Made from recycled sweaters, these madworld koozies are fashionable and utilitarian.

Just twelve dollars each, they are also available at wholesale pricing. Email meredith @madworlddesigns.com for more pricing information or to order.

The madworld retail store is relocating and will be opening in the spring in a new Portland location, so stay tuned!
In the meantime, I will be working out of my Portland wholesale studio until we re-open the retail arm of the business.

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For information about installations, custom designs, or mad wholesale products please email meredith [ at] madworlddesigns [dot ] com.

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live your chaos. love the madness.......I sure am
kindly, madgirl

Zach Jones, well known as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the band As Fast As has appeared on stages across the country at venues such as New York's Irving Plaza, Denver's Fillmore Auditorium and San Francisco's Warfield Theater opening shows for the likes of Maroon 5, OAR, Butch Walker, INXS, Gavin DeGraw, John Fogarty and more. Zach will play live solo sets for us between 8 and 10 pm so wear your dancing shoes! We have his cds Broken Record and Fading Flowers here in the Local Music Listening Lounge and we're really honored and happy he'll provide the music for First Friday! Plan to party 8-10 with us!

www.zachjonestunes.com

Local Sprouts will provide snacks!

Wee Wee and Poop Man comic artist Pete Giordano The infamous cartoon zine artist framed up his work and converted the watercloset into an shrine, even the accessories match. Come spend some quality time reading before July is upon us..

July installation:

In The Water Closet Gallery, Greg Day takes over! Greg Day is a painter with roots in rural Maine. Day has had a life-long fascination with space, light and the relationship between the organic and the engineered.

You may know him for Elva or his former exhibition at the Hay Gallery! Greg gets free reign to surprise us with his Water Closet installation which opens Friday July 1, for the month of July!

Next up for this month is collage artist Suzanne Louise who describes her collage collection "Last Look" like this:

I am very interested in signs, symbols, art history, iconography, fate and chance. My work is layered with specific images from artists I like and random images. I enjoy the process of creating relationships between different times, artists and cultures. I think my process and end product is very similar to writing haiku. They are a form of visual haiku. This particular body of work "Last Look" is site specific, meaning that I created with the energy of Mad Girl World in mind.

• The madclub spring corner offers a twist on golf, yacht and tennis club clothing. Lots of Argile, pretty pastels and polos gone mad.
• The madamericana corner is nothing but red, white and blue baby. Show up to your 4th of July picnic in madstyle.
• The madcountry corner has the wildest overalls you will ever encounter, tractor t-shirts and the best straw hats for your favorite maine outdoor music festival. 
• The madmusic corner opposite our local music listening lounge offers everything in the color of rocker. Including the infamous Hutch Heelan Trucker Hats.
• The madchill vintage winter corner is still out on display and It's all 25% off.
• The madhunt fall corner has lots of fun flannel, camo and hunter orange. out of the maine woods lives on!
• The LIVEme corner is dedicated to my friend Chris Avantaggio's lifestyle brand celebrating all things awesome about living in Maine. BEERme, SURFme, SAILme, BIKEme, FARMme and LOVEme to the t-shirt options for men and women.  Also, pint glasses, mugs, stickers, baby onesies, t-shirt options for men and women.  

www.colemanburke.com

www.portcitymusichall.com

1. I just finished a photo shoot with Jill McGowan's for her fall catalog. I styled the photo shoot and provided all the madaccesories  to compliment her "great white shirt", it included hats, gloves, shoes, purses and jewelry. Jill's catalog will be out in about 5 weeks. It was sooooooo much fun! This will be amazing exposure and I really thank Jill and her sister Jolene for thinking of me to hire. I am honored. I have been selling the one of a kind things I made for the shoot at the madhouse and they have been flying out the door. :)

2. I have begun the process of transitioning our umbrella company name to madworld designs (more user friendly to the madman in the big wide world). you will slowly see all web and print material transition. This of course takes a while so in the meantime old emails and websites are linked so we don't lose connection with anyone. Yah for technology. Thank you  Thank you to Nick Callanan at No Umbrella Media. I couldn't ask for a better web manager.

3. The madness is now available wholesale to fun colorful stores outside the Portland Maine area. Here is the link to the wholesale linesheet.  I am trying to get the word out, so if you know of anyone who owns a store with fun colorful style that might be a good match please let me know so I can contact them. meredith@madworlddesigns.com It is so exciting to move to grow the next level of owning a lifestyle brand company. "live your chaos. love the madness"  I live this mantra daily......happy spring everyone xoxoxox madgirl

Exhibit Details - Baseband consists of a combination of 2-D and 3-D pieces tied together with common materials. It includes a sculptural piece crafted from cardboard and hot glue which has been covered in the tape taken from inside of VHS tapes as well as black electrical tape. The 2-D images are individual units, but together make up a series. They are also made with this tape which I have combined with white paper and wood for the structure of the frames. The idea behind the project is to recycle someone's Jessica Alba obsession and use the material that would produce an image on a TV to create images and dimensions that are unique to the material itself. The tape has a brilliant reflective sheen to it that I was pleasently surprised to find upon dissecting a tape and which, interestingly, contrasts with the dull, faded picture that would appear were the VHS's played through a VCR.

Title: Baseband

Artist: Sam Gilbert
Materials: VHS tape, paper, cardboard and wood

...Tons of Toys and Loads of Love

Thank you to everyone who visited me during the daily elf hours from 4-8pm for the whole month of December. Families and individuals stopped in with toys, stocking stuffers, cookies, candy, dinner, smiles and my favorite, "elf nog".

The donations went to Toys for Tots and Barbara Bush Childrens Hospital. It was a magical experience. I met so many wonderful new people and was so proud of the community support behind the project. Plans are already circulating on next year and how the project can include others who would like to sew recycled mad elf stockings with me. I would be honored. And lastly here's to the children whose eminent smiles I felt all the way from the pom pom on my head to the jingle bells on my toes as walked around the studio in elfin madness.

Thank you again to all who helped. Santa was watching.

Till next December.

Xoxox the madelf