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Flier Art Notes is the newsletter of the Screen Print Workshop for Artists. 
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This weekly newsletter reports to you what UM-CAC is 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 have fun doing it.


QUICK NOTES
Boom, the slow sizzle bomb blows its long lazy tail through the sands of time 
and we awake wondering why? The Hothouse invited us to try selling T-shirts 
at their most recent gig and we sold one t-shirt. Ha-ha! That particular crowd 
that night was skeptical and older and we were too new. That spot could be 
developed with a steady effort into a great spot for us but we will need to 
work with the management there, include our dates there on our flyers and 
establish a regular presence. We are doing "missionary sales."  Missionary 
Sales - the science of market calls sales that require you to retrain peoples 
thought patterns - rather than mimic their preconceived notions of what 
is - that they call Missionary Sales. It takes more effort to put a new 
thought in a persons head than to call up a thought that is already there. 
It costs more to change a persons mind. That is why most business men don't 
do it. But we are artists and if we do not undertake to put new thoughts 
out there then we have nothing to say! An artists life most often is a 
person on a mission with all the burdens of proving her/his work - Missionary 
Sales. Know where we're at - know how to react. Write you when I get back 
from the Allied Media Conference with notes from that affair.

Maybe soon I will have a report form our west coast "T-shirt Art Flyer 
Exhibit" coordinator, artist - Kamilenana Cheatem. 

Do we have a volunteer who would like to develop a PDF version of our 
flyers that anyone could download from our website?

PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS

"Art Everywear - Everywhere" (PR 6/12/05) 


LETTER FROM THE FIELD
(to be continued next soon)


VOLUNTEER FUN

This weekend C. Drew, "T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit" coordinator, will be at the Allied 
Media Conference sucking up knowledge and grass-roots contacts to bring back to the 
cause. New Opportunities to participate in the "T-shirt Art Flyer Exhibit" will be 
announced here upon his return. 

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

BACKGROUND

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. 

ARTISTS - Sell Your Art
 
You receive $2.00 per t-shirt sold retail. We will be promoting 
the art we have licensed with increasing intensity in the coming 
months and years. Who is "we". We is any of you(pl.) who help.

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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C. Drew
umcac@art-teez.org
http://www.art-teez.org
We dress Chicago and the Internet in Progressive T-shirt Art