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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. |
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