ART-ACT Notes 7 - Newsletter of the Anti-Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour

ART-ACT Notes 7 -- Newsletter of the "Anti-Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour"
© 1999 by the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center - All Rights Reserved

On our Screen Print Workshop for Artists page look at Allen Turner's "Roams the Land" at http://www.art-teez.org/art_swp1.htm

We have a lull in the submissions of art to the ART-ACT.

Therefore, I submit to you the letter we are about to circulate around college sociology and art departments in search of volunteers to promote our contest on the internet and to search for talent. Please feel free to suggest improvements or make comments.

Chris Drew

"Hello

Volunteers - Interns - help our inner-city arts agency build a massive international "Anti-Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour" - ART-ACT - on-line. You can with one hour a week help us inform artists world-wide of this contest and create links to us around the world.

HELP PUT RACISM DOWN!

ART-ACT is produced by the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center. Founded by artists and run by artists in Chicago's most ethnically diverse community, Uptown, we have celebrated the Americas' diversity through our community "Art of the T-shirt" exhibit series in Chicago's public libraries for ten years....as dedicated volunteers. None of us have been paid for this effort!

But we are building a solution to the crisis of funding which causes artists like ourselves to be ignored when we work in the inner-city. For ten years we have worked without pay (see http://www.art-teez.org/hist.htm ). We will - with your help - fight racism on the Internet - build traffic to our website - and sell the artwork from our screen print workshop for artists to fund our art activities for youth at risk in our community. We can do the work of our dreams if you will volunteer for one hour a week to build with many others - a huge promotion against racism on-line. Imagine the effect art collected can have on t-shirts worn around the world!

You will gain experience in promotion on-line and demonstrate to the world how art can help to organize for social good on the Internet. Prove your power! Change your planet!

Review ART-ACT details at http://www.art-teez.org/x_racist.htm

See the initial art submitted at http://www.art-teez.org/ara_art2.htm

See the art from our screen print workshop at http://www.art-teez.org/art_swp1.htm

What does a volunteer do? You will surf to links on lists provided you by e-mail and collect from the sites visited - e-mail addresses, site URLs, and Link pages. At the sites not already listed on our Links page you will personalize our Link-To-Us Letter and e-mail it to the site contact. The results you will e-mail back to us so we can add them to our links page. Some volunteers will do the same for College websites to boost our search for volunteers and artists. Our goal is 100 plus volunteers promoting ART-ACT on-line. This is possible with your help.

Visit http://www.art-teez.org/help_ara.htm to volunteer or send a short e-mail to umcac@art-teez.org letting us know you will help build proof the people rule on-line and show the world what the world's artists think about racism. One at a time we grow.

Thanks for reading this far. Please forward this letter to someone at your art or sociology department, to an artist, or to anyone you imagine would be interested in this contest."

Chris Drew <mailto: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