M12 will be presenting at the Meadowcreek Roundtable in Fox, Arkansas

Richard is teaching the Art and Rural Environments Field School at CU-Boulder which begins this week.

Wapke Feenstra will be in Colorado to work with the M12 Collective and the Future Farmers of America – Byers Chapter. Wapke will also visit with students at CU in Boulder and give a lecture on April 02.

Richard will be speaking about M12 at the Rustbelt Conference in St. Louis, MO on April 13, 2012

Richard will be heading over to Green River, UT next week to visit EPICENTER. Richard’s project “The Majestics” will be shown there this summer as part of his Frontier Fellowship. For those of you that don’t know about Maria and Jack’s amazing work in Green River check it out here http://ruralandproud.org/

Students in Richard’s Experimental Structures course at CU-Boulder will open their second project on Thursday evening at 5PM. Their work will be up for a couple weeks and is located in the Visual Arts C0mplex, studios 360 and 372

Peter de Kan a graphic designer from Holland will be in town for a week working with Richard and Margo Handwerker on their new book “A Decade of Country Hits.” The book will explore 10 years of Richard’s practice in small rural communities along with historical commentary and collaborations with some 15 plus contributors.

Chip Thomas is in Colorado this weekend with M12 preparing research for his summer project. Chip will work with Joe Turecek from Byers, CO on a new work.

Matthew Fluharty has posted a nice piece on the Ornitarium on Art of the Rural

M12 will be moving it’s rural extension office from Yuma County to just outside the town of Last Chance in Washington County. Contacting the M12 Collective can still be accomplished through emailing info@M12studio.org or through the Denver office:

M12 Office for Connective Aesthetics
3455 Ringsby Court, Suite #110
Denver, Colo. 80216