Hi, everyone.

We've had such a tremendous response to the open call that we need to taper down the entries. For this reason, the entry form link has been removed from this profile, and will be available at stupidcreatures.com until the due date for all entries.

Get your form, kids. If you have questions or problems understanding the form, LET US KNOW.

To answer one very common question, Yes, we do ask that you mail your work with your entry form, not separately.

To answer another one: No, the entry form is not an application. We don't need to receive it before you are allowed to enter.

The entry form is simply a record keeping implement.

Back to the point.. The open call is closed. You have to email us pics of your work if you want us to consider you for the show. March 14 is the last day we will accept shipments for this show.

It's gonna be so flippin' great.

Thanks to all of you who have already made this show an immense success.

Anybody wanting banners or promotional images and the like for your own blogs, websites and/or news pages, just holla.

J/I

Hi, participants..

We've got quite a load of participants by now and we're very excited about the way the show's going to look.

I'm bugging my doctor friends for any medical equipment they might be able to hook us up with as props for the show. So far a friend of mine who runs a vintage shop has been the only one to come through for us. They're gonna make a great addition. We'll put a few on the food table.

Gotta make postcards now.
Gotta get press releases pressed and released.
Gotta get my entries designed and made.
Gotta work on some displays and handmade props.

As for you guys, is there anything you need? Is there anything you're unclear on? Any links or downloads not working properly? Please ask.

John/Ian

Thanks, everyone for such a tremendously positive response. And thank you all for your patient wait for this follow-up information. Read on for important information about the show. If you still have questions, do not hesitate to write back.

I'm really excited about this show. Asheville's getting pretty interested in it. The City Visitor's Bureau is gonna give us a mention, so will the chamber of commerce, and the Asheville Citizen Times has already done up a blurb online.

Thus far, YOU could be showing in Asheville with such talents as:

Aimee Ray

Angel

Beck Wheeler

Cat-Rabbit

Clarity Miller

Blobby Farm

Boris Hoppek

Cuddly Rigormortis

Cat-Rabbit

Cupco!

Dan "Grickily" Goodsell

Dav Guedin

Dennis "Bytedust" Douven

Candycreatures

Donna Wilson

Erin Shafkind

JelliBat

Jenny Harada

Jess Hutchinson

Joshua Longo

Kinch White

Kitty Pinkstars

Klim Kozinevich

Little Odd Forest

Little Miss Luzifer

Mandy Newham

Mark May

Matt Deterior

Meena Kim

Mr. Muju

Mister Oura

Mr. Pickles

Mutation Sensation

Nate Little

Nervous Onion

Pulcomayo

Rachel Chow

Rhya Tamasauskas

Serena Kuhl

Shawnimal Smith

She Lost It

Spasmodica

Spök-Spök

Squink!

Syl HIllier

Teresa Levy

Tsai-Fi

Vanskap

Zupton

So.. Because of the long list of potential entrants, let's keep your contributions to 1 or 2 pieces.

The show's name: Medical Experiments in Plush. This also happens to be the theme of the show. Whatever this means to you, do it up in plush form.

Opening: Saturday, March 17, 7 PM at PUSH Sakteshop, 25 Patton Avenue, downtown Asheville, NC 28801

Send your work to:
MedEx Show,
c/o The Stupid Creatures Toy Co.
148 Brevard Road, ..3
Asheville, NC 28806 USA

Deadline for Entries: Wednesday, March 14

Promotion:
Push Skateshop will display your work for the duration of the show, and act as the agent for its sale during that time. Push won't use your work for any other purpose without your permission. Push and Stupid Creatures will promote the show for the purpose of selling your work.

Term of consignment:
The term of consignment for your work will be the duration of the show, March 17 - April 18, 2007, plus 2 days prior for setting up the show and up to a month after for the return of any unsold works. You must not request the return of your work before the end of this term.

Pricing and selling:
The pricing of your work is up to you. Try to keep it reasonable. And of course, please price your work in American dollars. Push Skateshop will split the sales with you like this: 60% / 40% (artist's favor) for any work priced less than $200, and 70% / 30% for any work priced more than $200.

Warranty of Originality:
You as the artist warrant that you created and possess total rights and title to the work you contribute, and that its descriptions are true and accurate. You also warrant that the work you contribute was not made from the direct or indirect use of an instructional volume like a how-to or craft book, especially if you don't have the permission of the license holder to any such book.

Liability:
Push Skateshop will be responsible for the safekeeping of your work during the term of consignment. Push Skateshop and Stupid Creatures are not responsible If your work is damaged due to any inherent flaws.

Shipping:
The artist is responsible for the secure packing and safe shipping of his or her work to the show. Stupid Creatures will see to the safe return of the work to the artist if it doesn't sell during the term of consignment.

OKAY ENOUGH OF THAT

If you send work to the show, we'll take all the above terms as agreed-to and understood. It's gonna be great.

There is an entry form that I can email you when you're ready. I've tried to post it to the website but alas, it got wierd.

Questions? email medex@stupidcreatures.com

Deadline for entries: Wed, March 14
Show opens: March 17
Show closes: April 18

Hi, everyone. I encourage all of you committed participants to subscribe to this blog. Here are some things you gotta know:

1. We need you to drop a line to medex@stupidcreatures.com so we can start a mailing list about the show for the definite participants. You can just send a line that says "yes I'm in" or something to that effect.. Feel free to divulge your deepest darkest if you so wish. We are, of course, doctors. Ha.

2. We want to update this profile to include a list of definite participants. Participants are encouraged to provide us with URLs to your website, online shop, flickr site, myspace or wherever you might best be found online so your listing can be linked up with your site.

2.5. On the subject of links, John's reworking the ancient, dusty links page on www.stupidcreatures.com. If you want to be linked, email his flat caucasian arse and say "link me," or thereabouts. Include a basic category for your link: are you a gallery, a design firm, an individual artist (specify genre), a group.. you know.

3. The dates of the show have changed. You've now got a bit more time to sicken the world with your medical misfires. We're waiting on PUSH (the venue) to etch the dates in stone, but the show will open in the middle of March, and end the middle of April (that's tax time, everyone).

4. As the opening day is still a tiny bit nebulous, the entry form with all the terms has, of course, not been posted. This is a good thing. We'll post the entry form's availability as soon as it's ready.

That's it for now..
J and I

Hello, plush designers. You're invited to submit work to a show that John and Ian of Stupid Creatures will be curating in Asheville, NC. The host for the show will be the well known art venue and skate shop PUSH in downtown Asheville.

Please visit the profiles of the hosts, Ian and John.

Please feel free to add the show's profile to your friends list and help spread the word.

The theme is Medical Experiments. Plush toy artists are encouraged to ponder this theme and plushify what they come up with.

Original art is a must. But you can perform a medical experiment on an existing toy, as long as it's apparent that it's your dreadful modifications to the toy is your art, and not the toy itself.

The deadline for submissions is Valentine's Day, 2007. Terms and an entry form will be available for download on the stupidcreatures.com links page as soon as possible.

Any questions can and will be answered by Ian and/or John at the email medex@stupidcreatures.com.

That's it for now. Do help spread the word, sil vous plait, by reposting this blog or forwarding the show's profile to people you think are a good fit for the show.

Thanks a ton!

John