GOOP ON THE GO!

GOOP Gallery is showing it's latest installment at Timothy's Cafe/Gallery, 234 Laurier St. East in Ottawa. Come on down and see your favorite Mail-Artists! Show runs until the end of August.
Tell your friends. The Prime Minister said he's drop by.

CANADIAN MAIL ARTISTS LINK UP

It is Mailart's spirit to correspond through the mail and until recently via internet so very few artists get the opportunity to meet each other "live".

I have had the chance to meet RF CÔTÉ, STEVEN RENALD and DEWI in the past year. It is always a thrill to meet the person behind the Mail Art. Next week I will be meeting PETER DOWKER in his Flip Flop shop. This promises to be very interesting !

Also planned for this summer, a meeting with LORRAINE KWAN and HÉLÈNE LACELLE at her Gallery of Ornamental Post (GOOP) in Ottawa, Ontario.

Chantal Laurin
CAR- CENTRE D'ARTISTES DE RAWDON/ RAWDON ARTISTS CENTER

Our first SMALL Collaboration ...

CAR and MOOP are happy to announce their first joint show at the MOOP ...

Destination: Toronto. Le 7 mai sera le premier départ du CAR vers la galerie MOOP. L'exposition de photographies de JEAN LUC CAVELLEC y sera présentée tout le mois de mai pour le festival Contact.

Destination: Toronto. May 7th will be CAR's first trip and it will be heading to the MOOP Gallery. JEAN LUC CAVELLEC's photography exhibit will be shown throughout the month of May to honour Toronto's photography festival Contact.

A Day at the SPA

LIMBO WITH ME BUDDHA
Wonderful artwork from around the world is pouring into GOOP. Merci a tout le monde!
This wonderful card is by Roxanne Clark.

Did you know ...

Many of our members offer catalogs of their collections ...

The Museum of Bad Art has published 2 books based on their collection including their latest Masterworks ... http://www.museumofbadart.org/

The Museum of Temporary Art has a big collection of catalogs of small things http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com/thecatalogues.html

and the Main Street Museum which uses wiki technology to show their exhibits online .. http://www.mainstreetmuseum.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

The Main Street Museum ...

From the Museum website located in White River Junction, VT http://www.mainstreetmuseum.org/

The Museum forges links and reflects meanings from object to object, from object to viewer, and from the viewer back to the object again.

Assigning values to artifacts is increasingly difficult in the environment of most major collecting institutions. The neutrality of theoretical systems utilized by any museum is currently being called into question. As a small independent repository the Main Street Museum has the flexibility—indeed the mandate—to examine the layered and ever changing meanings of objects and their relationships to their surroundings. As the uses for objects are more or less continuously in flux, we analyze these uses through traditional disciplines (art historical, scientific and qualitative methods), but also through psychological analysis as well. Our emotional relationship with objects is formed abstrusely. Therefore the meaning of objects is unlocked only through similar cryptic means.

We accession items based on the sustained interest that has been shown them and the attentiveness they demonstrate towards us. Perhaps the only true meaning in objects lies in the questions we ask them and in the questions each one of them asks of us.

CAR is flying to MOOP

On May 7th, CAR is taking JEAN LUC CAVELLEC's photo exhibit of the Brittany coast of France to MOOP in Toronto.

This will be the first collaboration, and hopefully not the last, of the two SMALL members.

The exhibit will be held for the month of May.

It would be nice if others would join and create an exhibition circuit.