Closing Show for Brennan Conaway AND Fundraiser for the Bathtub Art Museum

[Benjamin Foote]

Come help Carye Bye bring Brennan's work into her life, and thereby manifesting the Bathtub Art Museum.

Friday September 25th, 5pm
AT ONGallery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redbat/3940785089/

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From: carye bye <cary...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Subject: The Bathtub Art Museum is back....and getting an art sculpture home! $5 Foundation Friends!
To: Carye Bye <batht...@gmail.com>


So, many of you may know about my Bathtub Art Museum... it was a project that I started in 2003 with an online museum showcasing all my postcards that I had been collecting since high school- now there are about 350 bathtub-themed postcards in the collection. The summer of 2003 I also curated a huge Bathtub Art Show, Fair, and traveled to Nanaimo, Canada for the "Great" Bathtub Races.  I kept the online museum updated through about 2006, with a monthly e-newsletter. Then I guess I got busy. But I knew this was a project I wanted to return to.

I've always dreamed of having a physical museum and bathtub garden. It wasn't until I saw Brennan Conaway's sculpture earlier this month that I found the perfect home and lucky me, Brennan is excited as well to help me adapt the sculpture so it can live outdoors in my backyard in North Portland! It will most likely be more of a summer museum, but when it isn't a museum, it will be my own personal clubhouse! You must step into the bathtub to get inside!

I'm sending this email to first share my excitement, but I'm also hoping to fundraise a little $ for the costs of the sculpture and getting an outdoor roof on it. Brennan has agreed to do this at a very good deal for the sake of art.

READ ON....

cheers,
Carye Bye, the Bathtub Lady
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FOUNDATION FRIEND OF BAM
Be One of the 100 Founding Friends of the Bathtub Art Museum. We need 100 people to donate $5 by Friday to raise our goal of $500 to outfit the new Bathtub Art Museum building for the outdoors. Foundation Friends get a numbered letterpress certificate AND a lifetime membership to BAM which includes free admission to future shows! If you aren't local and want to donate, pop a check made out to Carye Bye in the mail to P.O. Box 6662, Portland, Oregon, 97228 or use my paypal link. Let me know if you are sending a check so I can count you.

SEE the Postcard for the show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redbat/3940785089/

ON Gallery Presents:
A Bathtub Art Closing & Fundraiser
Friday, Sept 25, 2009, 5 – 8pm
ON Gallery at the Everett Station Lofts
321 NW 6th Ave #101

Last chance to see Brennan’s ‘Island Vacation’ bathtub sculpture before it becomes . . .
the NEW Bathtub Art Museum!
After the show, we'll be moving the sculpture to North Portland and converting it into BAM’s new physical space. All proceeds from this event will go towards BAM's new sculptural home!

-Experience Art
-Leave your troubles behind
-Maybe get a little wet, if you dare
-Try your luck with the ducks for a buck
-How about some island attire?
-Become a patron of the arts, $5 memberships
-For 25 cents the Bathtub Lady will show a little leg

ON Gallery
ONgallery.org

Brennan Conaway’s Art
Brennanconaway.com

Bathtub Art Museum
bathtubmuseum.org
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