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To unsubscribe from ART-ACT Notes simply reply with "unsubscribe" in the Subject line. ART-ACT Notes 35 © 10/1/2002 by the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center - All Rights Reserved ARTISTS - Due to a computer error on my part I lost the last two months of e-mail and would greatly appreciate it if you could re-send letters you sent me between 7/11/02 and 9/8/02 - especially if they are about ART-ACT business. CONTENTS 1) Thank You to the Artists 2) THE WINNER IS... 3) CONTEST POLICY New Policy Announced - New Contest Category Created. 4) ART-ACT III Announced 5) LATEST ACTIONS - Exhibit Without Walls Continued. 6) ARTISTS - Sell Your Art ********** ART-ACT NOTES ********** 1) THANK YOU TO SUBMITTING ARTISTS A BIG THANKS TO ALL ARTISTS WHO MADE ART-ACT II A SUCCESS! Thanks again for building a response to hatred. More and more people will recognize that this is a valid forum. We are building this so you and your work can receive attention from an international audience. Because we are a group of community artists struggling for a voice, we value your expressions. We promise to post your expressions as long as you want us to. We promise to remove your art work at your request. Please keep us informed of e-mail or street address changes. We will continue to post your statements and links to your other art on the Internet as you inform us. We are here to serve artists. 2) THE WINNER IS.... A panel of eight community artists judged ART-ACT II on Saturday, August 17, 2002. The results are posted at http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/judging02.htm The winner is "Aceppt Diffferences" by Wlodek and Jacek Stopa I have added a page summarizing the points received for each design selected by the judges at http://www.art-teez.org/artact2/judging_tally02a.htm for all that are interested. All of us at the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center wish to thank every artist for submitting your art to our contest. I promise to promote your work as long as you allow us to post it. I also promise to remove the art of any artist who requests that action. We are trying to build a mountain of visual evidence in support of diversity and against racism. Please keep us informed of changes in e-mail, address and phone numbers so we can contact you with any opportunities that might come our way. If your art is line copy we urge you to print out and sign a license agreement so we can offer it as available on T-shirts. 3) CONTEST POLICY In our last issue Monica Moscovich pointed out how muddled our contest policy had become. We invited comments from you. We received none but the issue is very important. To clear everything up and to correct our mistakes the following decisions are being made. We will re-affirm that only - only line copy will be accepted for our grand prize of $500. Both winners of ART-ACT I and II conform to this standard. We will start a second category for all other designs submitted that fit our theme with an initial confirmed prize of $50. I invite all who read this newsletter who would like to help build up our prize offerings for this significant theme contest to help raise prize money. We are a federally established charity - 501(c)(3) - and able to promise contributions will be deductible from a donor's taxes to the full extent of the law. I will develop a page of background information for volunteers that will appear on our site by the time of our next newsletter. E-mail me at umcac@art-teez.org if you want to help. Lastly, I will go over all our posted art and make changes to the wording on the art pages and to our contest rules page so future viewers will get a clear idea of how our contest works. Please give me a week from the mailing of this ART-ACT Notes to complete this project. 4) ART-ACT III ART-ACT III is open for submissions. The deadline for art is 8/1/2004. The prize for LINE ART (black and white - no gray tones) is $500. A new category for any other art submitted on our ART-ACT theme is $50. We encourage everyone to volunteer to help us increase our ART-ACT prizes (see Contest Policy above). 5) LATEST ACTIONS - Exhibit Without Walls The "ART-ACT Exhibit Without Walls" was presented in front of Columbia College, Roosevelt University, DePaul University, Harold Washington College, Truman College and the School of the Chicago Arts Institute during the month of September leading up to our T-shirt Art Harvest Festival - 9/27-29/02. We created conversations at all those events that continued long after we were gone. Your art is at work promoting ART-ACT and our non-profit art activities, as well as promoting yourself. You can help us reach a broader audience on-line by visiting our volunteer page at http://www.art-teez.org/help_ara.htm We intend to continue to build ART-ACT Exhibit Without Walls and to promote your art directly in this manner. All artists who participate in our contest on our website will benefit from the attention these actions create. The art presently in "ART-ACT Exhibit Without Walls" can be seen at http://www.art-teez.org/no_walls1.htm Your many pens - are stronger than the swords! Thank You! 6) ARTISTS - Sell Your Art Go to http://www.art-teez.org/license.htm to printout, fill out and send to us a signed license agreement to market your art on T-shirts. You receive $2.00 per t-shirt sold. We will be promoting the art we have licensed with increasing intensity in the coming months and years. ; >(|) Chris Drew umcac@art-teez.org Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center http://www.art-teez.org We dress Chicago and the Internet in t-shirt art. Come get some! 773/561-7676
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