on:

• Friday, June 6 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., and
• Friday, June 13, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Visitors to Artomatic can also watch a video presentation of some of the PostSecret postcards Warren has received in the Artomatic Film and Video Theater, which is located on the ninth floor. The videos will be shown before and after the two book signings.

Artomatic 11th floor Mock Formal Party!

• WHEN – Friday the 13th
• WHERE -- The 11th floor, our favorite floor
• TIME -- 9 p.m. – 2 a.m.

What is a "mock" formal you ask? - Dress up. Dress funky. Pair some rhinestones and heels with a t-shirt and jeans or recycle an old bridesmaid dress. Basically get creative (and we know you can!).

So, come by and celebrate the end of the show with your fellow floor neighbors. Get to know each other (if you haven't already). Everyone is invited! Bring all of your friends, and artists from other floors too, and party on the floor we all know and love. (Remember no outside alcohol, but not to worry, we have the bar on our floor!)

Floors 4-10 & 12 - feeling left out? Organize your own Special Party for your floor! Two weeks left!

Thursday, June 12, 2008, 7:30 - 10:00p.m., 12th Floor
rsvp@capitolpechakucha.org

Pecha Kucha Night was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world.

The West Elm-furnished lounges at this year’s Artomatic have really helped class up the event. Now you can bring some of that stylish vibe home at bargain prices.

Artomatic will be auctioning off all the furniture from the West Elm-furnished lounges, with bids starting at half-off retail. The pieces include sofas, lamps, coffee tables and rugs. Stop by the lounges to check out the full selection.

The auction is only for West Elm furniture at the event, and all furniture is sold as is. Auction forms and signs go up this week and bidding closes on the last day of Artomatic, June 15. Look for auction forms at each West Elm Lounge. Great deals are to be had!