Given my interest in both books and bicycles, here’s a announcement I got from my friend Colleen about her new project, Papergirl:
Papergirl is a new San Francisco community art project with an open call for entries and community distribution by bicycle…. the only limitation for submissions: all artwork must be roll-able as it will eventually find its way into the receiver’s hand by roadside bicycle delivery….Papergirl is prints, drawings, stencils, textiles, and hard work rolled up into an accessible art project. It is mail-art meets old-school delivery system. The project is participatory, non-commercial, and impulsive in which rolled art pieces are distributed by bicycle in the style of American paperboys to random passers-by in the streets of San Francisco for free. Before the work is rolled up and distributed, the work will be exhibited in a non-traditional gallery space.
There’s a similar project in Berlin — see pictures here. And you can follow Papergirl on their blog.