ART-ACT Notes 36

© 11/1/2002 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) ART-ACT III gets its first art.

2) LATEST ACTIONS - Volunteer Program Kickoff

3) The Winner Keeps Winning - Impressions Magazine Calls

4) CONTEST POLICY
Contest Policy for Debate and Input - Winning Entries and Policy.

5) Thank You to the Artists - and apology.

6) ARTISTS - Sell Your Art


********** ART-ACT NOTES **********


1) ART-ACT III Gets First Art

Didre Robinson - Generation Stop Hate
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/dr1.htm

John Trinh - Harmony
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/jt1.htm

Daniel M. Becker - Expect Respect-Accept Respect
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/dmb1.htm

 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).

2) LATEST ACTIONS - Volunteer Recruitment and the Exhibit Without Walls

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

Our site is revised to stress online volunteerism. Volunteers who respond
will surf to college sites and send a form letter to college professors
urging them to use ART-ACT to excite discussion in their classes. We will
also use the ART-ACT Exhibit Without Walls to solicit student volunteers at
local colleges. All artists who participate in our contest on our website
will benefit from the attention these actions create. Artists - you can use
the link above to volunteer to help your own case, as well.

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!


3) The Winner Keeps Winning - Impressions Magazine Calls
Impressions Magazine - the national trade magazine for screen printers in
the United States called to say they were writing a story about us in their
December issue featuring the winning entry from ART-ACT. We are able to give
artists national and (on our website) international exposure. Your art and
our efforts make this possible. Although, this publicity is not guarenteed
until the magazine is published, it is a small example of the potential for
publicity ART-ACT offers your art.
http://www.impressionsmag.com



4) CONTEST POLICY
Presently we ask nothing of the winner of our contest. We would like to have
the right to sell t-shirts with the winning entries printed on them. We give
the artist $2 per t-shirt which is well above the industry standard and we
allow them to sell their design anywhere else themselves (a non-exclusive
license agreement).  We are debating making it a requirement of winning that
we receive a signed contract that allows us to do this. What do you think?

Also, although we presently promise to withdraw the art from our website of
any artist who asks us to at any time, I wonder about the wisdom of allowing
winners to take back our history from us. In other words, what if an artist
won and took our prize and then said we must erase all record of their
participation from our site. Do you feel that this would be fair under any
conditions? If so - what conditions would you grant an artists this right to
alter our history? These are questions we will debate on our Board and
solicit responses from participating artists. Your input is urged.



5) Thank You to the Artists - and apology.

I apologize. I should have written a letter and sent it with a stamp on it
to
thank each artist personally who has contributed to this on-going event.
I am the only volunteer working on this event and have all the duties of
this website and more. We need funding badly but can not sit
around waiting for it. This snail mailing is my next priority as an
unpaid volunteer. I am assebling a database of snail mail addresses
presently. If you have moved - e-mail your new address.

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.



 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.

We are building our organization slowly to be able to sell art on
t-shirts to help fund an inner-city arts agency that hosts art classes
for youth and other community residents. We have dedicated
ourselves to this task without pay for 15 years because we know
it is needed and that government and civic leaders have ignored
our needs. We ask artists to respect this mission and to realize that
our license agreement is "artist friendly" in that is pays an above
industry standard and is not an exclusive contract so the artist is free
to market their designs anywhere else including on their own website
that our site links to. Please sign and send us
your license agreement today.



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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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