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Grupo Soap del Corazón is organizing Grafica Politica #2, a community-oriented call for art aimed at getting political posters out onto the streets.  Submissions require that you include a photo of the piece out on the streets, and that the posters are multi-run prints, so that they can paste them up when the RNC comes to town.  By organizing this way, they’ve cleverly organized an exhibit, archive, and protest all at once.

Groundswell is organizing artists to submit – please get in touch if you’d like to participate!

1. Make a poster. Anything expressing your viewpoint on the coming U.S. election, the Republican convention, the state of the United States, it’s role in the world, and the state of that world.
2. Create the poster any way you want.
3. Minimum size for the poster is 11”x17”.
4. You must print a minimum run of 8 posters. The posters must be multi-run prints: one-of-a-kind works of art will not be accepted. A minimum of 5 must be placed out in your community, on walls, on telephone poles, in windows, etc.
5. A minimum of 3 of the posters must be sent to Grupo Soap del Corazón and arrive by August 30th, 2008. 1 poster will be in an art exhibit that we create and, later, our archive. 1 poster will be sent to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. The rest will be used to poster the streets of the Twin Cities before, during, and after the Republican convention.
6. To be part of this effort, you must also send us at least one digital image of your poster on walls, telephone poles, etc in YOUR community. Send them to artjones@bitstream.net.
7. Digital of all posters posted out in your community will be put up on our website.
8. There will be an exhibition of ALL the posters, most likely opening in October for the end of the campaign. Right now we are in negotiations with the California Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis. We will announce the show on our myspace site by September 15th, 2008.
9. Send your posters to:
   Grafica Politica #2
   Grupo Soap del Corazon
   c/o Douglas Padilla
   304 2nd Street NE
   Minneapolis, MN 55413
10. Please spread the word. Email around to other artists and encourage them to participate. We especially urge you to encourage artists in countries outside the U.S.A. – we want the world’s voices to be heard here.
11. We will pay special attention to anyone who organizes a group of artists and sends in posters as a group. Additionally, groups will get extra acknowledgment in the exhibition.

Via Just Seeds

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