Kate Bingaman Zine Workshop 2008

The past week we had a visiting artist come to MECA, Kate Bingaman, who is from Mississippi and does alot of amazing work, she runs her own company/studio called Obsessive Consumption, which is very cool and does alot of hands on work and drawing, check it out in the link. Kate also has more good energy then anyone I've probably ever met, and that was great to have around meca.
She gave an artist presentation to the school that had a bigger turnout than any other artist presentation i've been to at meca and a Zine workshop for 2 days which I attended and came up with my own little zine. she also came to our gd studios and gave one on one talks with us about are art since we are all starting our senior thesis projects and are all pretty nervous and consumed in that. the workshop was also a good break from being in the studio not getting much done on the thesis project. I've made it a goal for myself to get off of the computer more.
Here's a flyer for her visit and some pictures from the workshop.







Kate made her own MECA zine for all of us who attended and gave out buttons, posters and other crafty things. also had a goco machine on hand and a button maker. "thanks for letting us attack your button machine when you left Kate! we made an insane amount of buttons!"


This is my zine i made for the workshop, its a very simple idea, I just decided to go around for the day and take pictures of some of my friends and other people in the workshop and draw them, I wanted to pictures to look like the person but be alittle different by adding my own hand touch to them. My friend Shayna drew the cover image, its a picture of me since I didnt draw one of myself.
"These drawings are also the first ones that i made, i didnt do any mess up's, I just went with the first one that I made of each person."