Welcome Collaborators!

Hello! Donna, Helen, JacQ, Jenny, Kristin, Lindesay, Nanette, Shelly, Susan, Tamara and Tracey!
This email is to officially welcome you all into the 'Altered Book Collaboration 2009'!
Thanks so much for all of your energetic and enthusiastic responses and committments to be a part of this exciting collaboration. This email contains a list of everybodies name and contact details as well as the proposed dates for the collaboration.
Now we are 'officially' starting I expect to be hearing from you all about your chosen theme, (as stated in the earlier email) a paragraph or two will be fine! It would also be great if you could write a little about yourself: perhaps about your current art practice, what inspires you etc. Please send out in a group email. Also provide a hard copy of your theme to accompany your book on it's travels across Australia, the Unitied Kingdom, USA and Canada, Spain and all the other places that our fellow collaborators are or will be living in and/or travelling to!
Don't forget, each of you as the 'originating artist', will need to alter the front and back cover of your book, or if your book is housed in a container you will probably alter this, as well each OA will alter one *double page spread within their book and perhaps provide some sort of sign in page before sending their book off on the first leg of it's journey. (* a double page spread is the two pages facing you when your book is open) If you happen to have more double page spreads than artists participating then feel free to either alter more yourself or remove/glue some pages to create the number required - there are 12 of us in this collaboration.
When you send your book off ensure that you have provided bubble wrap or other protective packaging as well as a sturdy post box or pack (this will most likely be reused by each artist) You may also like to provide wax (lunchwrap) paper between the double page spreads to stop completed pages from sticking together.
Here is the list that shows who you will be sending to (as it is a round robin, you always send off to the same person - different book each time of course):

Shelly you will send to Kristin in Brisbane

Kristin you will send to Nanette in Yeppoon

Nanette you will send to Donna in Brisbane

Donna you will send to Tracey in Theodore QLD

Tracey you will send to Tamara in Rockhampton

Tamara you will send to Lindesay in Ashburton VIC

Lindesay you will send to JacQ in Melbourne

JacQ you will send to Susan in NSW

Susan you will send to Helen in Brisbane

Helen you will send to Jenny in Brisbane

Jenny you will send to Me Peta in Coowonga QLD

and I will send to Shelly wherever she is in the world (UK, Aust and USA)

Attached to this email are the contact details for each participant. Please check carefully and let me know asap if I have made any mistakes :-)
The first round (after the OA has altered their own book) will begin on the 1st of May, in other words you will each be sending your OA books off to your receiver to arrive on or before the 1st of May. With 12 particiapants I'm planning for this collaboration to take a minimum of 13 months (we have found in past collaborations that it's a good idea to give ourselves the festive season off!) So this would equate to completion of all the rounds by the end of May 2010! Hope you are all okay to hang in there for this long!
Finally, don't forget to sign your work and the sign in page, also to scan or photograph your completed work in each book. It's also common courtesy to send a brief email/text or phone the artist when you have sent off the next book to them and for the artist receiving the book to acknowledge receipt of same to the sender.

If any issues or difficulties arise throughout the collaboration please email or phone me so we can resolve issues quickly!

Any further questions???
Phew!!! Seems like I'm writing an essay each time I send you out an email regarding the collab.!! To our few new comers I hope it's all making sense!
Happy creating!

Peta