ATCs for China

Artistic Trading Cards (ATCs) have been around since the mid 1990s.  They originated as a calling card or business card for artists.  They are original mini works of art that are traded: you give a card you get a card.  ATCs are now traded world wide.  I have a large collection from my years on yahoo art groups making and trading.  The only standard is they MUST be the size of a baseball card: 2-1/2" x 3-1/2".  Other than that, anything goes- paint, marker, crayons, collage...

While my husband, daughter, friend and I are in China we will be serving at a performing arts school that educates 135 very poor, rural mountain kids.  We will be teaching Bible lessons on Creation and Noah's Ark.  I plan on making ATCs with the Chinese kids with the themes of: weather, animals and food and trading them with the cards that I am bringing from kids here.

Here are some examples I made.  I still have a bit of coloring to do.

"Sunny" and playing around with Van Gogh's "Starry Nights".

These are some of the 90 cards made by my students at Grace Christian School.  I will be taking them to China, making trading cards with the students in China and returning home with the cards to swap out.

My son is working on this one.