So you can be included in the promotional materials, we need to know in advance if you want to participate and what time slots you want to be there for (which can be as short as a few hours or as long as all night from 6PM to 9AM). If you want to be in on the fun, let me know at webmaster(at)cartoonistconspiracy.com.

BEER, PIZZA and DRAWING MATERIALS will be provided!

Rain Taxi and mnartists.org join forces to create a writer’s dream at Northern Spark, the third annual all-night art fest!

Analog Cave combines the tactile intimacy of a handwritten letter with the fleeting immediacy of social media. Throughout Northern Spark, mnartists.org and Rain Taxi Review of Books invite the public to enter our decked-out Imaginarium for a moment of private reflection and contribute a short text or illustration through a variety of analog tools and processes. The crowd-sourced content will undergo a real-time editorial process which will convert the entries into filmic projections, printed objects, drawn posters, or other public displays—all viewable from Bedlam’s street-side window in Lowertown. The goal of the project is to create a platform for thoughtful, slowed-down messages which leave behind a physical object.

Bedlam Theater
213 East 4th Street
Lowertown, St. Paul
Get directions HERE.

The coffee shop will be open. There are outlets for your devices, plus coffee-shop wi-fi.

There is free parking in the MCBA lot immediately east of the building. If the lot is full, go to the metered street parking on 3rd Street (one block south of Washington Ave.) for 25 cents an hour, or to the higher-priced meters on the other streets. Or, walk or ride your bike.

This is an open studio — all are welcome. Feel free to hang out, draw, or whatever.

Saturday, May 11, from noon to 4 pm, at the flexi-space (low tables)

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(just west of Big Brain Comics)
Minneapolis, 1011 Washington Ave. South

http://www.mnbookarts.org/

612-215-2520

Future Saturday Open Studios:
June 15, bindery (high tables)
July 13, flexi-space (low tables)
August 17, flexi-space (low tables)

Generally, we draw collaborative “jam” comics, socialize and drink caffeinated beverages. Afterwords, we often have uncaffeinated beverages somewhere else.

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).

Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe
1618 Central Avenue Northeast
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bus info here.

Please spend some money at Diamond’s while you’re there, even if it is just a cuppa coffee… they are excellent hosts, and we wanna stay welcome there.

Two upcoming shows at Altered Esthetics need your art: Physique & Technique (our July show) and Rock Ink Roll (this year’s comic art show).

Physique & Technique
Submission Deadline: May 15

Flex your creative muscles and let your body do the talking. Show us your artistic and athletic prowess with works that embrace the physicality in art and performance.

To submit art for Physique & Technique, create an account at www.alteredesthetics.org and fill out the submission form, or email exhibitions@alteredesthetics.org

Rock Ink Roll
Submission Deadline for Comics: June 15
Submission Deadline for Poster Art: Sept 15

Read the submission guidelines at the Altered Esthetics website

Rock Ink Roll is a celebration of art and rock music, brought to you by Altered Esthetics, The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, and Big Time Attic. We are producing an anthology of music-themed comics to be released at the Rock Ink Roll gallery show at Altered Esthetics in November 2013. The anthology will be a 12×12” full-color book of comics packaged to look like an LP, with cover art by Xeric-winner Brittney Sabo. The gallery exhibition will consist of original comic art and rock posters.

The coffee shop will be open. There are outlets for your devices, plus coffee-shop wi-fi.

There is free parking in the MCBA lot immediately east of the building. If the lot is full, go to the metered street parking on 3rd Street (one block south of Washington Ave.) for 25 cents an hour, or to the higher-priced meters on the other streets.

This is an open studio — all are welcome. Feel free to hang, draw, or whatever.

Saturday, April 27, from noon to 4 pm, at the flexi-space (low tables)

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(just west of Big Brain Comics)
Minneapolis, 1011 Washington Ave. South

http://www.mnbookarts.org/

612-215-2520

Future Saturday Open Studios:
May 11, flexi-space (low tables)
June 15, bindery (high tables)
July 13, flexi-space (low tables)
August 17, flexi-space (low tables)

The Minnesota Cartoonist League, a cartooning group that has been around the Twin Cities even longer than us (since at least the eighties, I believe) now has a facebook page where you can stay current on what they are up to. They are meeting the last Tuesday of every month at O’Gara’s.

Description
The Minnesota Cartoonist League is group of Minnesota based cartoonists. We meet on the last Tuesday of of every month at O’Gara’s Bar & Grill 164 Snelling Ave N St Paul, MN 55104

In March of 1941, James Freeman O’Gara opened the doors of this tavern providing a wholesome atmosphere for conversation and camaraderie. Initially food and liquor was served to the local residents who fought World War II at home by manufacturing supplies and munitions for those overseas. You could even get a haircut from Carl Schulz, whose son, Charles gained international fame with the cartoon strip “Peanuts.” Schulz’s original shop was located in what is now the Shamrock Room.