Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree Poster – Portion of Profits for Smile Train!
June 29, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
I had the honor of creating the Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree and Crafts Festival Poster this year. It is a limited edition of 58 screen printed posters celebrating music, crafts and independence!
A portion of the profits go back to the Jamboree and to Smile Train, the world’s largest and most effective cleft charity – they help more children than all similar charities combined. If I sell out of these posters I will donate the $250 needed for surgery to give a desperate child not just a new smile, but a new life. So purchase a poster – these are an inexpensive way to help a child in need and get some art too!
The Smithville Jamboree has grown into a major event, drawing hundreds of musicians and crafts people, as well as an estimated excess of 140,000 spectators from around the world. The Festival also celebrates the Independence Holiday and reminds us of the simple pleasures of gathering together and enjoying the sound of live Appalachian music. This small southern town is as friendly as it gets and specially invites YOU to come and experience this unforgettable event…they guarantee your toes will be tappin’ in no time! Check out their great website for more information!
I will be there on the 4th – just listen for the cheers because I will be a cloggin’ hoedown fool. O.K. that’s not true, but I will be there. Oh yea, don’t forget about the poster – it is only $25!
Be Good Do Good
June 22, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
My new political poster, Be Good do Good, was commissioned by Anne Brown of The Arts Company. She asked me to do an American flag piece and said with a smirk, “But do a positive one.” So this is what I came up with – a limited edition of only 7 screen printed posters of an American flag made in the shape of an eagle with the text, “Be Good Do Good.”
For the philosophical among you – Of course I understand that what is considered good for some is sometimes not good for others. Fortunately, this poster assumes some basic truths or common sense.
Robert M. Pirsig wrote,
“And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good—
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”
On Thursday, July 2nd come by the Arts Company during Art After Hours between 5:00 – 8:00 pm. I will be there and so will the artwork of Brother Mel, Myles Maillie, Norris Hall, and Bob McGill.
Deadline: Post-it Stop Motion Animation
June 17, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
Watch this wonderful stop-motion animation from Bang-yao Liu for his senior project at SCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Life Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff
June 10, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.
Tiananmen Square 1989 Massacre
June 4, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
Today is the 20th anniversary of man against the machine. Free human spirit instead of government control. Reason and peace rather than ignorance and violence. Unfortunately, all that remains of most of that revolutionary spirit is shrouded by government domination and the desire for more and more products for sale and consumption.
These days most Chinese students have never even heard of what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Do a search in Google at google.cn and you will find no results relating to the massacre – thanks Google for your censorship – money is more important than human rights and the truth for Google. One thing is certain, the government is doing an excellent job of covering up the events while rewriting history and most people are too captivated by bread and circuses.
The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests says much about the current affairs of China, but one might also want to relect upon what it reveals regarding ones own government and the scarcity of the revolitionary spirit in our own people.
