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What are art cards? In the simplest of terms, art cards are small format, miniature pieces of art. They are paintings, drawings, collages, handmade prints, altered art, assemblages... they come in most any medium, in any style, from anywhere in the world.
And they all have only one thing in common... art cards are 2.5" x 3.5" (64 x 89 mm) in size.
The 2 Flavors of Art Cards
All art cards are basically one of two "flavors":1. ATC (artist trading card)
2. ACEO (art cards, editions and originals.)
The method by which one obtains an art card is the distinguishing factor:
· Generally, ATCs are only traded, never sold.
· ACEOs are sold by artists.
There has been much controversy over the emergence of the ACEO, with many artists believing that art cards should never be sold.
ACEO artists argue that any form of art can be sold, and trading amongst artists excludes the public at large (non-artists.)
No matter which side of the acronymn issue you prefer, the popularity of both ATCs and ACEOs is undeniable. Both collectible and affordable, it looks like art cards, in either flavor, are here to stay.
ATC | History
Art cards can be dated back to the 16th century when artists created miniature portraits. ATCs didn't emerge as an art movement until the late 1990's, however.
The modern version was born when Swiss artist M.Vanci Stirnemann, inspired by watching sports fans trade hockey cards, produced 1200 art cards by hand in 1996. His handmade cards led to the first exhibition and swap of artist trading cards in Zurich, in 1997. Visitors were encouraged to make their own cards, and they were traded during the reception. A monthly trading session has continued to take place at INK.art&text since that show.
One of those in attendance of the exhibition in Zurich was Canadian artist Don Mabie, who subsequently brought the ATC movement back with him to North America.
ATCs have enjoyed a steady rise in popularity since then and are now created and traded globally.
ATC Rules
1. An ATC must be 2.5" x 3.5" in size.
2. An ATC must be traded, never sold.
3. There are no other rules.
Artist Trading Cards: An Anthology of ATCs
This new book from the publisher of Somerset Studio includes over 500 images of artist trading cards. The book features cards of many different styles, materials and themes.Purchase the book for $18.95 directly from the publisher, or see a list of stores that carry the book.
ATC | Resources > General Info
- Small Canvases
- Excellent article on ATCs from Carrie Mercer of the Minneapolis Observer
- Art in your Pocket: ATCs
- This article is both a primer and an idea bank intended for those who wonder what an ATC is and how to make one.
- atc - artist trading cards
- A collabortive cultural performance
- Ed's Artist Trading Cards
- Introduction to ATCs from Ed Beals
- LisaVollrath.com » Artist Trading Card Basics
- Lisa Vollrath's info on ATCs
- about ATCs
- ATC info from The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
- Artist trading cards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wikipedia entry for artist trading cards.
- Trish Bee Design
- Artist Trading Cards - An Introduction To Exploring ART In MiniatureBy Trish Bayley
- Artist Trading Card Exhibition UK
- The First International Artists Trading Card Exhibition UK
- Cryptic Creativity Projects
- A guide for beginners
- Online Art Magazine - How To: Artist Trading Cards
- An ATC how-to from EBSQ (hey, that rhymes!)
- Google Blog Search - Artist Trading Cards
- Thousands of blogs about ATCs
For the art card enthusiast's bookshelf:
Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap
Amazon Price: $15.40 (as of 05/11/2008)
Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More
Amazon Price: $13.37 (as of 05/11/2008)
Visual Chronicles: The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals, Creative Manifestos and Altered Books
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 05/11/2008)
The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery : Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More
Amazon Price: $14.73 (as of 05/11/2008)
Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond The Unexpected
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 05/11/2008)
ATC | Resources > Groups & Swaps
- Artist Trading Cards (atcards.com)
- Artist Trading Card Forums is a dedicated discussion board for Artist Trading Card enthusiasts. Join us in the forums to discuss ATCs, meet great people with similar interests, upload pictures in our photo gallery, chat with other members, and set up some trades!
- ATCSociety
- Yahoo group for swaps
- Project ATC
- Project ATC aspires to raise cultural awareness, promote ATC artists and facilitate ATC trading worldwide.
- ATCs @ art-e-zine
- The official art-e-zine artist trading cards swap - great gallery of cards!
- ATC Quarterly
- ATC Quarterly: A journal for artist trading card (ATC) enthusiasts. Connect with ATCers beyond your local trading group. Share ATC information, techniques and ideas. Published four times a year in Dunvegan, Ontario, Canada.
- artisttradingcards
- Yahoo ATC swap group with 2700 members
- ATC Exchange
- Artist Trading Card Exchange (MSN group) is a web community of artist trading card creators, collectors and just plain enthusiasts. The members of this global community create and trade Artist Trading Cards.
- ATC World
- Yahoo group with over 900 members
- TracyRoos.com ATC Swap
- A gallery from Tracy Roos's swap. You can contact the artists directly who participated, if you're interested in swapping with them.
- Bmuse Art Swaps Directory
- A directory of current and past art swaps and contests at Bmuse.
- Artella's Collaborative Art Projects Database
- A comprehensive listing of current swaps, trades, round-robins, and other collaborative art projects, hosted by a variety of organizing individuals and groups.
Featured Lensmaster - Lisa Vollrath
Lisa Vollrath is a well-known, prolific mixed media artist who shares a wealth of information from her art expertise via her web site, published articles, and (wouldn't you know it?) Squidoo.Check out Lisa's:
lenses | website | how-tos | ATC how-tos
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Check out ATCs, ACEOs, and more art card info at these other great Squidoo lenses.- Sharon Foster Art - Paintings, ACEOs and Prints
- Altered Art Techniques & Tools
- Art Cards, Editions and Originals
- Art by Shannon W.
- ACEOS - Fun to Collect & Create ~~~ Fine Art Cards ~~ ATC2
- Artist Trading Cards
- How-To: Fabric Collage and ATCs
- ATCs - Exploring Art in Miniature
- ACEOs are Artist Trading Cards with a price tag
- Your Art Online
ACEO | History
In late 2004, the eBay ACEO Group was born. Artist Lisa Luree started the eBay group and invited members of the Art & Artists dicussion board.
Immediately joined by about 100 artists, the ACEO group has flourished as the movement took on a life of its own. Today there are over 3,000 members!
Essentially, the ACEO was born on eBay. As the movement has gained in popularity, ACEOs are now being sold on artists' individual websites, as well as several other online venues.
ACEO Rules
1. ACEOs must be 2.5" x 3.5" in size.
2. ACEOs must adhere to copyright laws.
3. There are no other rules.
(Not a rule, but generally ACEOs are sold, whereas ATCs are traded only.)
Start, or add to, your art card collection!
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ACEO | Resources
- ACEO eBay Group
- The original ACEO group at eBay, now with over 3,000 members.
- Art Card Auctions - LJ Community
- Community I started at LJ, where artists posts links to their ACEOs on auction or for sale online.
- ATC & ACEO Enthusiasts - eBay Group
- An eBay group for ATC and ACEO artists and collectors
- ACEO auctions on eBay
- Buy or sell ACEOs on eBay
- ArtCardsWanted.com
- Buy, sell or trade ACEOs on this relatively new site
- ACEO listings at ArtByUs.com
- Buy or sell ACEOs at ArtByUs.com
- Etsy
- Buy or sell ACEOs on Etsy.com
- ACEO in eBay's The Chatter Newsletter
- A featured article in the March 2006 edition of eBay's The Chatter Newsletter - read more about the art movement born on eBay.
- ACEO - Art Cards for Sale or Trade
- Home of ACEO, Art Cards, Editions and Originals
- Google Blog Search - ACEO
- Thousands of blogs about ACEOs
Shameless Self-Promotion
Not only do I collect art cards, I create them too. I also create original paintings, mixed media pieces, functional art, crafts, scribbles for hanging on the refrigerator...
You can view a gallery of my work and read more about my art, techniques, and silly web adventures at my web site - monicamoody.com.
My current addiction besides Squidoo is my female-targeted DIY blog, thefixchicks.com. The Fix Chicks site is about 5 years old but has recently been revamped to become part of the Blogosphere. Topics cover a little of everything, with focus on home improvement, decorating and design, and product reviews.
You can also find me at these places:
Below are examples of some of the art cards I have created. Most of my cards are on 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper or other heavy card stock, and were done with Sharpie markers, acrylic paints, Prismacolor pencils and acrylic mediums.
girl with lollipop
evil-eye
girl with sugar skul...
dancing thoughts
hendrix
what may bloom?
sad frida
mental growth
tiki monster 2
More for the Art Card Enthusiast's Bookshelf
Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book)
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 05/11/2008)
CREATIVE LICENSE, THE: GIVING YOURSELF PERMISSION TO BE THE ARTIST YOU TRULY ARE
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 05/11/2008)
Trading Cards Techniques & ATCs, Artist Trading Cards (Design Originals)
Amazon Price: (as of 05/11/2008)
Art Stamping Workshop: Create Hand-Carved Stamps for Unique Projects on Paper, Fabric, Polymer Clay and More
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 05/11/2008)
Let's Play Cards: How To Turn Playing Cards Into Art
Amazon Price: $13.46 (as of 05/11/2008)
ATC/ACEO | Resources > Projects
- How To Get 10 ATCs From One Piece Of Cardstock
- Cutting diagram from Lisa Vollrath
- Simple ATC Books
- ATC book project from Lisa Vollrath
- Simple Folded ATC
- Make a folded ATC - tips from Lisa Vollrath
- Collage Techniques Vellum - Artist Trading Cards
- Step-by-step instructions from B-Muse
- ARTchix Studio: CREATE: Free Class: Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards
- Detailed instructions to create two great ATCs
- ARTchix Studio: CREATE: Free Class: Fabric Artist Trading Card
- Details on how to make a fabric ATC
- ARTchix Studio: CREATE: Free Class: Burning Artist Trading Cards
- Give your ATC a unique look with this technique
- ATCards.com - Templates
- Cutting diagram, swap forms and ATC envelope templates
- The Stampers' Sampler
- ATC holder template
- Mirkwood Designs - Artist Trading Card Envelope
- Template for an ATC envelope
- Framing Original Small Format Artworks
- A great guide (on eBay) to framing ATCs and ACEOs, from artist Kim Niles of KiniArt.
ATC/ACEO | Resources > Supplies
- Dick Blick Art Materials
The best place to order all your art supplies online, don'tcha know? Great selection and prices, easy shopping, fast shipping, and excellent customer service.- Bmuse - ATC Supplies
- Bmuse offers ATC-sized bingo cards, pre-cut quality papers ("ATC blanks"), protective sleeves and more. Bmuse also has some great ephermera available.
- Teesha Moore: Collage Sheets
- One of my favorite artists, Teesha Moore offers some really amazing collage sheets.
- Teesha Moore: Zettiology Rubber Stamps
- Yikes. I've spent HOURS just looking at these awesome images. Even if you don't buy any (and you should), it's fun to stare at them.
- Theo Ellsworth: Rubber Stamps
- Theo's images are available as rubber stamps from Teesha Moore's site.
- The Tattered Circus - vintage circus collage sheets
- Really cool if you're into that sorta thing (I am!)
- The Tattered Circus - rubber stamps
- More fun from The Tattered Circus!
ATC/ACEO | Resources > Supplies > eBay
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand byArt Cards: The Great Debate
Apples or oranges? Ford or Chevy? Captain or Tenille?
Much like these age-old questions (with the exception of the last), the debate over whether art cards should be traded only or sold is pretty heated!
What do you think?
ACEOs received their own category on eBay
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Your comments (ratings, diggs, emails, links, favorites adds, praise, love, happy dances and high-fives) are welcome!
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paperfacets
I will need to come back to this lens. The links will need to be explored!!! Posted April 02, 2008 |
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Alternique
Love your lens! From an ATC/ACEO fan (ok, addicted Posted October 04, 2007 |
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Ms_Appleseed
These are wonderful and I love how visual your lens is! Thanks for sharing your talent and this very interesting information! I'm lensrolling you as a great example of marketing art at my SmallTownBiz lens Posted September 14, 2007 |
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kathysart
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artyfax
An extremely comprehensive lens, really worth reading again and again. I have started a lens on aceo's myself after finding squidoo by accident, before I researched what lenses were on here. but I hope to be able to add a personal touch so I will finish what I have started. Posted June 09, 2007 |
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Betty_C_Bowen
writer trading cards would be great. this is going to be my first "favorite lens" - I'm making one on woodcut printing. Posted May 27, 2007 |
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VintageNiki
Great lense! I'm creating a lense all about vintage mixed media collage Posted May 23, 2007 |
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kathysart
Aloha from Hawaii! Posted May 18, 2007 |
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surianee
great! I'm going to lenroll you...check out my ACEO lens too... http://www.squidoo.com/aceo-on-ebay/ Posted May 05, 2007 |
