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ART PATCH PROJECT DESIGN SUBMISSION INFO E-mail umcac@art-teez.org to SUBMIT Patch designs to the Free Speech Artists' Movement Donate A corner off your art to support freedom!Your art can help us organize to creatively cultivate our speech rights here in Chicago. Why? Because the City has limited our right to sell our speech/art locally. Chicago's laws and parks policies have strangled any hope of organizing in Chicago on-going open-air art scenes where artists can sell their art freely.The Free Speech Artists' Movement is using the humble patch as a forum to create a discussion of your rights. We seek your art – your expressions – for patch designs that we will print and give-away to the public. On each patch outside the artwork we will add your name, your copyright, the artwork title, your website or email and the Free Speech Artists' Movement website plug. When we field more than twenty-four designs we will have enough to capture the public's imagination on any art-patch give-away adventure we embark on. To raise funds to make Chicago more friendly to artists wishing to sell their art in public we will sell T-shirts on-line with the patch designs artists donate for this specific activity. Only the art patch version of the design (size of a pocket design) will be used. Larger versions of the design and without our text are left for the artist to market benefiting from the exposure the patch-art give-aways create. If you smell opportunity – start cooking. We are brewing a slow batch of good-idea-soup. We are starting now to find and train our volunteers. We are beginning to collect and select the art. This spring and summer we will form teams to print and give-away the patch-art promoting the artists participating and the Free Speech Artists' Movement. Our art acts will help to transform Chicago. There is no official theme but art on the theme of freedom, free speech, artists power, and justice issues of any type are more likely to inspire printing by volunteers than an abstract design. Cartoons and fine art sketches are fine. The Art Patch Project is a speak-out and/or art-jumps-out. Graphic black & white art, works well. The artist retains all copyrights and donates only the use of the design on patches for our on-line use to promote the Free Speech Artists' Movement and to sell T-shirts with the patch design logo until we gain our speech rights (or the artist notifies us in writing). To donate your black and white line art for patches e-mail us at umcac@art-teez.org attaching a 300 dpi graphic file and provide in the body of your e-mail your name, contact information, your website address if you have one, the title of your art, and a short bio or artist's statement. Or mail us a letter with your information and a copy of your art work on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of white paper to UM-CAC, 1630 W. Wilson Ave, Chicago IL 60640. This winter, spring and summer we will make screens of the best art for patches that we receive and volunteers who attend our screen print workshop will select the art they enjoy printing to produce art patches for give-away to the public to promote our Free Speech Artists' Movement website. Artists who have something to say on a patch and who want to screen and pass out their own patch design are invited to take our workshop and make a screen with our Movement website and your information. Free Speech Artists' Movement volunteers will print patches. Artists are welcome to come and print their patches to add to those available to the Movement Patch Promotion crews that go out in co-ordinated and un-co-ordinated public art-patch give-aways. Volunteers can choose which patches to give-away. We want to have as many possible designs for artists to choose from as possible. We will not try to censor the designs that are available and no one is encouraged to distribute art they dislike or disagree with. In the end we will exhibit all the patches artists have produced over the year in our “T-shirt Art Harvest Festival October 2-4th, 2009. We will repeat this exhibit annually building the body of patch-artwork until the social force of the art overwhelms the public an the laws that bind us are changed. By that time we will have created the awareness needed to make street art a cultural phenomenon in the City of Chicago. We recommend that you visit our “Screen Print Workshop for Artists” to better understand the screen print process. The patches will be printed around 5x3” in size. The exact size will very with the shape of the artwork you provide us. If you come through our screen print workshop and help us print art patches and teach, we will help you build a line of art patches of your own. There is room for everyone to get involved at whatever level they wish to be. Volunteers from the public at large are invited to learn how to screen print by helping us print patches. Volunteer Opportunities 1) Donate your art for use on art patches which we will give away this spring and summer to educate the public about our First Amendment right to sell our art on the streets and in the parks of Chicago. Reply asking for details. 2) Learn screen printing to print your art or someone else's art on patches for giving away on the street by volunteers this spring and summer. Reply asking for details. 3) Learn screen-printing to be on a two person crew printing art and giving it away on the streets in Chicago this spring and summer. Reply asking for details. 4) Help give away art on the streets in Chicago this spring and summer. Reply to pledge support. View Art Patch Project Patch Designs Click to print error proof "Art Patch Project" fliers. Print both sides and cut in quarters |
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