Art Exchange is the new awesome

Every once in awhile you decide to throw a party in which the guests attending have to abide by lots of rules. Parties with purpose. Parties with a set theme and structured, timed activities. Which is why we decided to invite over some of our most disciplined and artistic friends for our very first ever Art Exchange.

The idea was based off a series that I had seen at the Wurst Gallery they call their "Vintage Vandals" series, where each artist is asked to find a framed piece of artwork at their local thrift store and manipulate it into a piece of their own.

The (totally strict) rules of our Art Exchange party:

1) Eat our homemade versions of some delicious Cheeseboard pizza recipes. Do not complain that there is no meat and no sauce.



2) Bring one piece of thrift store art to place on the faux fireplace. Prepare yourself to see your boring piece of art transformed.





3) Pick numbers randomly out of a tin. Whoever picks #1 chooses their piece of art to work on. Then continue in numerical order until everyone has a new piece of art to make their own. Don't cry when you get number 11 and have to choose last.



4) Start working quickly with your paints and collages and sharpies and glue to make a masterpiece, because you only have an hour and a half to complete your project.













5) Finish your paintings in the hour and a half you were allotted. Marvel at the creations of your own hands.











6) Take a closer look at some of these gems and wonder how your friends can be so artistic in such a short amount of time. Then draw numbers and take home the piece of art that corresponds to the number that you drew.




7) resist the urge to jump your friends as they leave the house and steal their art because they got the item that you were hoping for. instead, sit on the couch and hold your new works of art looking proud of yourselves.