Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards (ATCs for short) are an international art project started in 1997 by the artist M. Vänçi Stirnemann. His goal was to make art accessible for everyone - and it worked! ATCs are traded around the world in person and via mail.

Join in on the project at the White Settlement Library! Ask at the front desk for our ATC kit, available for use in the Library. Trades can be made at the circulation desk or at ATC workshops. 

You may also visit other libraries with ATC programs to trade your cards. Some local libraries that have an ATC program are:

  • Azle Memorial Library 
  • Diamond Hill/Jarvis Library (Fort Worth Public Library branch)

Click here for to download a printable card template and guidelines.

Artist Trading Card By M. Vänçi Stirnemann, 2000

Artist Trading Card by M. Vanci Stirnemann, 2000
Yellow rose on card with decorative blue edges
Line drawing of planets
Art card with floral decorative tape
At card with line drawing of robot
2 panel comic with 2 figures and dialogue: "We only exist within an artist trading card!" "
Mouse holding a strawberry, dirt and plant in background
Art card on blue paper with heart
Art card with colored-in circles of different colors
Decorative yellow tape on card
Line drawing of person in a cartoon style
Art card with decorative glitter tape
Art card with landscape of trees on the shore with water
Stylistic lily pads, red heart in corner
Art card with polka-dotted circles of different colors
Art card depicting green hand
Art card with line drawing of cat