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​The annual subscription for ART DOLLS Magazine is $24.95 for 6 issues (approximately one every two months), which also includes access to the subscribers only portion of the website where we have included the availability to read and download every digital DOLLS magazine edition from 2015 to the present, once a subscription is processed.

ART DOLLS Magazine has many ways you (as a collector or creator), your club, or your event may be seen on our website and in the magazine for free!

By sharing with other doll collectors and creators, we make the world a better place!

SPEAKING OF DEADLINES - today is your last day to submit a picture of your doll to share for World Doll Day on the ART DOLLS Magazine website. 

For rules and how to apply - click here.

Do you know of a future doll event that others might like to know about?  We post events both on the ART DOLLS Magazine website and in each issue of the magazine.  Fill out the Submission Form and help us spread the word to both doll creators and collectors!

​So, you have not heard of World Doll Day?  This is not surprising as of an hour ago, I hadn't conceived the idea. To make it happen. I need cooperation of every doll collector, every magazine editor, doll newsletter, doll shop, library, doll maker, mother, grand­mother, father, grandfather, and all the stray aunts and uncles. The first World Doll Day is the Second Saturday of June 1986. Give a doll to a grownup, child in the family or just a friend.  If you don't have a child to give a doll to - find one. There are many children with no dolls.

Think of it this way and ship a doll to another country.  I have always felt that the common doll could be an instrument of world understanding. From the first time I started writing books on doll making, I had the hope that dolls would help make friends all over the world and develop a little love among all.

World Doll Day will also be a day for doll exhibits. It is my hope that all libraries will have a special doll exhibit. Museums will publicize their doll exhibits and have special doll exhibits at this time.  Magazines will put out special editions.  Doll stores will put on campaigns weeks ahead.  Doll Makers will make special dolls for World Doll Day.  There will be doll competitions with World Doll Day awards, plaques and trophies.

The logo is made from artist Boots Tyner's doll representing a child. The child carries a German bisque doll to represent this doll collectors gift.  Feel free to copy the logo or have one made.

Everyone can enjoy the fun as there are no fees, no permission needed, no obligations, nobody owns the day, no club, no company.  It's a free- for- all, take up the day, its ideas and fly with it.  Lets do it now.  World Doll Day.

If you think World Doll Day is a good idea, then appoint yourself a committee of one to do something about it--only then can it become a reality.  Would you tell five people,  ask them to tell five people, and each of them tell five people and so on.  World Doll Day's birthday is June 14, 1986.

Sincerely,
Mil and Vernon Seeley

P.S. This letter may be copied and copied again and again until the world knows about World Doll Day.

Submit your doll in celebration of World Doll Day for the ART DOLLS Magazine website at:  ​www.artdollsmagazine.com/forms.html.

AI is automation at a level of where you could tell the computer to make me an image of a person doing something and you could end up with a realistic image of someone drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.  The program made all of the decisions within the guidelines you established. 

At ART DOLLS Magazine, AI will not be used to create realistic images of people, but may be used to enhance graphic images such as this heart warming puppy. (Do you know how hard it is to make a puppy sit still and how many pictures it would take to get the right look... let alone go find a puppy when you don't own one?)

​We will not use AI in writing articles for the magazine and writers submitting an article must state that AI was not used to write the article or generate a doll image.

It also means when ART DOLLS Magazine publishes Updates, Posts, and in each issue of the ART DOLLS Magazine it does not use AI when using doll images or people.  There is no question of “is this AI or not?”  If it looks “real”, it is real.

Because of that, when it is time to get out information sometimes there needs to be a catchy image to go with it.  Then we use clip art and sometimes AI generated images but only when there is no doubt that the image was AI generated.  That is why the cartoonish graphic art look to the images.  It is intentional.  Just as the graphic art of “Tony, the Tiger” was created for Cornflakes and the three little chefs for Rice Krispies cereal created with computer software to make them move, AI may be used to catch your eye, but never to mislead you here at ART DOLLS Magazine. 

In this world where it is going to be harder to know what is real and what isn’t, ART DOLLS Magazine doesn’t want to add to that confusion.  When people send in their images, we will use them.  We will use graphic programs for enhancements, such as removing backgrounds, but we will not generate “real looking” people or dolls for promotion or articles.  This is the trust we at ART DOLLS Magazine hope to build through understanding what it is real and true to the ART of communication.

This is where ART DOLLS Magazine come in.  We would love to help promote the Doll Clubs.  Keep in mind we only had three weeks to create our first issue.  There is no history for us to go to for connecting with the Doll Clubs.

Let us know who you are.  What are you doing and do you offer in person doll meetings or online? 

The International Art Doll Registry (IADR) has an informal doll club though we call it a gathering as we are a hodgepodge group.  We are an online group from around the world.  Mostly we talk about doll making and costume designs but we also are known to discuss the weather just because it is fun to hang out with other doll makers.  The Shylock Doll Gathering has been open mainly to IADR members, but we love talking to other doll lovers too.  For more information contact Lesley at iadregistry@outlook.com.  No fee to join the doll group, but you will have to share a little bit about yourself as only doll lovers are accepted *smiling*.

Keep in mind, to have a shout-out in the magazine is FREE.  Just go to the forms section on the website and choose the one for Doll Clubs to tell us about your Club. If you are hosting a non-profit doll event, you can have that announced under the EVENTS in the magazine for FREE as well.  

The Basic Directory option with a fee of $45.00 annually, includes an entry in one category which includes a 500-word narrative, one image or picture (such as a logo), and contact information with two hyperlinks.

The Directory Plus option with an annual fee of $85.00 includes entry in one category with space for a 1000-word narrative, ten images or pictures, and contact information with five hyperlinks.  If you have a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) narrative - we will include that also!

Visit this link to see an example of how a Directory Plus listing could look like for your entry:  Dolls Tools & Supplies​

REMEMBER - We like to share your news!  Go to the FORMS tab on the website navigation bar and submit your entry for the Collector Corner, Doll Scene, Doll Club News, an Event, or an article to be included in an upcoming issue of the ART DOLLS Magazine.  Submission deadlines for the next edition (Summer) is May 1st, 2026.  To see all deadlines - click here. 

​Step 2.  Click on the LOG IN | REGISTER link in the navigation bar at the top of the page (circled below).

First of all - DOLLS magazine is no longer being published.  There is no printed version anymore.  They had already decided they would no longer offer the printed copy and were moving towards digital copies only.  I don't know why they then decided to simply end DOLLS magazine, but glad they were open to talking to the IADR so that we can keep the "light on" for Doll Collectors and Doll Artists and more.  They have been terrific in the transition of ownership and we are grateful to them!

What made this transition possible is because the International Art Doll Registry (IADR) already offered a digital magazine.  We want to keep what made DOLLS special and blend it with a little love and interest to evolve into the new ART DOLLS Magazine.  So, when you see these adds offering to sell you past or current issues of DOLLS, they are a "ripoff".  (Notice the white line by the shoes of the doll - that was probably a subscription tag that was ripped off of the magazine to take the picture!).  

​Please note - there is currently only one way to receive the new magazine and also still have access to past "digital" issues of DOLLS and that is on this new ART DOLLS Magazine site.  For subscription information, please visit:

                      www.ARTDOLLSMagazine.com/subscription.html

​If you have a subscription with a magazine company that has automated billing, please contact them so they do not continue to bill you for another subscription as we currently have no contracts with any of them.

The annual subscription for ART DOLLS Magazine is $24.95 for 6 issues (approximately one every two months), which also includes access to the subscribers only portion of the website where we have included the availability to read and download every digital DOLLS magazine edition from 2015 to the present, once a subscription is processed.

For the current subscribers to DOLLS magazine, we have agreed with the former owners to fulfill you subscriptions but as a digital magazine only.  

The ART DOLLS Magazine will still be the voice for Doll Collectors, Doll Historians, Doll Lovers, and Doll Artists as the DOLLS magazine was such a place and we want to keep that community alive and growing.