C Drew - Street Artist Adventures

Thanks for following our e-mails. This time we will organize early and you will be working with a team. We are not going to let the City shake us up. We are going to shake up the City.  Can you help?  Are you able to help give art away on Friday, January 29th? It’s so easy and fun.

The Art Patch Program is connecting with the public and the Critical Mass Ride on Friday, January 29th to give art away as a protest against the peddlers license and the way the City treats its artists’ rights.

Just for example, not only does the City violate your speech rights boldly daring you to do anything about it - when someone is brave enough to speak up like myself - they try to attack using their “justice system” as a club. They are indicting me on a class one felony, 4-15 years in a state prison, one step short of murder in the gravity of the claimed crime, for selling art for a $1 on State Street, trying to test the peddlers license, a misdemeanor, and audio-taping my own arrest in public. We can’t let them scare us out of our speech rights. What’s more, we deserve the right to protect ourselves from police abuse by having the right to audio and video tape our own arrests whenever we are able to.

Our solution is always the same - it is the art. Apply the art! On January 29th we need volunteers to commit to one hour of giving art away in the Loop in a completely legal action. We are going to perform the”Art Patch Project Art Give Away” (APPAGA, pronounced appa-gaaah!)  from 12 noon to 6pm stressing college campus locations and coming together at the Picasso Plaza at 5-5:30 to meet the Critical Mass Event.

Can you commit to one hour on Friday, January 29th to help change Chicago?

Sincerely,
Chris