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On-line Art Exhibit
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| What Chicago born, international art contest/exhibit with a pro-diversity theme is proving to be a model for organizing artists globally via the Internet? ART-ACT, the Anti Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour, collects art with a pro-diversity or anti-racist theme over a two-year period from artists around the world and displays it on its website, art-teez.org. ART-ACT intends to build a mountain of visual evidence in support of diversity. Artists who enter can win a $500 prize for a black & white image. Without more than this to promote the contest - it has succeeded in attracting interest internationally from artists. Artists' works entered are displayed online as long as the artist wishes after the contest ends. Each contest adds fresh art to build a growing body of work increasing the website's impact with each new submission. ART-ACT IV just ended. When one contest ends, another begins. ART-ACT V's deadline is 8/1/08. A team of Chicago community artists judged ART-ACT IV. The results will be posted with the judges' comments at art-teez.org and at the "T-shirt Art Harvest Festival" the weekend of October 13-15 at the American Indian Center of Chicago, 1630 W. Wilson Avenue. Selected designs will appear on t-shirts for sale at the event and will début a growing line of pro-diversity t-shirt art. The "T-shirt Art Harvest Festival," in its 17th year, is produced annually by the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center (UM-CAC) and features hundreds of one-of-a-kind and screen-printed designs on t-shirts by Chicago based artists. With the introduction of its ART-ACT line, UM-CAC's exhibit now represents a growing, global community of artists along side its local base of Chicago artists. UM-CAC is a non-profit community art center staffed by volunteers that is still seeking seed funding to further expand its well-proven programs. |
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