A Call For Creative Action, Arts Voice,Every Voice

A call for Creative Action:

ONE AMERICA, ONE WORLD, A Creative vision of a united, peaceful and equal society.
Arts Voice, Every Voice  
 
“we must never forget, art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth” John F. Kennedy

With all the divisiveness, intolerance, racial injustice and violence in our country and around the world, it has never been more important than now to use the arts as our voice for freedom, social justice, equality and peace. Artists have always spoken the truth, communicated their ideas, raised dialogues and stirred things up for social good and social change.     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   We want to encourage the creative voice in everyone!

Through this project we want to inspire, encourage and empower everyone to express themselves through the arts, expressing their vision of ONE AMERICA, ONE WORLD. Our collective voice will raise dialogues, offer ideas, hopes and possibilities. We are stronger when we create together.                                                                                                   Culture will be the Many Voices uniting us all.  
Let the arts be a bridge across America and around the world.
A Call for CREATIVE Action, become a Citizen artist.

A creative guide: illustrate this theme through various artistic mediums
What does One America, One World mean to you, what does it look like? What should it look like? What doesn’t it look like?
What would be your vision for One America, One World? What are your ideas, hopes and possibilities?
Artistic mediums: drawing, painting, photography, video, poetry, stories, music/song, dance.

Objective one: requesting the submission of visual pieces [need to send to me at lois@theartsdothepublicgood.com via a pdf or jpeg, original piece no bigger than 14 x 20] and poetry by November 15th.
Video, music/song submissions by January 15th.
This project is open to everyone who wants to pARTicipate, we want everyone’s creative voice, including elementary school students
We will promote through social media, create an online gallery, we want to raise a dialogue through the arts and create a community of involved active pARTicipants of all ages and all cultures.
We will be creating posters; limited edition prints and other marketing promotions.
Long term goal is to create a portable mural across America, [possibly internationally]celebrating our creative freedom.



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