What is ACEO?

Up until a few years ago there was no such thing as an ACEO. There was and still is however, the ATC or Artists Trading Card. As the name suggests they are miniature works of art (the same size as an ACEO and standard trading cards) which artists trade among themselves. A sort of business card which showcases their abilities among the art world.

It was only very recently (in 2004) that an artist called Lisa Luree (Ebay ID: bone*diva) realised the general public were missing out on fantastic miniature masterpieces and decided to make ATCs available for sale. Since Artist Trading Cards are only for trading purposes, a new name was needed and so the ACEO was born.

The only limit is
your imagination!

One way of displaying your ACEO is to frame it and hang it on a wall. The example to the left is of one of my ACEOs in a wooden frame with 2 mounts.

There are a lot of different styles of frame available on the market to choose from, and recently a lot of smaller sized frames have started to emerge....Or maybe I've just never noticed them before! There's oak, metal, plastic, glass, thin, deep, wide, bevelled. Frames which display 1, 2, 3, 4, or even 9 together! Of course it's entirely up to you how you frame them and the possibilities are endless.

If you are an avid collector then framing may not be such a good idea. Eventually you'll run out of wall space so a good idea here would be to frame a few and store the rest in a regular trading card display book or folder.

As ACEOs are the same size as trading cards they are ideal and you can either buy a ring binder and buy the display wallets/sleeves seperately, or buy ready made display books. Either way, both consist of PVC-free plastic pages which can hold 9 ACEOS each.