C Drew - Street Artist Adventures

Free Speech Artists' Movement patch printed by C. Drew

We screen-print in public and pass out limited-edition art patches on 100% cotton for free wherever it is illegal to sell our art in Chicago. Heat set your art-patch with a hot dry iron before washing to prevent fading. We need free open-air art scenes in Chicago. Make Chicago more friendly to artists. Pin this art to your shirt with pride.

Home Coming by Carlos Cortez - patch printed by Jeneba.

We want the people who take our patch-art to pin it to their clothes. If many people start wearing our art, this is about as viral as you can get working with word of mouth - or in this case - word of eye to word of mouth.

Martin screen-prints patches to free Chicago's artists from illegal violations of their speech rights in the Windy City.

Can ya see it - can ya dig-it! From that point on it’s all promotion of the artists and our cause - the Free Speech Artists’ Movement is growing firm roots - grass-roots.

Muse by Diane Green - screen-printed patch by Inez.

We need to continue to build our number of designs and to print them. We must recruit new artists and encourage them to submit designs.

Nami prints a patch design by Lee Groban while Jeneba prints Carlos Cortez images.

The flier continues…At UM-CAC, we teach the basics of screen printing, hands-on, in a free Screen Print Workshop for Artists on most Sundays from 3-6pm located at 1630 W. Wilson. Print your own art.

Patch art by Lee Groban printed by C. Drew.

As we give out the art-patches we will collect names on our petition. We will star the artists who pledge support. Previously we sought 1,000 artists to sue the City of Chicago.

Inez and Jeneba talk art and screen-printing technique. Jeneba got the chance to speak French with Inez and Martin who are new to Chicago from Belgium.

Now we are re-designing our goals to unleash on the public 1,000 art-patch designs by artists in support of free-speech.

H-Bomb by Carlos Cortez printed by Inez.

Our flier continues….We educate artists and the public about Chicago’s speech right violations. Artists - promote your art and rights with your own art-patch. Yes, we are on a hunt for the City’s activist artists.

500 Years of Resistance by Carlos Cortez - patch printed by Jeneba.

We conclude our case on our flier to go with each art-patch….

Visit www.art-teez.org/free-speech.htm to learn more about the Free Speech Artists’ Movement and read c-drew.com/blog to follow street artists as we use art to change our city into a Mecca for artists.

Friday night we will test our package at “Seeds For Change” if all goes well.  If not there somewhere else soon. We are quietly building a big show piece by piece in public.