The Walker Art Center is co-producing a project called My Yard Our Message as part of the UnConvention, a non-partisan collective of citizens (largely artists and arts organizations) who have come together to create a forum in which to promote the democratic and free exchange of ideas on important issues. Our goal is to launch a series of public projects during the Republican National Convention which is being held in Minneapolis the first week of September. For My Yard Our Message, we're inviting artists and designers around the county to submit designs for yard signs that can be ordered by the public. The 50 signs that win the popular vote will be displayed in 3 neighborhoods near the Convention as well as around the city by any participating citizen.
Please pass the information along to anyone you think may be interested in submitting a design, voting in July, or ordering a sign later this summer. Call for submissions for artist-designed political yard signs Yard signs are as ubiquitous and familiar to the American political landscape as baby-kissing and stump speeches, combining catchy images and pithy campaign slogans to increase visibility for vying candidates and their parties' messages. In honor of this election season, My Yard Our Message turns this tradition of political ephemera on its ear with a unique national competition: we're putting the message and the creative design for these political yard signs in the hands of artists and then--in true democratic fashion--you, the people, will vote among the entries to determine a selection of fifty winners, whose designs will be made available to order as full-sized political yard-signs after August 1. Now through June 30, artists and designers are invited to submit yard signs to MyYardOurMessage.com around the theme of what it means to actively participate in a democracy. Entry specifications and the submission form are available on MyYardOurMessage.com. The full call for entries is available at http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=192440 or http://www.myyardourmessage.com/ My Yard Our Message is produced by the Walker Art Center (walkerart.org <http://walkerart.org> ) and mnartists.org <http://mnartists.org> in collaboration with The UnConvention (theunconvention.com <http://theunconvention.com> ). The project was conceived by Scott Sayre. Robin Dowden Director, New Media Initiatives Walker Art Center robin.dowden at walkerart.org | 612.375.7541 walkerart.org ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and may contain privileged, work product, proprietary and/or confidential information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or otherwise believe you have received this message in error, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at mail1 at walkerart.org and delete this transmission from your computer.
