Check out my painting for the 14th Annual Art Auction benefiting Kids on the Block for this Thursday night. Chair-ish is an auction of chairs and other types of artwork with a chair theme.
Kids on the Block is a youth development, non profit organization that travels throughout Middle Tennessee educating children and adults on tough issues using the ancient form of Bunraku puppetry.
These puppets are cool and the wonderful people that handle them do absolutely incredible work! I encourage anyone who is available to go or to check out the Stars Nashville website for more information. Kids On The Block serves about 40,000 children in Middle Tennessee and helps kids cope with bullying, child abuse, prejudice, divorce and other issues.
March 25 6:30 p.m. at the Loveless Barn in Bellevue
Note: I actually painted this as a study about 12 years ago with my dad while in Washington, DC. I remember almost missing my plane and that insane great taxi driver that made it to the airport in 10 seconds flat…
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My dad, Jorge Yances, is having an art exhibition at the Parthenon titled, “Cartagena Memories.” The work recently debuted at The Museo Historico de Cartagena in Colombia, South America.
The artwork takes us on a journey into a surreal world where past, present and future meander through a place where realism and imagination are one in subject and technique. The show opens Friday March 5 from 6-8pm and continues to June 26. You can go to his website yances.com for more images. There will be many people there Friday including myself so come out and enjoy!
The Parthenon
Centennial Park, Nashville, TN 37201
615-862-8431
www.parthenon.org
Tuesday – Saturday 9-4:30
Hello everyone! I am in the 2nd Annual “Art from Anywhere”, alumni art exhibit at Belmont University during Homecoming 2010, February 21 – Saturday, February 27. There is a good mix of artist and artwork for all personalities so come and check out the show.
Artists Include: Margaret Elliott, Tom Matthews, Jorge Arrieta and Ron York
Belmont University, Leu Center for the Visual Arts, Lobby & Gallery 121
Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 6 pm
Saturday 10 am – 6 pm
I have decided that since art galleries take around 50% of the sale price of my work that I am going to sell it to you without their markup! So listed here are three framed limited edition archival prints in a great black wood frame.
Up first is The Media - represented in this American flag with words like smut, scandal, storms, spend, and scare that form the American red and white stripes. All of these “news stories” are what keep you distracted from what is really important. (Why did I not add “Sports” to this? I must have been on the edge of my seat watching the exciting game or glued to those important commercials or was I listening to the life changing play by play? Who knows ……. ………. ………. ………wait ……… ……… ….. just a ……. ..…. ..…….. …. I’m listening ….... .……….. ……. hold on …..… ……… one minute ………. ..……… almost ………. ..………. ..… ok sorry…… …….. .…… what was I saying? My apologies, I was changing the channel.)
Up next is Smoking is Good for You! Or is it Cigarettes are Good for You! Well either way that is what the doctors used to tell us – and I freakin’ believed them man! Thankfully I have decided to think for myself now.
Finally we have Pink! What does this flag represent? You tell me and if I enjoy your answer I will give it to you for FREE and you can Give it to your dog for Valentine’s Day!
Just click on the image to buy that particular one or you can also get them without the frame for only $11 here. I do not have very many left and will not make anymore so get them while you can…
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You are late for work – Hurry you must please your Boss! Your cubicle is waiting for you.
Political game designers Molleindustria have developed another interesting game, but this time the goal is to free your self from the monotony of everyday work.
Molleindustria is an italian team of artists, designers and programmers that aims at starting a serious discussion about social and political implications of video games. In the creator Paolo Pedercini’s own words, Every Day The Same Dream is “a short existential game about alienation and refusal of labor.”
To complete the game you must change you current behavior and become numb to the harsh realities of corporate capitalism and then you will set yourself free.
The creative game was made in less than a week as an entry for the Experimental Gameplay Project. You can play it online, or download it for either Mac or PC.
Yes you can beat this game! Free yourself – it is not too late…
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Fordham University in New York City is currently exhibiting the art show “Visual Voices: Freedom of Expression.” I have been fortunate enough to be invited by James A. Brace to participate with a few of my posters – Freedom not Economic Tyranny, We come in Peace and Occupation is not a Crime. There are some really freakin incredible artists that are in the show – some are legendary:
Jorge Arrieta · Ben Heine · Banksy · Cindy Chen · Sue Coe
Chaz Maviyane-Davies · Forkscrew Graphics · Guerilla Girls
Christopher Kosek · Sharon Levy · Luba Lukova · Vasilis Magoulas
Jess Sand · Scott Spector · Christy Rupp · Chris Warner
Exhibit Info:
December 10th, 2009 through February 5th, 2010
Center Gallery Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street | New York, NY 10023
For information call: 212.636.6303
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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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