ART-ACT Notes 37

CONTENTS

 
1) Latest ART-ACT Art

2) Screen Print Workshop for Artists

3) Exciting Summary of the Last Ten Months

4) Who Cares?

5) CONTEST POLICY
Contest Policy Decided for Winning Entries. 

6) Exhibit Without Walls - Latest Activity

7) Thank You to the Latest Artists

8) ARTISTS - Sell Your Art

 


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


1) ART-ACT III - Latest Art 



Miljenka Matic - Black and White I 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/mwm1.htm


Crescentia Mello - Friends 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/cm2.htm


Linda R. Bouaban - Harmony 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/lrb1.htm


Crescentia Mello - Diversity
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/cm1.htm


Kelly Redling and Eric Seat - RACISM IS BA-A-A-D!!!!
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/kr2.htm


Kelly Redling - Equality
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/kr1.htm


Darcy Ripley - Different
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/dzr1.htm


Allison Jones - Love Light 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/aj1.htm


Kim Sauer - ALL for ONE 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/kzs1.htm


Christopher Henderson - Against the Odds
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/ch61.htm


Ingrid Rice - Poison 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/ir1.htm


Fan Terraway - The Tunnel
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/fzt1.htm


Kevin Fogelson - African Goods
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/fzt1.htm


Kate Coyne - Embrace Diversity I
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/kzc1.htm


Marķa Santa Cecilia - A Great Greeting 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/msc2.htm


Kate Coyne - Embrace Diversity II 
http://www.art-teez.org/artact3/kzc2.htm
 

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) Screen Print Workshop for Artists
This local event is held at the American Indian Center in Chicago 
at 1630 W. Wilson. Every Sunday from 3-6pm basic screen-printing 
techniques are taught to artists free. This 4-6 session workshop 
gives artists an introduction to photo screen print process with 
the basic materials and equipment for the least amount of money 
showing them how to produce a product they can supplement their 
income with.  Your many pens - are stronger than the swords! 
Thank You!
 


3) Exciting Summary of the Last Eight Months

All the things going on have distracted me from these notes. 
New press on the screen print workshop, Cable TV program 
explaining how to screen print, Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival 
selling t-shirts, NAES Pow-Wow selling t-shirts, June Peace 
Conference with the Exhibit Without Walls, gave out free "No 
Blood for Oil" t-shirts to Peace marchers in the Chicago march 
where 700 people were arrested, Exhibit Without Walls visited 
several other political activist conventions and street protests 
against the war with Iraq and at the Community Media Workshop. 
Website re-design which is always on-going, and our most recent 
press in the Chicago Reader that reaches 133,000 households here 
in Chicago to our 14th annual T-shirt Harvest Festival at the 
American Indian Center in September. 

  

4) Who Cares?

You may look at the gap in newsletters and wonder why we do not 
have it together at ART-ACT. It frequently take me a month to 
update our website. 
 
Why? 

No money - no staff. We are a volunteer program. But there is 
only one person to manage our office and our website and 
participate in programming, as well as hold a part-time job 
to survive. Under those conditions the only honest question 
is not why but how?!

To write WE honestly, I need some of you who can see the value 
in this endeavor to stand up and commit time on-line to make 
this happen BETTER AND BIGGER.

Who can see the possibilities?

Who CARES?

Those who care can respond with an e-mail stating a commitment 
to one hour a week online for this cause.
umcac@art-teez.org
 

5) CONTEST POLICY
 

The new 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?

Policy Question Discussion  . . . .

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 partici-
pation from our site. 

Do you feel that this would be fair under any conditions? If 
so - what conditions would you grant an artist 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.

umcac@art-teez.org
 


6)  THANK YOU TO SUBMITTING ARTISTS

Thanks again for building a response to hatred. More and more 
people willrecognize that this is a valid forum. We are building 
this so you and yourwork can receive attention from an inter-
national audience.
 
Because we are a group of community artists struggling for a 
voice we valueyour expressions. We promise to post your 
expressions as long as youwant us to.
 
We will continue to post your statements and links to your 
other art on theInternet as you inform us. We are here to 
serve artists to the best of our ability.
 
 

 

7) 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.

; >(|)



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