Call to printmakers, street artists, comic artists, all print-based visual artists: create unique posters for traveling exhibit

Artist: GHOSTTIDE

Artist: GHOSTTIDE

 

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Calling all Artists: Submit your poster here on or before Dec. 15, 2014.

For the All of Us or None project, graphic artists, printmakers, street artists, comic artists, and other print-based visual artists who are interested in creating unique posters for a traveling exhibit are invited to create and submit.

Submissions should explore alternative approaches, new projects, or manifestos that seek to achieve lasting peace and justice

Check out this poster slide show to get you thinking!

Click here to Submit your poster on or before Dec. 15, 2014. Artists may submit more than one work.

Each submission must include:

*   Digital image of poster of sized 8.5” x 11” or 22” x 28” (300-600 ppi; TIFF or best resolution JPG; maximum 50MB)
*   A 250-word artist’s statement
*   A bio, maximum of 250 words

Jurors will select an initial set of work to be the core of a USA nationally traveling exhibit. AFSC will print and professionally display the chosen work in the traveling exhibit. AFSC will display the chosen work on their website and make it available for free digital download to the public. The exhibit website will identify each poster by artist, title of piece, short description, and your website if you so choose.

By participating in this project, artists are donating their work to AFSC to use in the traveling exhibit, in digital replicas of the work available for download for free, in informational brochures, and on the web. Work will be fully credited to the artists, with contact information included.

Selected artists will receive a $50 honorarium and a print copy of the catalog of the traveling exhibit.

Traveling exhibition — At each location of the tour, events and discussions will be held and teaching artists will work with youth to create more posters for the project.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization devoted to service, development, and peace programs throughout the world. Read more about AFSC.

AFSC is the creator of the internationally acclaimed Eyes Wide Open exhibit, which traveled the USA for years. AFSC’s mural art exhibit Windows and Mirrors, composed of work donated by U.S. and international artists, traveled to 60 cities in the U.S.  AFSC also produces the If I Had a Trillion Dollars youth video festival.

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