ART-ACT Notes 27 - Newsletter of the Anti-Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour

ART-ACT Notes 27 -- Newsletter of the "Anti-Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour"
© 1/6/2001 by the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center - All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

1) New Art for ART-ACT II
2) New Art from the Screen Print Workshop for Artists
3) A New Year and a New Contest
4) Web Site Developments - Founder adds his Art

NEW ART FOR ART-ACT II

Richard M. Smith - All of One Blood
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/rms1.htm

Carlos Cortez - Untitled
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/cc6.htm

Camillo Cumpian - Stop Racism
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/cbc1.htm

Vanessa Marie Disini Orquiza - Evil
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/vmdo1.htm

Evan Mathenson - Rainbow
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/em1.htm

Timothy B. Wimbley - Untitled
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/tbw1.htm

Irene Flores - Untitled
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/if1.htm

Zareen Shaukat - Art-Act Dove
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/zs1.htm

M. Santa Cecilia - Untitled
http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/msc1.htm

New Art from the "SCREEN PRINT WORKSHOP FOR ARTISTS

Finally - after two years of building a web site to showcase the art of
other artists in our Screen Print Workshop for Artists - I am showing off my
own work. Enjoy.
http://www.art-teez.org/cdrew/index_cd.htm

NEW CONTEST / NEW YEAR

YES! Wondering when or whether you would ever hear about ART-ACT again?

We are back and continuing to build steadily. This is the time that the brash boys in the retail Internet business are catching hell. The time of the easy venture capital is over. While others stress cutting-edge technology our web site is building flavor. Our site is seeking to do the slow hard work of building a community around the content of ART-ACT and our Screen Print Workshop for Artists. Our site does not depend on a well paid systems administrator and a team of HTML coders or site designers. Our site is powered by a lonely artist from a struggling community art center who has never been paid well (more often - not at all) and still stays up late at night working because that, too often, is what it takes to survive in the community arts.

We are here to stay! Artists - your art will have an effect on our site. I have made fliers from the art from ART-ACT promoting our site and your art locally, asking people to visit the site and to submit their own personal stories of racism. The history of our "Art of the T-shirt" exhibits demonstrate our commitment to community art and the artist.

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

A second iron in the fire is to seek out the support of teachers to help build a curriculum for high school and college classes to use this art to inspire the discussion of racism and issues of diversity.

If you are a teacher and would like to work on this project or know another teacher who would - do not hesitate. E-mail me. Lets get it on! More on this as the year progresses. We know this art is valuable.

So what is our big plan for 2001? Steadily to build our networking by encouraging volunteers to promote our web site. This is one idea we are putting into practice. Want to help - just e-mail me with volunteer in the subject line or visit this link....
http://www.art-teez.org/help_ara.htm

WEB SITE DEVELOPMENTS - FOUNDERS ART ARRIVES
Over the course of the next month or two I will be adding my work to a segment of this site. I invite those who are curious to take a look. Because I wear many hats speedy growth is not promised.