The Madison Community Co-operative now proudly hosts the bottomlining artist (Francesco, or, Cesco, for short) of The Faces of Madtown, A Portrait-Story Project of The City of Four Lakes.

All Madisonians who build community or local economy, connect with their land or achieve self-empowerment, who make this city and bioregion a special place may include themselves by writing their narratives upon a portrait drawn and painted of them by The Portrait-Story artist – Co-op members especially are encouraged to write about their experience self-organizing as members of intentional communities.

Any intending self-inclusion in “Faces of Madtown” may visit Cesco at Ambrosia 225 East Lake Lawn Pl. on appointment – e-mail:
wanderer@riseup.net
Or, with his portable “studio” in tow, he can visit a participant at any warm space in the city – for more details:
http://facesofmadtown.org

This co-generative series of aesthetic self-documentation lives at an artisanal pace, with dozens of these entries of self-documentation currently manifested; we expect this art-media-social phenomena to reach the scale of previous Portrait-Story Projects – check them out:

http://portraitstoryproject.org
http://voicesforappalachia.org
http://www.mountainjustice.org/portrait_story_project/index.php
http://www.unitedmountaindefense.org/outreach_and_education.html
http://postkatrinaportraits.org

Reviews and other links:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/12/katrinas-apartheid-portraits-and-hand.html
http://pacificastudent.info/?p=316
http://appvoices.org/2010/06/08/portrait-story-project-highlights-ties-to-appalachia/
http://auroralights.org/map_project/theme.php?theme=crm&article=primary
http://www.footsloggers.com/portrait-story-project-highlights-ties-to-appalachia.html