Free Art Exchange
project overview DRAFT by Doug Millison
The core concept is simple: Free Art!
Free Art Exchange is a grassroots organization that organizes the exchange of art works plus art supplies/raw materials/tools, plus related services (including instruction, classes, lectures) among local artists and the community at large.
The exchange takes place in a shop (part of a larger facility that includes a shared art studio) or other appropriate, available venue where people donate or take as needed:
-art works (all media, all styles, all periods)
-art raw materials
(including paper ephemera like you'd find at garage sales, flea
markets: vintage magazines, posters, post cards, etc., that artists and
artisans often use in projects)
--art supplies/tools/equipment: paint, brushes, paper, canvas, frames, etc.
Customers donate what they don't want or need, take what they want for free.
In addition to this free give and take, Free Art Exchange encourages barter arrangements among artists who wish to provide goods/services to each other or with the public.
The shop includes space to exhibit and sell a curated selection of the donated art works/= and other goods.
Free Art Exchange organizes events, at the shop or elsewhere in the community, to include:
-exchange of art works, raw materials, supplies, tools
-art exhibits
-sales of curated art works; selected supplies & raw materials
-classes/lessons/lectures (offered on cash or barter basis)
-food (local retailers, restaurants, pop-up restaurant, food trucks, caterers)
-arts performance (music, dance, comedy, other performing arts)
-parties, dances
[This draft begun February 2012 as Bay Area Free Art Exchange (BAFAE)
This page is also the destination for http://FreeArtExchange.org, http://LittleFreeJukebox.com, and http://LittleFreeJukebox.org]
