ART-ACT Notes 38

 
CONTENTS
1) ART-ACT III Submissions Complete
2) ART-ACT IV Begins
3) Review of UM-CAC Local Activities
4) Thank You to the Latest Artists
5) ARTISTS - Sell Your Art
 
 
 
********** ART-ACT NOTES **********
 
 
1) ART-ACT III Submissions Complete
 
Art-Act III received its last submission by postal 
mail post dated before 8/1/04 and the last image was 
posted online Friday (8/13/04). I still have to update 
the page with thumbnail graphics from the art but the 
text link page is posted at
 
http://www.art-teez.org/ara_art3_txtw.htm
 
 
Our Board of Directors along with artists from our Screen 
Print Workshop for Artists will be judging this contest 
Sunday, August 29th. It will be a lot of fun with food and 
discussion. This gathering of community artists will come up 
with a winner that will be announced at our T-shirt Art 
Harvest Party opening on Friday, September 17th. The winner 
and the written comments of the judges will be posted earlier 
that day on our website.
 
Artists, you win even if you do not take home the prize. We 
are building toward a very important line of t-shirt designs 
that will find wholesale outlets eventually. To be part of 
this you must have signed and sent to us a license agreement 
found at
 
http://www.art-teez.org/license.htm
Another goal is to develop a curriculum around select images 
and other possibilities are likely to result based on the 
growing attention this on-going exhibit and contest continues 
to receive. If we can not contact you – you can not be included 
in these opportunities. Keep us updated. Always send us links 
to websites that feature your work. We want to continue to post 
your work an encourage you to use it proudly to promote your 
art online.
 
 
2) ART-ACT IV Begins
ART-ACT IV is open for submissions. Do not wait – submit the 
designs that missed this last deadline.
 
 
3) Summary of Local Activities
 
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. 
 
Our cable TV show on Chicago cable Channel 21 airs every Tuesday 
from 6-6:30 through the end of September. 
 
Your many pens - are stronger than the swords! Thank You!
  
 
 
4)  THANK YOU TO SUBMITTING ARTISTS
 
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 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 
to the best of our ability.
  

5) 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