My Poster Published in a Book
October 29, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
My Workers Rights poster has been published in a book, Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change. O.K so I have only two complaints. They used a photograph of my poster and not the high resolution file that I sent them and so the image quality is not good. The other issue is, well if you read the title of the book then you know where I’m coming from…
My poster is in the video at about 1:27 and that makes me happy. Proceeds from the book go to Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.
You can get the Designing Manifest Hope book here at Amazon!
There are many great artists in the book and I am honored to be included among them.
Kseniya Simonova - You are always near
October 25, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
Many of you have already seen this, but a friend, Matt Ivey brought this to my attention and it is truly inspiring.
Kseniya Simonova is an incredible artist who won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
James Donaghy wrote in the Guardian: “If we take it that art’s purpose is to illuminate the world in a new way, provoke a reaction, somehow alter the consciousness of the viewer, then her work is a huge success.”
Win $2500 from Threadless
October 18, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
You could win $2500 from Threadless! Just go there, submit a t-shirt design and if it is picked they print it for you and you get paid. I have designed this shirt called “my guitar” to get a piece of the pie. If you are not a designer then you probably have some slogans that you think deserve to be on a shirt. Just type those in and you could win $500.00. Check it out and vote for my shirt here at Threadless! If it is printed I will send you a shirt.
Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie t-shirt
October 15, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
There have been many requests for the Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie t-shirt and I have finally printed it! I offered free stencils for anyone to print their own shirt and many of you did, but I thought this would be easier for most of you that are already too busy! The shirt is printed with white ink on the front and back of a nice black t-shirt and only costs $12.99. If you are interested in purchasing 10 or more then send me an email and I will give you a wholesale activist discount. If you want a certain organization or group name on the shirt then let me know and I can print the full design on one side and your information on the other for a discount rate.
Now go see what good people are doing about the impact of coal on communities and the environment like my friend Dave Cooper from The Mountaintop Removal Road Show. Also check out Mountain Justice to learn about current events and actions so that you can get involved and help the people of the Appalachian mountains to save our mountains, streams and forestss.
The first person to post a comment that tells me what color the shirt is gets this shirt FREE! This is not a trick question.
Samuel Porter Jones
October 12, 2009 by Jorge Arrieta
Lately I have had the pleasure to work on a documentary about Samuel Porter Jones. Sam Jones was a lawyer, a drunkard and finally a preeminent evagalist. Legend has it that Riverboat captain, Thomas Green Ryman and friends attended a sermon by Sam Jones with the intention of driving him out of town, but upon hearing Sam’s sermon, Ryman decided to build a tabernacle for Sam to hold revival meetings. This place in Nashville, Tennessee was later named the Ryman Auditorium. 
Jeff Wyatt Wilson of Wilson Independent Studios, a friend and great filmmaker, has several important rolls on this project and has kindly gotten me involved. Check out his site to see the trailer of his awesome latest film, Any Day Now and other cool film work.
A couple of weeks ago we shot at a church in Cartersville, Georgia that was built in the mid 1800’s. The photo is in the back of the church by a very old graveyard. Last week I built a replica of an 1850’s style blackboard that turned out well and is in the background of the bottom photograph with Sam Jones as a boy at school. (The boy is actually Jeff’s son, Gideon Wilson)
A random quote from Sam P. Jones:
“The tune of America is pitched to the dollar.”
