Notes from a Mid-Summer's night....

Greetings,

It has been a busy and successful summer....we've spent most of it hiding from the sun....as we all know, the wicked play in the darkness....

We'd like to take a moment of your time to thank the malcontents that are Prometheus Burning for a brutal evening at Displaced & Disorderly. This was one of our most successful events and we can't thank them enough for including us in the release of their new album "Displacement Disorder" and letting Macabre stab herself multiple times and dance around like a large, angry bird on your stage (it's what she does best). Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the underground that evening.

On to new debauchery.... We are pleased to announce that we will be joining all of the creeps at Horrorfind Weekend Convention in Gettysburg, September 3-5. We will be peddling our limbs and oddities in the dealer room all weekend. http://www.horrorfindweekend.com/ There are still weekend passes available, but hotel accomodations are filling fast. We hope you will come out and join us for the weekend.

(Note: If we're not at our booth, we will be found kneeling at the feet of Nivek Ogre and Clive Barker.)

In preparation for convention, we will be pumping out new oddities regularly for both fundraising for the event in our shoppe and to supply our table through out the weekend. Expect to be seeing our patches, shirts, and new artworks hitting the shoppe throughout the upcoming weeks. Since the success of the Morose & Macabre Conjoined Twin Coffin patch, we will be adding this to our shoppe for purchase, as it has previously been limited to shows.

We will be joining the Steel City Steam Society on August 21st from 5pm to 11pm at Revolutionaries Cafe and will be displaying a few wares for their Leo Birthday Bash. It'll be a steampunk birthday bash for Leos. You can also find our own Macabre burlesquing her way to their next big to-do in September with her wicked sisters of the Bridge City Bombshells.

In the meantime, we will also be taking the first weekend in August away at the hub of all that is spooky in PA, The Grand Midway Haunted Hotel www.iliveinahauntedhotel.com in Winbur for their exclusive Kerouac Fest. Our wicked, little shoppe will be closed for that weekend we are away.

Until we meet again....as always....

Parting is such sweet sorrow,

Morose & Macabre

Morose & Macabre are Displace & Disorderly

Greetings,

We have been given the pleasure of displaying at Prometheus Burning's CD Release of their new album Displacement Disorder on July 24th with I, Parasite and Surachai. We will be displaying our works along with our fellow artist creeps and our own Macabre Noir will be performing a painful, little number.

We'd like to take a moment to thank Nikki and Gregg of ProBurn, comrades of the deeply disturbed, for inviting us to be involved.

Also, we have updated The House, and it will soon be phasing again....we've been thinking about some redecorating.....it's just never dark quite dark enough in here.....

Parting is such sweet sorrow,

Morose & Macabre

Many wicked thanks, and murderous things to come....

Greetings,
We're just coming out of a busy weekend full of debauchery and heading into our next wicked endeavors. We'd like to take a moment to thank all of the malcontents who came out to support us at Treacherous Tea this past weekend. It's always nice to see all of our friends and creeps at these events and we appreciate all of you.
We just listed in our Wicked, Little Shoppe on Etsy all of the exclusive creations made for the event that did not find homes, so that those who weren't able to make it can have a piece of the poisonous pie.
We will have the shoppe open until Tuesday, June 22, when we will be pulling all of our oddities and heading to the Waterloo Arts Festival in Cleveland, OH on June 26th. We hope those of our local Ohio creeps will come join us while we bake our dead-pale asses in the June sun and heat peddling our oddities.
So that everyone knows, Atrocity Exhibition is upon us and we depend on you to make these events happen. All of the sales that are coming in are going to be funding this year's event, so your purchases are appreciated now more than ever. With the House fully rolling, we are setting our goal to be able to fund the event entirely from our art sales. Even if you can't afford our pieces, we always appreciate re-posting and spreading the word on our social networking sites. Anything you can do, is always a giant help, and as always, we are forever in our supporters' debt.
Lastly, a special thanks is going out to Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc and Cannibal Rose at Twisted Dreams Magazine for the feature on our Arachnophilia Collection. It was an amazing surprise to see us in print and a million thank yous are in order. Andrea and Cannibal Rose have been an amazing support network and we love them both dearly. Thank you, again and again.
Check out the zine at www.myspace.com/twisteddreamsmagazine
Wicked is, as wicked does,
Macabre Noir

Hell-o weirdos!

Dr. M here. We're currently in the studio working... finishing up noose ends.. err.. LOOSE ends in our preparation for Treacherous Tea. We've managed to complete a pretty gruesome batch of new neckwear, all of which will be for sale at our spooky little tea party. Oh, and there'll be free cupcakes. Did we mention that? The recipe was passed down from our dear old Auntie Lucifer.

We're still in the planning stages for the next Atrocity Exhibition, but we [almost certainly] have our theme in mind. We still have a long way to go and a lot to figure out, but this will be another horrific event not to be missed. We're hoping to see some of you who couldn't make it last time! As always, we'll have some wicked talent and grotesque art to make you uneasy.

Miss Macabre is working on another painting as I write this, and we have some other tricks up our sleeves. Back to work! No rest for the wicked, after all.

Until next time, stay sick!
-Dr M.

Treacherous Tea

It has come to our attention that we've been neglecting our local creeps. A lot of folks hesitate when purchasing from the shoppe because of the shipping cost and we completely understand. We don't sell our oddities at local consignment shoppes and galleries because we'd have to charge an astronomical amount in order to break even on the sale. Atrocity Exhibition only rolls around once a year and it is a giant all-evening event with a cover charge.

We've come up with a solution to both bring together the local spookies and make our work available....with no cover charge, or shipping, or stores.

Treacherous Tea will be our first small showcasing in the Pittsburgh area. It will be a free event that will feature our collection of odd Strangulation wearable art. This will be a Victorian gothic tea party and those who attend are more than welcome to dress the theme, it's not required....but, what's the fun in that?

We will be holding Treacherous Tea at The HKan in the southside of Pittsburgh (2210 East Carson Street) on Sunday, June 13, 2010 from 6-8:30. We'll be bringing with us some of our smaller art pieces and jewelry including our ugly, little darlings the Homunculi girls and 2 exclusive Arachnophilia (real spider web jewelry) Collection pieces.

We extend the offer that if anyone is interested in a larger piece from the shoppe, to email us with a reserve request, these requests will require a $10 deposit via Paypal.

We've also had a lot of comments regarding folks who are NOT from the area that wish they could attend the event, we are always open to smaller locations outside of our area to host similar events. You can always email us with ideas and locations, we love to spread the spooky to new places.

Any questions, comments, concerns, or reserves can be directed to: inquiry@moroseandmacabre.com

In the beginning....there were these two creeps.....

In early 2009, a little house was built in a sea of dark artists, designers, and jewelry makers on the internet.

We were two independent artists from the rural areas of Western Pennsylvania trying to reach out for some recognition in a small and low income community. Indepent artists and misfits that had been deemed "freaks" all of our lives, the collaboration was never planned, in was born out of frustration and lack of the community's respect for a "darker art form". People from the area weren't buying art, very much less supporting the kind of creations that we were producing independently. Only able to showcase at "halloween shows", our work was only appreciated once a year and never actually purchased to hang in local homes, aside from friends who shared our love of odd.

We started as friends hanging out and having morbid, little painting parties for fun. After working with each other for a time, it was fairly clear that we were able to motivate each other and that was what we were lacking seperately. We call it "one upping". One of us would paint something phenomenal and it would drive the other to want to create something equally amazing, if not better.

We had previously discussed doing a website featuring our designs and illustrations on tee shirts, but we were discovering that there was a whole other spectrum to our creativity. Our paintings eerily collaborated with one and other, although they were crafted with different techniques. Our color schemes and thoughts were meshing together in some sort of creepy harmony and were forming a collection without intention. Our website tumbled from morbidly sarcastic tee shirt designs, into a gallery for neo victorian inspired horror art.

We painted and we planned in the months that followed as we built the site and began networking before our launch. We built our profiles on social networking sites and began teasing people with our dark senses of humor and the promise that "something wicked this way comes".

In February of 2009, The House of Oddities was born. It was inhabited by those dark, little voices in the back of our minds that most people ignore. We named them Dr. Morose and Miss Macabre and instead of keeping them locked up, we built them a house to run rampant.

By the end of February we were producing artworks, post mortem shadow boxes, dolls, and simple jewelry made from pewter stampings and began selling them in our Wicked, Little Shoppe via Etsy.

Although not prepared or planning for any sort of immediate success, to our surprise, our oddities were selling......well.

Shortly after, we hit the road. We built 2 giant, bloody walls with mounts for paintings and strapped them awkwardly a top a Ford Focus hatch back and headed south in the cramped, art-packed car. Morose & Macabre's House of Oddites made our first public appearance as a collaborative in Charlotte, North Carolina in late May and early June of 2009 at Shiprocked! and Kabarett Vulgare. With the help of our dear friend, Deville, it was a flying success.

Since then, we have traveled, shown, and evolved at an amazing rate that neither of us had ever hoped, nor dared dream. Our jewelry has snowballed from simple pewter stampings on chain, to hand crafted wearable art in our Strangulations collection and Arachnophilia collection. Our paintings continue to collaborate all on their own and now incorporate mixed medias of both fibers and dead things. We branched out to do a fully dimensional installation monstrosity which we lovingly named "Mary".

Best of all, we became ring masters for the Atrocity Exhibition, Morose & Macabre's first independent event that houses sideshow entertainers and showcases our fellow dark artists and artisans. The first event was a raging success and we were not only able to promote our work, but bring all of our misfit friends and comrades together from all over for one unforgettable evening and share our success with these talented folks who supported US for so long.

That brings us to the present....

We have so much more to come. We have so many people to thank. Most of all, our supporters. We are constantly being appologized to for not "being able to afford" our work. In all honestly (from the bottom of both our black, little hearts), it's not the money that keeps us going. It's the feedback, the appreciation, and the encouragment from all of those creeps out there who know what it's like to be a little odd. YOU are what we were missing and are the final piece of The House of Oddities and it's completion and success. We can never thank you enough for supporting two deeply disturbed, independent artists.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Sincerely,

Morose & Macabre