10X10 is back....and a little different...makers time to make!

[uglyknees]

The Who:
You - you are invited to participate. This is a chance to show everyone what you do and how you do it - in a pulled together showing of skills and abilities within the constraints of ten whole inches by ten whole inches. @Kevin and @JBluJkt are the leaders in this party and will collect and hang work, to get the word out and to lead the charge of filling the halls with artwork and style.

The What:
You’re invited to get yourself a 10X10 board from the warehouse and do whatever it is that you do. Your end product need not be mounted or made from the board. Your end product can be vastly different. Your end product can be whatever it is that you do. Scroll down to the end for more examples.
They want to change the format a bit with a looser ever-changing show focusing on getting tours involved with the process- so they are working on a system of a rolling voting system with tours and a “hall of fame display” for the winners of this popular vote.

The Where:
Pick up and drop off your boards in the warehouse. I guess now it’s considered “the old warehouse” to the right right as you enter the door. Look at this picture and hopefully you can find it. This is where you will drop off your finished works as well.

The When:
If you have an existing 10X10 or can create a work within a tight deadline the first deadline will be November 19th they will be hung by November 21st by @JBluJkt
The next “fixed” date for turn in/hanging will be December 3rd. Tight deadlines-so get moving.

The How:
Well that’s the fun silly stretch your maker mind around a box and get it back to us to see.
Rules: put your name, phone number, talk name on the back of the board

Here are a few pictures of 10X10’s that I could quickly gleen from the talk - please post more. As you can tell media, content, look, theme…it’s all open. That’s the beauty of the show.

[uglyknees]

They are almost out of the 10X10 blanks so if you can contribute by cutting up some scrap and putting more in the pile more power to you. Metal…fibers…paper…it’s all open.

@Kevin is contacting old participants of the 10X10 show I will do the same from the list of members I have from way long ago.

[uglyknees]

[MizGeek]

Will we have power? I have R2D2 hanging in my bedroom.

[BarkingChicken]

Seconding this question. I have an idea that may or may not pan out, but knowing the power options will tell me how to figure it out.

[heyheymama]

We have 5 USB outlets above the hanging system outside the galley. @MizGeek, R2D2 ran on that power supply last year.

[patrickpleez1]

I actually did my second 10”x10” in 4 years. I am happy with the outcome for the most part. I am looking forward to seeing the other ones that show up this year. This is probably my favorite everyone can participate type thing at DMS.

[John_Marlow]

What’s the hanging scheme (i.e., what is going to be done to the back of the 10x10 to hang it)?

[uglyknees]

L-pins for the win!

[John_Marlow]

What if it’s thicker than the “standard” plywood board?

[MizGeek]

So I have put R2D2 in the 10x10 area. He is in a Trader Joe grocery bag because he is fabric and will get dirty, plus there is a USB cord coming out of him.

[uglyknees]

We will figure it out if that happens.

[John_Marlow]

Ummm … that wasn’t a hypothetical question. I PM’d you with specifics.

[kyrithia]

Maybe it’d be useful if someone posted current guidelines for new works, like whatever the last batch were. Constraints on size, weight, how far they could stick out (I remember this one changing from original first show)

[heyheymama]

Last year. Click on the Panel Instructions link.

10X10 Show is ON! Open to all of Us. Submissions due: Sept 22, 2018

[Panel Instructions1] In a mere 4 days, we’ve built momentum! Would like to thank the 10X10 Team for stepping up so quickly: Mark for all around support, prize donation, and cutting the courtesy bases; Bert for supplying the plywood; Steven for offering to deliver the plywood (though we didn’t need the assist); Nicole for digging up instructions, posters, signups from previous shows; John Gorman for volunteering to make the display labels again; Tom Tansey for investigating a hanging system …

[JBluJkt]

Maybe it’d be useful if someone posted current guidelines for new works, like whatever the last batch were. Constraints on size, weight, how far they could stick out (I remember this one changing from original first show)

Me and Kevin will do our best to make it happen for all submissions Plenty of space to accommodate anything weird. May not be prime wall space, but we can manage.

[uglyknees]

So, the team putting this together is doing this rock and roll style aka “bring it and we will make it work” emphasis on the “bring it” part of the conversation. As the objective is just to get art up on the walls and maker ways be displayed.

Trust in the process everyone…make your art and let the punk rock kids shine you up perfectly fine and probably crack you up a few times along the way. If you do better with restrictions and expectations read the old ones in the list and proceed. No harm either way. Just make something and make yourself proud.

[Kevin]

Guys don’t worry so much just try to stay within the spirit of containing the art in a ten by ten space and we’ll get it up.

We will deal with the outliers via the sex panther strategy since we will be the wall “Anchor Man”s

[talkers]

We have 5 USB outlets above the hanging system outside the galley

Thank you @StanSimmons for setting this up for us last year.