Check out ART-ACT's latest submission. Charlene Teters t-shirt art submission speaks about the irresponsible use of racist mascots by sport teams to incite competitive spirit. This common practice in the U.S.A. accentuates stereotypes and legitimizes them. See "Mis-Education" at
http://www.art-teez.org/artists/ct1.htm

BUILDING AN ON-LINE VOLUNTEER CREW
How does a small community art center promote an Internet art contest and exhibit on the Internet? This mailing is one of the ways we do it. Our volunteer program is another way. Volunteers are beginning to sign-up two or three a week. I see this developing into a major resource. It is our key to a "sensation".

Art has a place in our communities and the Internet is composed of communities. Our goal is to create a strong community around the related issues of diversity and anti-racism using the art as a magnet.

Help build an Internet Community against Racism. Volunteer one hour a week. To read about the HELP we need - Click

http://www.art-teez.org/help_ara.htm

COLOR ART INVITED (for exhibit only) Extending ART-ACT to be an exhibit, we now allow an artist to exhibit a pro-diversity or anti-racist image in color if it is a GIF or JPEG file under 100 Kb. This policy development was influenced by the ART-ACT image this ART-ACT Notes announces. However, only the black and white line copy images can be eligible for the contest. This gives artists a way to show a wider variety of work that fights hate then previously allowed.

BUILDING MINI-MAIL LISTS UNDER ART WORKS
We will begin a local action passing out printouts of our ART-ACT images to get comments we can post below our sites art to help site visitors feel comfortable commenting by e-mail. Our goal is an active discussion over these images. Step by step, we are evolving our interactive on-line contest/exhibit concept. When this contest is over the site segment will continue to act promote the art submitted and fight for diversity sensitivity on the Internet.

Speak out on ART-ACT images and win a free t-shirt from our "Screen Print Workshop for Artists." A free t-shirt to the first and twenty-first commentator on artwork in our ART-ACT exhibit. Just click on COMMENTS below any image in ART-ACT and send us your thoughts.

Thanks for reading of us as we grow.

Chris Drew
umcac@art-teez.org
Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center
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