CALL FOR SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION: Parks for People Draw-a-Thon
Posted October 19, 2008 by dara_g in Calls for Art
http://www.mucketymuck.org/b_1_exhibitions/campaigns/2008_US_ParksForPeople.htm
Due Oct 21 (by email or mail) - see below for full submission information
Union Square Park's historic Pavilion is threatened by plans for a privately run, upscale restaurant. We believe that our precious public resources should stay in the hands of the people and that the pavilion should be committed to public use. We invite artists to participate in imagine public uses for the pavilion by making a black and white 11 x 17 illustration either in advance of or at our Oct 23rd rally at Union Square celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Pavilion's designation as a National Historic Landmark. For more context please see: Union Square, Then and Now
PARTICIPATING COMMISSIONED ARTISTS
Artwork by the following artists are producing commissioned illustrations:
Steve Lambert, Carolyn Ryder Cooley, Chris Rubino, Steve Marcus, Joan Linder
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The general public is invited to submit drawings will be selected by a jury that consists of:
Martha Wilson - Executive Director of Franklin Furnace
Dara Greenwald - artist, activist, and co-curator of Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures from the 1960s to Now currently on view at Exit Art
All drawings produced at the Oct 23rd at the temporary Drawing Station in Union Squares south end from 4-6 pm will be made into hand held signs to be carried at the rally at 6 pm.
Up to 6 drawings will be used in a calendar entitled Parks for People 24/7 that illustrates year-round alternate uses of the parks pavilion. Our goal is to invite citizens to consider alternate year-round uses of the park and let the BID know that the general public will not accept a compromise on their right to public space the public wants PARKS FOR PEOPLE 24/7. This calendar will be published at the end of November. At that time, it will be hand delivered to those corporations, the judge who issued the temporary injunction on the pavilions reconstruction, and elected officials (including Mayor Bloomberg) currently in charge of Union Squares privatization. The calendar will also be sold at a low-cost, the proceeds of which contribute to the ongoing campaign to save Union Square Park.
Selected drawing will also be featured on various groups websites involved as organizers such as Pond: art, activism, and ideas (www.mucketymuck.org), Reverend Billy & The Church of Stopshopping
Submission Information
Participants who prefer to send drawings in advance should send work so that it is received by Oct 21st, 12 pm in one of the following formats:
By email: hello@marisajahn.com File formats: outlined PDF with images embedded, hi resolution JPEG, TIFF, BMP, etc. Digital files should be no more than 4 Mb.By snail mail:
The Immediate Life, Box 1556, New York, NY 10013In person:
from 4-6 pm at the Drawing Station that will be temporarily set up at the South End of Union Square Park
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