Electric City Creative Presents: NEW YEAR, NEW ART Silent Auction Art Party

Think you can't afford to buy art? Are your walls looking a bit uninteresting? Do you like discovering new things? SAY, we can help you with that!

Electric City Creative is hosting another art party, this time a silent auction featuring work by Great Falls artists. Minimum bids are starting very low, so everyone has a chance to go home with something great.

We'll have work available from:

- GOO
- Tyson Habein
- Corey Fisher
- Julia Becker
- David Mariani Jr.
- Ernesto Velazquez

And who knows what sort of extra goodies we'll have going on. Turn up and find out.

Bidding starts at 6pm and we'll have drink specials all night. Under 21? That's all right, too. Come have a soda and put in a bid. No cover.

Shortly before 9pm, we'll announce the high bidders for each work of art, and then the night transitions into Machinery Row's regular Open Mic Night, which always promises a good time.

If you haven't been to Open Mic before, now is the time to check it out. Regular performers include Joe Ryan, Dana Jo Forseth, Ryan Johnson, Jonny Ravenscroft and more. It's a fantastic night of music.

During Open Mic, we'll do a live auction of a collaborative piece of art from the artists, featuring an unusual canvas you'll just have to see...

RSVP on Facebook here.

You know you want to come. Tell your friends, come see some spectacular work, and enjoy the tunes. See you there.

Electric City Creative Issue #6: BUILD

Oh man, we know. We know calling this issue "Summer 2011" is awfully strange when it is published one day after Labor Day. Yes, technical issues preventing timely publication were everywhere, but behold! Issue #6: BUILD is finally up and ready for your viewing pleasure.

Rounding up the events of this past summer, here's what you will find in BUILD:

- Tyson Habein interviews regular participants in Machinery Row's Open Mic Night, featuring Gabriel Vasichek, Josh Wilkinson, Dana Jo Forseth, and Joe Ryan.

- Tyson also goes under the gun at Level Up Tattoo, featuring the work of Pablo Jara.

- We've got your First Friday Art Walk coverage, including work at McMillan Studio, Montana Actors Theatre, Four West Art League, and Warehouse Square.

- Tyson also has a photo editorial, TASTE THE SKY, featuring skateboarder Ryan Simonetti and BMXer Dwayne "Dirty" Taylor

- Sara Habein reviews Miss Sloan's debut album The Good Ship Clairvoyance in this issue's Liner Notes.

Check it all out HERE. For the best viewing experience, press Ctrl+L in Adobe Reader for the full-screen, double page spread.

The print edition will be available through MagCloud soon. We will let you know as soon as it's ready for purchase.


Our next issue will be out in November. Thanks so much for reading.

Advertising Rate Change

Hello everyone -

Our advertising rates will be changing soon. After June 20th, our rates will be increasing, but if you would like to purchase advertising at the current rates, please email us before then.

electriccitycreative AT gmail DOT com

As always, thank you for reading.

Art Party + Group Show Roundup!

(3 year olds are not as impressed with the art show prep process. That's GOO's work hanging behind him.)

10 am on May 20, we met up with GOO, Butchard M, Rachel Kaiser, Halley Gallagher and David Mariani Jr. to set up for our party at Machinery Row. Since everyone had done other shows before, the process of finding the right wall space and the actual hanging went fairly quickly. Also, a big thank you is due to Tim Peterson at the Row for letting us have more or less free reign when it came to nails in the walls and posts, as well as temporarily moving signs.


(Rachel Kaiser)


(Butchard M and promo posters for the upcoming INFINITE DISPOSABLE from our micropress, Nouveau Nostalgia.)


(Quick cell phone pic of our merch. We sold several copies of the magazine, several copies of FLAWED MACHINE, and all but one of our Nouveau Nostalgia t-shirts. The last t-shirt went to Chuck the bar manager.)

People began to show up right after 6pm, and the crowd fluctuated, but was also at times quite large. We're absolutely thrilled that we had such a great turnout and response to the work on the walls. I believe that nearly everyone sold at least one painting, and we even bought GOO's catfish painting ourselves. Whenever we get our own gallery space here in town, you can be sure we'll have it on display as part of our permanent collection.



We also had Floods play a short set early on in the night. GOO, Butchard M and Shaun Carrier comprise the band, and the crowd seemed to dig their instrumental fuzz-rock.



Later on in the night, GOO, Rachel and Halley were doodling on a piece of paper along with a couple of other people, and the result ended up tacked up inside the bar as well:



We are looking forward to doing more events like these, and Machinery Row was absolutely fantastic to work with. You can see a few more photos of the event on Tyson Habein's flickr page, and we may put up others soon.

Also, we still have a few copies of the magazine ($9) and FLAWED MACHINE ($5) left, so if you're local and want to save yourself the shipping, shoot us an email at electriccitycreative AT gmail DOT com.

ISSUE #5: FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT (Spring 2011) is here!

(...to parrrr-ty!)


Hello, friends! Yes, our much hyped and much awaited fifth issue is here and available for your ocular pleasure. We are exceptionally proud of this one, as it features some outstanding content and is our largest issue yet at 50 pages.

What can you find this time around?

- PROFILES of artists GOO and Halley Gallagher

- GIG REVIEW: Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs at Machinery Row

- PHOTO EDITORIAL by Tyson Habein, "Soft Land."

- FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK coverage for March and May, featuring work at Taco Del Sol, My Viola Floral Studio, Inspire Portraits, and Warehouse Square.

- LINER NOTES: Reviewing RiverSide Rising's self-titled debut album

-HIGHLIGHTS from The Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond)'s visit during Western Art Week, as well as notes on the Western Masters Art Show itself.

However, a word about that: Somehow in the madness of assembling our content, we've temporarily lost our photos from both Pioneer Woman and Western Art Week. We deeply regret this, as we saw several artists that we thought pushed the definition of what it means to be a "Western" artist, in ways that our readers might not expect.

What we promise to do is this: The moment we find these photos, we will do a special one-off post regarding both Pioneer Woman and the art itself. Consider it a "special edition," however delayed. Again, we apologize.


STILL! Now is the time to enjoy the content we have today. READ IT NOW!

Remember, PDF documents take a little while to load, and since this issue is 50 pages long, it may take a minute or so to appear on your screen.

Free digital versions are also available through MagCloud, where you can also order print editions for $10.

However!

If you attend our ART PARTY + GROUP SHOW tonight (May 20) at Machinery Row, a print edition can be yours for $9 and you'll save yourself any shipping costs. Quantities are limited at the party, so make sure to come in!

Thank you, as always, for reading.

-- Sara Habein
(Editor/Publisher)

So are you going?

Flyer courtesy of our friend GOO.

If you're on Facebook, you can RSVP here.

Electric City Creative Art Party + Group Show

Electric City Creative wants to show off some of the great, creative work happening around Great Falls, and what better way to do so than throwing a party?

Featuring the work of:

GOO
Halley Gallagher
Rachel Kaiser
Butchard M
David Mariani Jr.
Nouveau Nostalgia: A Micro-Press

Music by Floods

May 20th also coincides with the release of Electric City Creative's fifth issue covering Spring 2011, and we will have real! live! print copies for sale during the party. Print editions purchased at the party are $9 and ones ordered online will be $10.

Not to mention:
The DJ (For all the talk we've done in past issues about dance parties, how could we not have a DJ? Ready your requests, friends.)

$2 pints of Great Falls Select

Delicious pizza

This is an ALL AGES show until 10pm, but ECC will be there until closing time.

If you're on Facebook, you can officially RSVP here. Or just give a shout in the comments or say hello via Twitter. We're so online-omnipresent, it's ridiculous.

Come see the art, come have something to eat, come meet some new people. Be there or be somewhere considerably less awesome. Tell your friends.