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My Yard Our Message_
Date 1st July 2008 - 1st August 2008
Tags event, Australia, democracy
Yard signs are as ubiquitous and familiar to the American political landscape as baby-kissing and stump speeches, combining catchy images and pithy campaign slogans to increase visibility for vying candidates and their parties' messages.
In honor of this election season, My Yard Our Message turns this tradition of political ephemera on its ear with a unique national competition: we're putting the message and the creative design for these political yard signs in the hands of artists and then—in true democratic fashion—you, the people, will vote among the entries to determine a selection of fifty winners, whose designs will be made available to order as full-sized political yard-signs.
Beginning May 23, artists and designers were invited to submit yard signs to MyYardOurMessage.com around the theme of what it means to actively participate in a democracy.
Starting July 1, the public has been invited to vote on the artist-created design submissions. The top 50 vote-getting designs will be announced August 1 and, subsequently, made available to order as a full-sized political yard sign for $20 including shipping. Top designs will also be available as free downloads. In addition, the Walker Art Center and mnartists.org will print the winning yard sign creations and place them in neighborhoods throughout the Twin Cities metro area, including those immediately surrounding the site of the Republican National Convention.
My Yard Our Message is a project conceived by Scott Sayre, is produced by the Walker Art Center and mnartists.org in collaboration with The UnConvention.
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