The MICE 2016 art show features work of over 25 BCR members, in a visual celebration of the group and its history. The work is up at the MICE space:
University Hall, Lesley University
2nd Floor Atrium
1815 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge
JOIN US FOR A RECEPTION: Thursday, October 20th, 5-7 PM!
We had a new face at BCR this past Thursday evening, presenting one of the most unusual (and beautiful) projects that has appeared at a meeting. Aaron Sinift, newly arrived in the Boston area, brought in 2 examples of the books he’s been commissioning and assembling for the past 15 years, and they are unlike any book we’ve ever seen before: screen-printed by crafts-people in India, on cloth bags known as jhola. They feature artwork by Indian artists and cartoonists, as well as by Western artists (a page by Julie Doucet, and one by Yoko Ono!).
The limited edition books are sold to institutions and collectors, with profits going to Doctors Without Borders.
To learn more about this work, please visit http://5yearplan.org/. But here is a snippet from the website about the project:
The project brings together artists, scholars, artisans, poets and thinkers to honor sustainable modes of production. The combined work of all 5 Year Plan participants unites against disposable mass market culture and toward traditional craftsmanship, supporting artisans and artists who have largely been left behind by the global economy.
You never know what you might discover at a BCR Meeting!
No official group table at the Big Show in Bethesda next weekend (9/17-18), but BCR members will be exhibiting: Dan Mazur, Jesse Lonergan, Whit Taylor at table W28, Donna Martinez and Joey Peters at B48, Eunnie Hur at table D58!
UPDATE: Barry Corbett will be at table 91, next to the ATM!
See all the exhbitors at: http://www.smallpressexpo.com/2016-exhibitors
BCR is proud to feature three of our finest at the table (D723) this Saturday at the Boston Comic Con. Catalina Rufin, Doug De Rocher and Joey Peters will be selling their comics, signing & meeting-and-greeting their fans. Be one!
Featured artist schedule, Saturday, August 13th:
1:00-200 pm – Catalina Rufin
2:00-3:00 Doug De Rocher
3:00-4:00 Joey Peters
Come find us this weekend at the BOSTON COMIC CON, located at the teeming Seaport World Trade Center! We’ll be at table D723. (If you can’t find us, just ask Gillian Armstrong, she’s sure to know!) We’ll have all the great BCR books, but most exciting of all… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the WORLD PREMIERE of BCR’s newest anthology, that Kickstarter Sensation, hot off the presses….
Next door at table D724, you’ll find BCR members Dan Mazur and Jesse Lonergan. Jesse will have copies of his trippy sci-fi newsprint masterpiece, HEDRA!
BCR’s Jonny Bloozit’s epic spiritual noir “The Nowhere Man” is Kickstarter-ing. Jonny is raising funds to collect his fabulous minis in a larger-format, perfect bound graphic novel. Will your children someday look up at you, with wide, innocent, trusting eyes and say “What did you do when The Nowhere Man was on Kickstarter, (daddy/mommy/parental designation of your choice)?”
What will you tell them?