Ava Richey Brings the Artists and Writers Exchange back to the Bay Area

For those of you new to Coos Bay/North Bend and Bandon may not know about the Artists and Writers Exchange. This clever blend of disciplines was engineered by Ava Richey of Bandon. (Big surprise, someone from Bandon coming up with a brilliant and different art project…) The original flavor was presented two years ago and filled the Southern Coos Hospital with images and words and many proud and pleased artists of both varieties. Now we have the 2010 version, Food For Thought, and with it comes all of the energy and effort from the last incarnation along with the puzzle of deciding just what food for art is and how it can be best realized.

No, I won’t give you any clues. You’ll have to figure it out for yourself. And that is all part of the exchange. Forty writers and forty visual artists will exchange art work taking the art from the opposite discipline and creating a completely new work based on what they receive. Peace in the Middle East should be easy by comparison.

So don’t drag your feet, if you got an invitation to submit do it now, time’s awasting and its first come, first served. Don’t be left standing with your palette in your hand when all the other artists are busily scurrying to their studios and if you are a writer, well, standing around with a computer or word processor in your hand can be exhausting. Don’t let it happen to you, get your entry in today and then you can sweat it out like all of the rest waiting for the art you have to re-imagine.

The Artists and Writers Exchange 2010, Food For Thought, coming to a hospital near you, this is really one time you want to be taken to the hospital and won’t you feel neglected if everyone else does it and there you are with nothing to do? First come first served, so don’t be late

And if by some terrible clerical error you weren’t included call Ava and whine, beg and wheedle and maybe she’ll get you in. If you are pitiful enough you might not get in this time, but you could burn such an indelible image on Ava’s mind that she’ll include you in the next Exchange just to avoid the whimpering.