• Bart Healy, Collingswood NJ
• Don Bronson, Clearfield UT
• Tracy Leuth, Bettendorf IA
• Linda Freund, Simi Valley CA
• Marilyn Doerter, Elida OH
• Kurt Jacobson, Anchorage AK
• Loisanne Kelle, Tucson AZ
• April Lopez, Kennewick WA
• Susan Genge, Crawford CO
• Crysteelaurie Abrams

Cool poster via HOW.

You can watch a preview below that describes Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, an installation piece in the Brooklyn Museum.

The boxes at right are just a portion of the approximately 1,500 entries we got in our call to artists over 60. (That number's just an educated guess on my part. We definitely got more than 700 e-mailed entries, and I lost track of how many envelopes we received.)

There have been more than 20 studies that suggest an increased rate of bipolar and depressive illnesses in highly creative people, says Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and author of the "An Unquiet Mind," a memoir of living with bipolar disorder.

Experts say mental illness does not necessarily cause creativity, nor does creativity necessarily contribute to mental illness, but a certain ruminating personality type may contribute to both mental health issues and art.

Three of the elder statesmen of comic books — Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee ... are lending their talents to tell the tale of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, who survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has steadfastly refused to return it.

We're bringing it back for an encore! If you (or someone you know) are a fabulous artist 60 or older, we want to know!

Feel free to nominate yourself—we won't think you're conceited! (But please don't have all your friends, relatives and neighbors e-mail us. This isn't a popularity contest—we only need your name once for you to be in the running.)

And because our intention is to showcase artists unfamiliar to us, we ask those artists who were among the 2008 crop of "Splendid over 60" and/or have had their work featured in The Artist's Magazine within the last three years to give others a chance.

How to enter: Send five to 10 images (on a CD, as slides, or visible on a website) and the artist's name, birth date and contact information (e-mail, phone and/or mailing address). We regret that we can only return materials if they are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not, under any circumstances, send the only existing copies of your slides or prints!

The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2008.

E-mail your submission to over60@fwpubs.com, or mail it to:
Artists over 60
The Artist's Magazine
4700 E. Galbraith Road
Cincinnati OH 45236

We ask, too, that you please refrain from calling or e-mailing us to check if we received your submission; we cannot respond to every submission. We will get in touch with the selected artists by the end of October.

Make sure to read the March 2009 issue of The Artist's Magazine to see who makes the cut!

We just launched ArtistsNetwork.tv, a site chockablock with instructional videos from leading contemporary artists, such as recent Artist's Magazine contributors M. Katherine Hurley and Costa Vavagiakis.

Members can view videos 24/7 from any computer with a high-speed internet connection—no software downloads required. You can buy access to a single workshop video, or if you want an all-access pass, you can subscribe to all ArtistsNetwork.tv video workshops for six months. You can preview the videos for free before you buy, so check out the site today!