Archive for March, 2011

2011 Schedule of Events

Thursday, March 31st, 2011
APRIL 15
University of Kentucky Art 191: ART PROFESSIONS
12:00pm - 12:50pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg Whitehall Classroom Bldg-Rm.118-CB

We will be lecturing about being professional artists, starting a small business, the process of screen-printing, and the lessons we’ve learned along the way!

APRIL 16
Record Store Day!
CD Central
377 S. Limestone Lexington, KY 40508

We’ll be set up at CD Central with posters and swag! Come support your local record store!
APRIL 17
Morris Book Shop: Events
12:00pm
408 Southland Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40503

As the cover artist, Sara will be joining Abigail Keam as she signs her mystery novel Death by Drowning. This follow-up to her debut, Death by a HoneyBee, is the second adventure of Josiah Reynolds series.

APRIL 30
Morris Book Shop: Events
2:00pm
408 Southland Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40503

We’re so excited about the debut of this book! Sara was asked to design and illustrate the cover and all interior illustrations for this regional cookbook and will be joining Kentucky native Maggie Green as she signs The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook. Loaded with over 200 recipes, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook takes home chefs through a year in the Kentucky kitchen. Maggie complements her recipes with tidbits about her own experiences with food, including regional food traditions she learned growing up in Lexington.

AUGUST 20 - 21
Woodland Art Fair
Woodland Christian Church
530 East High Street Lexington, KY 40502

For the 6th year we’ll have a tent set-up at the Woodland Art Fair on the church side of the street! Come by to check out all our new stuff. Details to come!
SEPTEMBER 10 - 11
SPX Small Press Expo
Saturday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday: noon – 6:00 pm
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

We’ll have a booth at SPX where Sara will be set-up with her comics and art-prints!

SEPTEMBER 23, 24, 25
Scarefest: Horror & Paranormal Convention
Lexington Convention Center

Cricket Press will be set up at Scarefest this year…the largest horror and paranormal convention in the US with comics, posters, and original illustrations. We attended Scarefest last year and had a blast. This will be our first year tabling. Come by and share you love of the genre with us!


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NOVEMBER 5 - 6
MIX: Minneapolis Indie Xpo
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN

The Minneapolis Indie Xpo celebrates independent comics and Midwest cartoonists. We’ll be there with comics!

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Flatstock 29!

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Cricket Press will be attending the Flatstock Poster Convention in Austin, Texas during the SXSW Festival. This is the 29th Flatstock to date, and the Austin Flatstock is always FREE  to attend & definitely open to the public. We are in a new room this year, so check below for a convenient map to help you find over 75 poster artists from around the world displaying & selling their rock posters. Hope to see you there!

Dates:

  • Wednesday March 16th – Saturday March 19, 2011

Hours:

  • Wednesday 3/16 – 2pm – 6pm  (note this is the ONLY half day)
  • Thursday 3/17 – 11am – 6pm
  • Friday 3/18 – 11am – 6pm
  • Saturday 3/19 – 11am – 6pm

Location:

  • Austin Convention Center – Level 1, Ballrooms A, B, C at 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78701 (see map below)

The FLATSTOCK poster show is presented by the American Poster Institute (API). It is an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring the work of many of the most popular concert poster artists working today.

The API is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting the art form. Both the API and its FLATSTOCK series were organized in 2002 as a result of conversations between interested artists and supporters frequenting the popular website GigPosters.com. The best concert posters have always captured both the essence of the music they promoted and the spirit of the time in which they were produced. This is as true today as it was in San Francisco during the Sixties.

The FLATSTOCK shows provide the general public with an ongoing series of opportunities to see fine poster art in person and to meet the artists who’ve created it — they provide the API with a way to present the poster artists collectively while showcasing the breadth of individual styles they represent.

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