Recently, there has been quite a bit of controversy in New York City regarding Mayor Bloomberg’s and Adrian Benepe’s effort to limit artists from displaying and selling work near city parks. Well that definitely throws a big monkeywrench in our 2010 plans for Union Square. Check out this pretty neat letter written by my husband fighting this proposed change. You guys can get in on the action too! Email the silly Parks Commissioner and his attorney and tell them that they are greedy and lame for proposing such rules. If this bill passes, Ecopatterns will likely be done with Union Square for the forseeable future.

Nevertheless, this does not thwart our efforts to find better, and more legitimate venues to continue our fight to raise awareness for endangered animals. We spent the past week scouting out new spots to display our growing lineup of artwork and tees. We’d like to announce that this coming Sunday (April 11th), we will be debuting our work at the GreenFlea on Columbus Avenue & 77th Street (Upper West Side). Definitely swing by and check out our new digs and also have a first peek at our new Panthera Tigris shirts! Of course, this is an evaluation period for us and we are still figuring out whether this market gels with us. At least it’s closer to where we live, and the city can’t kick us out of there.

HA! We gotcha. April Fools. If you followed one of our various social network links, you must have been thinking, WTH? But if you stumbled upon this blog without our clever little links, I guess we’re the fools – haha. Anyhow, I wanted to take this cat-like, sly opportunity to re-introduce one of my favourite patterns. Earlier in February, I designed and painted a new piece in honor of one of the most revered species on this planet in it’s Chinese zodiac calendar year. Being that this past weekend was a complete washout, it didn’t stop me from being productive and looking ahead. Added to our patterns lineup was a familiar face – the face of Panthera Tigris in full line-art form! You know what that means right? New T-Shirts are on the way. Woo-hoo! I will be burning the screen sometime next week and hand-screening them onto a new batch of shirts shortly after. Look out for updates here and on our new twitter account. Now I’ve got to round up my models to make them look even better. Angela, Jimmy… do you hear me?

In other news, I got a lovely little shout from Invitation Buzz last week. Thanks guys! You absolutely rule. Check out their site for buzzworthy stationery.