Young artists’ work sought for coloring book
Seeking young artists: Artist collective Border Patrol is looking for original work by young creators for an upcoming coloring book.
The coloring book will be part of Border Patrol’s upcoming exhibition “Book Store” at the Brundage Swap Meet.
Submissions should consist of an original line drawing for someone else to color in or a completed drawing that measures 8½ by 11 inches.
Drawings can be a digital file, photographed copy or scanned copy of an original drawing. The work must be original but need not be recently created.
There is no prescribed theme, but guidelines ask for family-friendly subjects. All submissions must be original artworks, but they do not have to be recent.
Artists can submit as many drawings as they would like for the coloring book. Each artist is guaranteed to have one drawing minimum included in the final copy.
Along with the work, submissions should include the artist’s name, age, contact info (cell phone or email), ZIP code and relevant website or social media handles. Artists are also asked to share something about their work.
Visit border-patrol.net/coloringbook.html to submit.
The deadline to apply is April 5.
The Brundage Swap Meet Coloring Book will be available for free during
Border Patrol’s April exhibition, “Book Store,” opening April 6. Also available will be books, zines, posters, T-shirts, buttons and other printed materials from artists across the country.
Last year, Border Patrol established a space at the indoor flea market to present projects funded by a $50,000 grant from Los Angeles-based nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center California Creative Corps, a pilot program funded by the California Arts Council. Grant recipients have launched projects to increase public awareness about issues of public health, water and energy conservation, civic engagement, social justice and more.
Previous programming included the R.I.P. artist-in-residence series in which visiting artists “explore the politics and aesthetics of grief and death,” a Dia de los Muertos-inspired project with artists from El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec, an Indigenous Oaxacan community living in Taft; texts and drawings by Chicago-based creator olivier; and an interactive installation celebrating social justice movements overseen by Deidre Hathor.
Border Patrol is open 11 a.m.to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and by appointment in spaces K3 to K5 at the swap meet, 2207 Brundage Lane. Visit border-patrol.net for more information.