{"id":8063,"date":"2020-09-16T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2020-12-28T02:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T02:52:04","slug":"good-trouble-u-decide-exhibit-honors-john-lewis-call-for-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=8063","title":{"rendered":"\u2018GOOD TROUBLE \/ U DECIDE\u2019 EXHIBIT HONORS JOHN LEWIS: Call For Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OPEN CALL FOR<\/a> GOOD TROUBLE \/ U DECIDE EXHIBITION<\/h3>\n

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America’s artists honor the legacy of John Lewis<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Two leading Washington arts non-profits issued a national open call today, challenging the country\u2019s visual artists to create visually powerful, non partisan get-out-the-vote posters for an exhibition to open October 9th (through Election\u00a0 Day) in the Nation\u2019s Capital and online.<\/p>\n

\"\"The exhibit is titled <\/b>GOOD TROUBLE \/ U DECIDE: <\/b><\/span><\/a>America\u2019s artists honor the legacy\u00a0 of John Lewis<\/span>.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re asking America\u2019s artists to create visually\u00a0\u00a0powerful get-out-the-vote posters urging the country\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0voters to vote in what may well be the most important\u00a0\u00a0election of our time,\u201d said Charles Krause, founding\u00a0\u00a0director of Washington\u2019s CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ART (CCPArt<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re Democrats or Republicans,\u201d Krause said. \u201cThis election will be as much a referendum on our system of government as it is a choice between the two candidates. The number of voters who vote by mail or at the polls will demonstrate our collective commitment to the democratic system enshrined in our Constitution that\u2019s provided the framework for evolution and peaceful change in the United States for more than two centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one did more to extend the full measure of citizenship to all Americans than John Lewis,\u201d added Melvin Hardy, co-founder of Millennium Arts Salon<\/span><\/a>, Washington\u2019s leading arts organization dedicated to promoting African and African American visual art, and the artists who create it, in the National Capital region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe honor John Lewis\u2019 legacy, and continue his work, hoping these posters will remind all Americans that the best way to safeguard democracy is to exercise their right to vote. We\u2019ll have only ourselves to blame if our indifference means we lose it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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OUR FUTURE IS IN OUR VOTE by Ted Ellis<\/p><\/div>\n

Artists are asked to provide original art, in any medium they choose, for nine issue-oriented posters highlighting the issues that have been decided, and will be decided, by the presidential and Congressional candidates who win in November. The issues range from gun control and law and order and to the pandemic and climate change.<\/p>\n

Templates for the nine posters and the rules for artists wishing to submit work may be found at www.politicsartus.org\/good-trouble<\/span><\/a>. The deadline for submissions is Saturday, October 3rd. A jury of experts will select the winning entries and the organizers of the exhibit will print the posters (either horizontal or vertical) to be displayed in Washington beginning Friday, Oct. 9th. We venue for the exhibit and list of judges will announced later this week.<\/p>\n

THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ART and Millennium Arts Salon are both 501-(c)-(3) nonprofit corporations registered in the District of Columbia. Media partners are artorofiler.com and Black Art in America.<\/p>\n

Two of the nine templates and prototype posters are below.<\/p>\n

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, <\/b>Please contact: Charles Krause @: <\/b>charles@politicsartus.org<\/b> or text (202-412-2324) OR Mel Hardy @: melvin.hardy@gmail.com<\/b><\/p>\n

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