In 2010, the first known exhibit of Asemic writing took place in Russia, curated by Gleb Kolomiets and Inna Kirrilova.
Asemic Writing can be described as symbolic script, intuitive lettering that is not a part of known writing or language. Examples of this writing can be found at Michael Jacobson’s site The New Post Literate where [...]

People seem to get around to the “why” questions now and then. Why do we write? Why do we create? Why do we keep doing it, despite the times when we feel discouraged?
Some artists and writers describe their desire to work as compulsive, at times even pursued at great cost and sacrifice. Even in the [...]

Chuck Gattuso interviewed by Lynn Alexander for Full Of Crow’s Arterialize
LA:       You seem to do it all, from constructing things to painting to collecting and sharing mail art from all over the world.
Is there something you would identify as your favorite form of expression, where you feel the most connection with your art?   If [...]

Michael Mc Aloran is a poet and artist, and these are pieces from a collection of abstract paintings done in oil.

He was born in Belfast in 1976. His family moved to the south of Ireland due to ‘The Troubles’. He has travelled extensively in Europe, living for brief spells in both [...]

DALIKRAB DAY 2010:
“The essence of Dalikrab Day is very simple. Create. Manipulate. Repeat.”
According to Justynn Tyme:
[ CREATE ] a piece(s) of art, text, music, video and email or blog it or both to the group or the blog. Everyone else should be doing this. [ MANIPULATE ] another’s art, as inspired [...]

Full Of Crow’s Arterialize and the Sunday Night Poetry Hour will be enthusiastic participants in celebrating International Women’s Day this year on March 8, 2009. Arterialize will have a full month of art and interviews featuring female artists working in a variety of media. There will also be a collection of photography presented here and [...]

I originally interviewed artist Hunter Clarke for Her Circle, a magazine dedicated to the female experience, when she participated in the exhibition “Full Circle: A Tribute to the Cultural Diversity of Women’s Art” at the Pen and Brush Gallery in New York City. She won first prize for her painting “Parental Instinct 3” (Watercolor on [...]

Tim Gaze’s Asemic Magazine features “asemic writing, abstract art, and related forms.” This publication comes out of Australia and includes a hundred pages of work by artists from all over the world.
I first got to know Tim Gaze when we interviewed him for Full Of Crow’s PRATE Interview series, and this is what he had [...]

BIOGRAPHY

    Tim Scannell, born in Chicago, has written for 52 years (since 14), his longest continuous activity other than being alive. Credits include 1,300 poems/reviews/essays/and articles in 400 different publications;numerous chaps, broadsides, etcetera, most of them now at Brown University in the Hay Harris Special Collection (an archive for items of [...]

The Digital Surrealist: The Surreal Fine Art of Paris Wells

The purpose of my work is to establish a strong connection between myself and others. I will often contemplate how and why we act and react to both tangible and intangible stimuli.I am deeply fascinated by peoples idiosyncrasies,and these become the basis of my work,but exhibiting [...]

It’s time again for Full Of Crow fiction, now quarterly, with the next line up to appear on October 1. Maine artist/writer Peter Schwartz, new contributing editor at PRATE, has photography featured. Here, October 1.

These are just quirky, drawn in the graffiti-like style that is typical Jaria. I like that his drawings make me think of street art, tags, graffiti. He often incorporates arc-like movement, a bit jagged, a bit umbrella. These three pieces will be in Fashion For Collapse in a few weeks.

MiCrow Summer features contributed photography, with Kristin Fouquet’s interpretation of the voyeuristic theme of “Peek” presented throughout.
This particular photo was used as the main “cover” image for MiCrow Summer 2009, which can be viewed here.
MiCrow is the flash fiction (under 1000 words) supplement section of Full Of Crow.
To find out about the next issue, [...]

Michael Jacobson presents collections of Asemic writing at his website, The New Post Literate.
Recent: Asemic Writing by Geof Huth,  Scott Helmes,
iTouch Visual Poetry by Nico Vassilakis, “Winter’s Objection” by Grzegorz Wroblewski

Henry Avignon’s photography was featured as a special collection in the Full Of Crow Galleries this summer, “Selfisms”. The photo to the right shows Avignon’s eye for color, “From Rust”. He has this ability to show ordinary objects in exraordinary ways, rendering the ugly beautiful.
You can see the collection of photographs in his gallery section [...]