Anti Racist T-shirt-Art Contest Tour (ART-ACT)

Rules and How to Enter
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THEME: Submit your anti-racist or pro-diversity image, ...an anti-racist image , a vision that explains the history or cause's of racism, or which illustrates examples of individual or institutional racism, or which envisions a new community of diversity and harmony. Or explore those moments when people overcome barriers of race to come together - or illustrate solutions to racism and hatred. Click here to discuss how you see the art submitted fits (or does not) our theme, or to discuss the wording of our theme. You can help others who might enter this T-shirt art contest.

CATEGORIES:
Black & White
Create your vision with black markers or pen & ink on white paper
Prize - $500

Color
Create your vision in full color art.
Prize - $50

DEADLINE: August 1, 2008

ART-ACT RULES

We reserve the right to use your art to promote ART-ACT and will post your art until you - the artist - instruct us otherwise. The Names of winners accepting their prizes will be perminently post on our site and their art perminantly posted. Black and White winners must sign a license agreement in order to claim their prize, allowing us to sell their art on t-shirts for which we will pay the artist $2 per retail sale and $1 per wholesale sale per t-shirt sold.

Our goal is to build a mountain of visual evidence in support of diversity and against racism. We will report to you our efforts promoting your art in ART-ACT Notes.

Help us get the ball rolling by entering early. Check back monthly to see this contest grow.

As a 501(c)(3) Federal Tax Exempt non-profit organization we invite contributions, cash or in-kind donations which we can auction to raise money for prizes. Click here to help promote this contest and to help raise money for prizes.

Why the Limitation to graphic designs?

(Art Reasons) It is an artistic challenge to render an idea with the basics.

(Survival reason) Black and white designs are easy to make screens to print this art on T-shirts without spending lots of time and money. This makes it possible to award license contracts to deserving artists and to jump start our Internet business selling your t-shirt designs.

Visit our License Page to download a license form. You get $2 for each retail t-shirt sold. All profits will go to support the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center. Yes - your art can fight racism, help to build an inner-city art center in Chicago, and pay you fees for each shirt sold! Win-win-win!!!

How to Enter

A) By E-mail
To enter ART-ACT send us by e-mail your name, a mailing address, your bio and attach your art as a gif or jpg file at about 72 pixels per inch resolution. Optionally, please include your web site if you have one or any site address that features your art work. You may include an artists statement, a resume or whatever else you would like us to post about you.

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B) By Postal Letter
Send a high quality Xerox copy of the original art with your information (as above> to UM-CAC at 1630 West Wilson Avenue, Chicago, IL 60640.

Other Rules
No more than three submissions by any one artist will be accepted in the contest in all categories combined. We will post more than three images if an artist is enthusiastic about our theme but that artist must take responsibility to inform us which three they wish to be judged.

We reserve the right to not post designs that we (our artist staffed committee) feel do not fit the theme. If we decide not to include an image, the artist will have the opportunity to explain why their rejected image does fit our theme. Our committee will review their written statements sent us and make a final decision.

We Promote Your Art

The "Anti Racist T-shirt-Art Contest Tour" exhibit will seek other ways of showing your images through exhibits in real space and by our ART-ACT Exhibit Without Walls We work hard to provide your work exposure. It will continue to grow through fall of 2004. ART-ACT will be featured in our annual T-shirt Art Harvest Festivals.

MAKE MONEY - SELL YOUR ART

Want your image to be considered for a license contract?
Click here License Agreement Download to download a copy of our license agreement. You make $2 on every retail sale of your t-shirt art.

Or click here to E-mail ART-ACT a request for a hard-copy license agreement to be sent to you. In the e-mail you send - request the license agreement and give us an address to send it to. Then fill out the license and include it with your art contest entry.

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