21 March 2009

ARTISTS! NoLA Rising Needs Your Help!

NoLA Rising Needs Your Help

NoLA Rising needs you! NoLA Rising needs your Art!

NoLA Rising is now a non-profit. We rose up from the streets to become an organization of artists whose goal is to encourage people in all neighborhoods of Greater New Orleans to publicly display works of art for the purpose of rebuilding and restoring the human spirit in our city.

NoLA Rising will be announcing a major murals program in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and will expand to other areas of the city.

In order to do all of this, we need to hit the ground running. As in the past, NoLA Rising has survived because artists have heeded the call to realize a goal larger than their own self-interest and given their time, their talent and their artwork in pursuit of our noble ideals.

NoLA Rising is putting up a fundraiser / show at the U.S. Mint in New Orleans and we’re currently calling for artists to donate a piece of artwork. The hope is that we can raise money to cover the costs needed for starting a major murals program. The event will be held the first weekend of Jazzfest (April 24th-26th) and will be well covered by media (mainstream and not so mainstream).

And what do you get besides a warm, fuzzy feeling inside for doing something good? You get my undying love and gratitude. You get to help be part of the NoLA Rising Movement to beautify a city that government forgot. You get recognition for helping us out and you get to be in an awesome show with some pretty bad-ass artists. Most importantly, you help out the people of New Orleans.

If you are interested, please contact me. On behalf of the NoLA Rising team, we really appreciate anything you can do. Deadline for us to receive artwork or photography will be April 17th.

Paint the change you wish to see!

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NoLA Rising

4 comments:

  1. i might want to donate something, e-mail me info to info@artbynemo.com

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  2. send me info on donating...TammyVSculptor@hotmail.com

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  3. Whoops. Offered to send Tammy info but I don't know the mailing info.

    Tammy is another cyber-friend. Her art is amazing. My interview with her is consistently the most viewed post on my blog.

    http://bestcharleyanalive.com/2007/09/11/women-in-art-tammy-vitale/

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  4. Oh, please don't list mailing info publicly. So many awesome artists coming together!

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