I will be making a PostSecret Presentation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on January 17th. There is also a wonderful PostSecret exhibit there now with over 400 actual PostSecret postcards and videos.

Be well,
-Frank

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For IA&A: Jennifer Gerow 202.338.0680 Email: jenniferg@artsandartists.org

In November 2004, Frank Warren handed out 3,000 postcards to strangers. He invited people to write down a secret anonymously and mail it to him. Each secret had to be true and something that had never been shared with another person. These initial secrets were exhibited in Washington, D.C., later that year. After the first exhibition closed, word of the project spread. People began crafting their own homemade postcards and the artful secrets began arriving from every continent.

Today, Warren has received more than 150,000 postcards and they continue to come at a rate of about 1,000 per week. Every Sunday, Warren posts secrets on his award-winning website (www.PostSecret.com), which has been viewed more than 100 million times. This international phenomenon has spawned three New York Times bestselling books with a fourth, A Lifetime of Secrets, published in October 2007. One of HarperCollins most sought after speakers, Warren has spoken at dozens of college campuses and appeared on international media including Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, BBC, CBC and NPR.

The PostSecret exhibition features more than 400 postcards that bring together the most powerful, poignant, and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received. Why is PostSecret so appealing? It is because Warren has tapped into the universal stuff of being human, the collective, often unconscious level of existence that defies age, culture, gender, and economics. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. The exhibition brilliantly reveals that human emotion can be unique and universal at the same time. The secrets are both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves are works of art. Carefully and creatively constructed by hand, the postcards are made from cardboard, old photographs, wedding invitations, and other personal items artfully decorated and have traveled to Warren from all over the world.

He continues to call himself an "accidental artist" because he has no artist background or training. "I have been asked many times why I started this. It still feels to me as though this project found me. All I try to do is make the right decisions every day to protect the integrity of the project-and learn to trust the journey."

The PostSecret exhibition is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C., and opens on November 24, 2007, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada. The exhibition will travel on to Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL; Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY; Minneapolis Public Library, MN; Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA; and the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT. Please go to http://www.artsandartists.org/exh.detail.php?exhID=33 for updates to the three-year tour schedule.

International Arts & Artists in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to promoting excellence in the arts-in all disciplines, styles and media. IA&A enriches cross-cultural understanding through its collaborations with museums and cultural institutions, showcasing artists and arts movements in traveling exhibitions to and from the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In addition to its traveling exhibition program, IA&A's Design Studio produces a variety of print and multi-media material to enhance promotion of the arts. The USArts International Training Program arranges training placements at arts-related institutions for undergraduates, graduates and young professionals from around the world.

November 24, 2007 through February 10, 2008
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada
http://www.wag.mb.ca/

OPEN for 8-week booking period
February 23, 2008 through April 20, 2008

May 17, 2008 through July 13, 2008
Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
http://www.artandscience.org/

July 26, 2008 through September 20, 2008
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
http://www.theyeiser.org/

October 4, 2008 through November 30, 2008
Minneapolis Public Library, MN
http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/

December 12, 2008 - February 13, 2009
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
http://www.fishergallery.org/
(Tentative)

March 1, 2009 through April 26, 2009
Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
http://www.bedfordgallery.org/
(Reserved)

May 16, 2009 through July 12, 2009
Miami-Dade Public Library, FL
http://www.mdpls.org/

OPEN for 8-week booking period
August 1, 2009 through September 26, 2009

October 2, 2009 through January 17, 2010
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
http://yellowstone.artmuseum.org/

February 13, 2010 through April 11, 2010
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
http://www.acadianacenterforthearts.org/

OPEN for 8-week booking period
May 1, 2010 through June 26, 2010

OPEN for 8-week booking period
July 10, 2010 through September 5, 2010

OPEN for 8-week booking period
September 25, 2010 through November 20, 2010

Confirmed = signed contract
Reserved = contract pending
Tentative = may be available to another venue, please call