Artist cards, besides down pat as artist trading cards (ATC), began as "a collaborative cultural performance" in 1996-97 by Swiss artist, M. Vänci Stirnemann. In response to elitist Craft critiques and commercial marketing of Craft, Stirnemann exhibited 1,200 little artworks in a gallery. Everyone artwork was obsessed absent when the parade closed. The non-discriminatory ATC movement rapidly caught dominance. Nowadays the movement continues to build as individuals worldwide fabricate commencing Craft cards and swap them one-for-one nailed down moderate groups.
Instructions
Creating Artist Cards
1. Set an modify congregation. Provided the group meets face-to-face, conclude its assembly diary and hunt for approximately if the batch uses themes in its drudgery. Provided the troop meets online or terminated a mail-in process, verify submission deadlines and ask about the use of themes. Some specialty groups create editions of multiple cards to exchange.
2. Select a "ground" for the artist card. Materials like card-stock, poster board or tagboard provide superior "grounds" for artist cards. These materials are easy to chop, offer durability and have good work surfaces.
3. A neatly cut ground contributes to a better finished product.5. Choose art supplies to draw, paint or collage the ATC. Since the intent is to avoid both elitist critical review and the marketing of art, do not spend an extraordinary amount of time designing each card.
Use a ruler and pencil to carefully measure and lightly draw a 2.5-inch by 3.5-inch rectangle on the ground material. This standard artist card measurement fits plastic trading card sleeves and most trading card storage boxes.4. Use sharp scissors or a paper cutter to chop out the rectangle.
If assembling a collage, the thickness should not impede storage in a plastic trading card sleeve nor should the collage extend beyond the card's surface area.
6. Write your name, the date and title of the ATC on the back of the card before swapping it. Some artists like to add the city or country of origin or cite the medium used. Other artists add personal notes, a line of poetry or a brief quote that further explains the artwork.
