March 14, 2012
What can be sent?

Visual stuff* and text stuff** (or whatever) to collectivcollection@gmail.com

*Photography, graffiti, paintings, installations, plans, drawings, schematics, mixed media, doodles, tattoos, posters, collages, digital, video, audio, something found, et cetera.

**i.e. essays, instructions, short stories, long stories, lecture notes, plays, musicals, lists, signs, poems, research, presentations, narratives, lyrics, conversations, advice, your family history, detailed accounts of daily life, et cetera, et cetera.

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March 14, 2012
Volume Two (2) - Entries due Mar 28 and Apr 8

Prompt for Volume 2:

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Documentation of a gift.

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Old or new work may be submitted if it can be tied to this idea. Please, pretty please, I’m begging you, refer to the Entry Specs before sending work. 

Pieces can be submitted at any time, but the next definitive due dates are Wednesday March 28, and Sunday April 8, 2012.

February 13, 2012

February 8, 2012
Bigger than the magazine: The reception.

This project is part magazine, part social practice piece. A bound collection of images and words will be enhanced through social engagement.

 A reception will be held for each volume of Collectiv Collection magazine, in an effort to further provoke dialogue and connection. A critique session for that magazine’s submitters will take place an hour or so before the public is invited. Artists will be notified of the date and time of the event, once their submissions are selected.

February 8, 2012
Entry Specifications

Please read and follow these instructions. Please.

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Prompts

Use one prompt per piece. Artists are welcome to apply these to old or new pieces in any way they see fit.

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Recommendation

Along with your pieces, send a recommendationof another person you’d like to see included in future volumes. Include a name and email. 

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Email Subject Line

The email subject line should include your first and last name, and the type of piece(s) being submitted. For example: “John Wayne - essay,” or “Patti Smith - drawing, audio.” If you have to send more than one email, number each subject line of the second, third, and so on.

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Piece Title

The title of each piece should be formatted as such:

  • Your name
  • Title of work
  • The prompt you chose
  • Media (if visual stuff)
  • Size (if visual stuff)
  • Year created

You can include a description or explanation of each work, if relevant. Each attached image or document should be named and saved the same as your typed title. For example, if your painting title is listed as “Archie Bunker, Meat Head, Prompt: John Ruskin, …” then your image should be saved as, “Meat Head,” or “Meat Head painting,” or “Meat Head Bunker,” or something similar.

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Artist Bio

Start it off with your full name, and write it in the third person. (Some things you can include, if you so choose: age, location, education, interests, hobbies, job, brief history, awards, accolades, favorite food, what you want to be when you grow up, spirit animal, favorite color, least favorite word, family tree, or anything else that would better illuminate where your work is coming from.)

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Each submitter is asked to give a small donation to supplement the cost of printing. Consider with how many people you’d like to share this publication.

February 8, 2012
Volume One (1) Prompts

1.    Describe a location.

2.    Sign and signifier

3.    An atmosphere

4.    A different variety of monster

5.    Parts of a whole

6.    Hierarchy

7.    Something elaborate, something gilded

8.    Winning the pennant

9.    Less is more is less.

10. Come ‘ere.

11. You can flip it on its head.

12. Visual semantics

13. “But,” she said, “It’s unfinished.”

14. John Ruskin

15. The Way Things Work


You can use a piece you’ve already made, or create something new to fit with a prompt.

Volume One entries due by Sunday, February 19, 2012.

January 9, 2012
Who? Me?

Do you have something good to share? 

Are you full of ideas, but don’t have a reason to record them? 

Do you want to create, but feel you are being restricted or confined? 

Do you want a chance to connect to people in your community? 

Would you like a challenge?

Do you want to try something new?