CONTENTS

1) Press Release
 
 
********** FLYER ART NOTES **********
 
Artists, 
We are publicizing our activities big-time (see press release below). I will be at 
the Community Media Workshop's conference for non-profit professionals on Wednesday 
and Thrusday. This is a big opportunity to meet the media, locally. Our story is 
told below. Thos who help us out and are available often find themselves interviewed 
by the media. All who come through our Screen Print Workshop for Artists are invited 
to showcase their art on our cable TV program that is coming in July-September. 
Please ask me about this.
c drew
 
PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS
The Release on our letterhead is attached. Distribute to all you know in the 
media and beyond. 
 

 
June 1, 2005
For Immediate Release

"Flyers Give T-shirt Art Wings Online"


Contact: Chris Drew (day) 773/561-7676(Evening) 773/973-1863 e-mail umcac@art-teez.org

Pocket-size flyers to promote an art event are not new. Small flyers - each with 
one of forty-four different images by a mix of Chicago and international artists 
passed out as a "T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit" - now that is different. The promotion 
for the exhibit is a public exhibit telling of a larger, online exhibit!

It is also a promotion for art-teez.org, the website of the Uptown Multi-Cultural 
Art Center (UM-CAC). 

UM-CAC is on the cutting-edge - demonstrating how an arts organization can combine 
its offline local art activities with international online art activities to make 
a positive difference in our world. 

New City recently acknowledged UM-CAC to be the "Grand Daddy" of the "Art of the 
T-shirt" exhibits in Chicago. Interest is on the upswing in T-shirt Art again. 
UM-CAC was a leader the last time the pendulum swung toward t-shirt art. When 
the Museum of Contemporary Art used to hold an annual t-shirt art exhibit. 
UM-CAC, without funding, competed successfully in the number of artists and 
t-shirts shown with that giant institution. But UM-CAC placed exhibits in 
community settings and, unlike MCA, accepted all submissions without a jury 
excluding artists. MCA ended their annual exhibit in the early 1990's when the 
pendulum began its backward slide leaving UM-CAC alone to promote art on the 
intimate community forum that the t-shirt offers artists in our society.

The "T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit" has evolved from attempts in the early 
1990's to promote the many artists exhibiting in UM-CAC's "Art of the 
T-shirt" exhibit series each summer in north-side public libraries. When 
re-showing these 1993 library exhibits at the Chicago Cultural Center, UM-CAC 
posted fliers, each with one of 24 different black & white t-shirt designs 
from their Screen Print Workshop for Artists which was only one year old at 
that time. In the mid-1990's Chicago made posting flyers illegal in Chicago. 
This forum is no longer allowed citizens. UM-CAC has found a solution in its 
T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit.

This time around, UM-CAC has increased the number of works of art on flyers. 
Twenty-eight of the present Flyer Art works come from ART-ACT - a pro-diversity, 
theme exhibit that is building a mountain of visual evidence in support of 
diversity with artists from around the world continuously contributing art. 
UM-CAC's free Screen Print Workshop for Artists, now 13 years old, provides 
the other 16 images. Blink and the number of images contributed by both sources 
will rise. Much less than half the possible art works presently available have 
been made into flyers, and more art is coming in from both directions. 

Volunteers are being organized to pass-out the T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit 
at art and music festivals this summer. These humble T-shirt Art Flyers 
all point back to art-teez.org where more art awaits the viewer, combining 
print medium's oldest form with electronic’s latest marvel to make art 
available to the people. On the website you can read about the experiences 
of artists and volunteers presenting the T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit in public 
by subscribing to the T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit News. Is this new? You decide.


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




LETTER FROM THE FIELD
(to be continued next week)


VOLUNTEER FUN

Due to Community Media Workshop Wednesday and Thursday, we will NOT meet 
in the café/gallery just inside Columbia College at 623 Wabash Avenue at 
10:00 every Wednesday except when it is rainy to Flyer Art the public. 

Every Wednesday evening meet at the American Indian Center in our Screen 
Print Workshop to inventory t-shirts and other desperately need tasks 
around the workshop. 

Help build and maintain the Screen Print Workshop every 4th Saturday of 
the month. 

Co-op policy meeting the last 20 minutes for workshop time every Sunday 
we meet




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