UPPERCASE
#204, 100 – 7th Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2P 0W4
A secret hideaway high atop trees, the treehouse is a place of adventure, instinct, and imagination. In youth, treetop forts created a sanctuary for survival games. In adulthood, the allure of the treehouse speaks to the desire for a close encounter with nature.
From the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Swiss Family Robinson to the neighbor’s backyard and beyond, the treehouse endures as a powerful and enchanting symbol of the wilderness spirit.
This spring, UPPERCASE will launch Treehouse, an art exhibition celebrating the drama, beauty, freedom, danger, and escape of treetop living. We invite you to live out your treehouse memories or fantasies in artistic form.
Send us a drawing of the treehouse you remember playing in as a child or an image of the one you would love to construct for your very own private island getaway. Photography, painting, collage and other visual mediums of representation are also welcome.
*Some submissions will be featured in our debut issue of UPPERCASE, a magazine for the creative and curious. If you are interested in participating, please email us. Submissions are due electronically by March 1. If your work is selected for inclusion in the gallery show, we will send further instructions.
The Work-in-Progress Society is a group I started on Flickr recently and we’re already at 40+ members!
The photographs selected for the pool celebrate beauty in the unfinished. The subjects can be craft, art, design, illustration and the various tools, supplies and mess required to create the works. Whether the project ever gets finished is beside the point — we’re just happy to be creating and exploring!
Thank you so much for your kind wishes, notes of congratulations and blog postings. Thank you to our new subscribers from near and far (England! Spain!) We are very grateful for your support.
Over the next weeks we will be posting the table of contents and design previews from the first issue. With 68 pages, we have lots of exciting content to share with you.
Keep your suggestions, portfolios and Works-in-Progress coming our way!
We’re inquisitive: learning from other artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, filmmakers and musicians, whether they’re upstarts or icons, famous or shy, verbal or visual.
We’re inspired: enchanted by great ideas and strange inventions; by colour and pattern; things fancy and frugal; the charm of vintage in a modern life; the ridiculous and the sublime.
We’re adventurous: traveling to destinations both real and imagined, peeking into creative spaces and discovering magnificent people and memorable places.
We’re eclectic: curating souvenirs, collecting treasures and celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday.
We’re playful: delighting in visual amusements, intelligent distraction, entertaining wordplay and sweet indulgences.
We’re UPPERCASE: a magazine for the creative and curious!
Read all about the project and how you can subscribe, participate and advertise on the Magazine sidebar at right.
Cover illustration courtesy Blanca Gómez, Madrid.
Thank you so much, Blanca!
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