Learning about ATC cards & Felt character pins
Nowadays we have all sorts of "baseball cards". When I was young I remember collecting Charlie's Angels cards, Star Wars cards, and Wacky Packages stickers. The great thing that artists now are creating are ATC cards (Artist Trading Cards). These cards are created by using typically mixed media. This week we talked to the children about what mixed media are, and how they are incorporated into ATC cards. ATC cards were basically created by an artist from Switzerland named Stirneman. In 1996 he wanted to create a catalogue for work he was doing with some other artists. Due to the high cost of printing what he called hockey cards, he decided to create them himself to a tune of 1,200. After he made all of them in 1997 he put them on exhibit, and when it was open to the public he encouraged those who came to create their own. So, ATC cards are the same dimension as baseball cards so you can fit them into typical baseball card sleeves for protection. ATC cards also are only traded or exchanged not sold. Though nowadays people do sell them though they are considered ACEO (Art cards, editions, and originals) cards.
With the remainder of our time we had the kids make felt character pins. We created a few templates for the kids, but encouraged them also to create their own if they wanted to. These we super fun to make and putting googly eyes on them made them extra cute/funny.
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