CONTENTS
1) First Open-Air-Flyer-Art Exhibition Series Rant
 
 
 
********** FLYER ART NOTES **********
 
Hello Artists,

This is the first of a weekly newsletter that will report to you what I am 
doing each week to promote the work of artists who have joined the 
effort to build a "Grass Roots Gallery of Community Chests for Chicago's 
Artists" - GRGCCCA - haha! 

Call it what you want but you will have fun doing it.

Our creative claim to this exhibit space - the "Community Chests of Chicago" - comes 
from our needs. We need a forum and a way to survive by our art. The method taught 
at our Screen Print Workshop for Artists is within reach of all serious artists. Now we 
must invent ways to reach the local minds - by organizing around a plan that 
is based on the art process. We are producing a large series of small flyers with many 
artists t-shirt art images to distribute as an open air exhibit. You can enter your art 
in this series by completing our free 4-5 session workshop in screen printing.

The plan is to use these small fliers and our website together to overcome the laws that 
prevent us from selling T-shirts on the streets of Chicago where ever a large crowd 
is gathered (the best sales opportunities). We will have many small fliers - each 
with a different t-shirt art image by artists from our Workshop and our ART-ACT contest. 
We already have several hundred to choose from. Yours - if you want to help - can be 
added to these. Our claim, backed up by 15 years of doing t-shirt art exhibits, is that 
these fliers constitute an open-air art exhibit and when ever we pass them out it is an 
arts event. No longer are we just flyering the public. We are distributing an art 
exhibit. We are art-ing the public!

This art-ing of the public by volunteers will start slowly. By 2006-07, even without 
the help of the media, we can make all Chicago aware of us. If the press catches 
hold of this idea - we could be instant hits. I have already begun. For the last two 
years I have performed the open-air-flyer-art exhibit in the at art fairs and on college
campuses. It works. All I do is say, "Art?" and people take the flier. Because each flier 
has a different image, it stays in people's imagination and enters their conversation 
as they compare their images. It becomes an art-ing.

Every Wednesday morning, I will be in front of Columbia College at 10:00 with fliers 
for any volunteers who wish to help "art" the public. We will pass out flyers downtown 
and stuff alternative newspapers at campuses in the loop.

Columbia College, Roosevelt University, DePaul, the Arts Institute, Harold Washington 
and many more schools exist in walking distance in the loop. As we pass out fliers 
additional ideas will emerge to effectively use our open-air-flyer-art exhibit to 
advertise our groups designs off and on-line. This effort will soon graduate to actions 
targeting weekend art/music festivals.

Slowly-slowly, one flyer art event at a time, we will win our "Gallery of Community 
Chests" for Chicago's many artists. In other words, we will create a market for your 
t-shirt art.

How can you help? Meet me at 10:00 Wednesday at the Wabash door of Columbia College. 
Or, come by our headquarters at the American Indian Center, at 1630 W. Wilson Avenue, 
Wednesday night 7-9pm to help cut flyers and prepare for the next weeks open-air exhibits. 

You can pick-up flyers at our Screen Print Workshop for Artists and conduct your own 
open-air flier art exhibit.



ARTISTS - Sell Your Art
 
 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. 

Our license agreement is "artist friendly" in that is pays an above 
industry standard and is not an exclusive contract. The artist is free 
to market their designs anywhere else including on their own website. 
We want to link your pages on our site to your site. How can you 
participate? Come to our Screen Print Workshop for Artists on Sundays 
from 3-6pm and learn how to print your art. Already know how to screen 
print? Come and show us your work. Your pens can change our world!

Visit our Screen Print Workshop for Artists to find out more.

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