Artist Wanted!

The Beehive Collective are looking for a competent and experienced pen and ink illustrator to join their collaborative project team! Their materpiece graphic, "Mesoamerica Resiste", is nearing completion and they are searching for one last artist to help with the final push of inking.  Image from The Beehive Design Collective's "Mesoamerica Resiste" Campaign sketchbook

"We are searching for a very specific set of skills, as the artist will definitely need to work in the style that has already been established...

SKILLS

• Experienced with technical pen and ink and/or watercolor

• Fluent with stippling

• Patient

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent team work skills

• Do not need formal art school training to apply!

Experience with scientific illustration, technical drawing, engraving, and botanical illustration are all a big plus.

PROJECT TASKS

• Inking and shading line-work that is already drawn

• undertake inking with group process

We particularly need some support in completing the inking of the animal characters that are drawn with an extreme level of detail using fine, technical pen stippling and line work. You will possibly be working on birds, scaly creatures, furry creatures and or shelled creatures. We also need help doing watercolor washes for the backgrounds of scenes.

If you are interested, or know someone that would be interested in coming to help us complete this amazing project... please respond with:

• Drawing samples, preferably featuring stippled characters These should be in .jpeg format or a link to your website.

• As collaborative illustration is a rare and delicate practice, we would also appreciate a description of your experience with (or enthusiasm for) working in a collective environment.

• Please let us know what attracts you to this project

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Now more than eight years in the making, this project began in 2004 with six months of first hand, on-the ground research in Central America and Mexico. A team of ten Bees investigated and documented grassroots and community-

based alternatives to the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), now renamed Proyecto Mesoamerica. Proyecto Mesoamerica is a ‘mega development’ plan to build a web of industrial and transportation infrastructure from southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia. Like its global counterparts, Project Mesoamerica aims to colonize the land and people of this region in the name of resource extraction and "efficient" global trade routes. The title of the graphic, ‘Mesoamerica Resiste,’ reflects our efforts to illustrate and share stories of grassroots movements working to oppose top-down development through horizontal, community-based organizing.

The Hive’s graphics campaigns are anti-copyright and self-published. Everyone who contributes to the research, design and production of the graphics is personally anonymous in that we all answer the question “who made that?” with "the Beehive Design Collective." We cross-pollinate with grassroots networks for distributing the posters and doing speaking tours, picture-lectures and workshops. We are asking for an illustrator to come to Machias and work on the project with us for the summer. The work of our collective is unpaid. We are able to provide excellent food, cush housing, and the wonderful Maine summer weather. We hope to hear from you soon.

Please respond to Nate at natev83@gmail.com"