Milwaukee Avenue Art Fest
Thanks to Nancy Bechtol for use of her photos (all by the last art-patch) from the Milwaukee Avenue Art Fest. She promises to post a video soon which we will link to here once it is up on Youtube.
Jenny Rotten's art-patch quilts were admired by all who passed by the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art tent.
This was my back-on-the-block weekend after undergoing radiation and chemo treatments for lung cancer.
Artist volunteers from twenty years of Art of the T-shirt exhibits and our screen print workshop came out to help over the weekend.
We showcased the Art Patch Project and volunteers (especially April Van Dam) collected hundreds of e-mail addresses for our newsletter about our legal fights for your First Amendment rights.
Robert Wapahi was present drawing and drawing a crowd.
Charles Lewis helped me screen print fresh art-patches in public. We gave away hundreds of free art-patches as we enlightened the public about our speech rights to sell art in public and the ways Chicago denies us our First Amendment right to sell art on the streets and in our parks.
Jenny Rotten, Andy Finko, Monica Brown, Louie Hutchins, Nancy Bechtol, Gary Kuzminski, Toby Worscheck, Jameelah Johnson, Sharon DeLaCruz and Sulaka Korkis also helped out enormously over these three days. A special thanks to all who did and anyone I forgot.
Jenny Rotten's latest art-patch design summed up one of our major messages to the public. It is statements like this that make the Art Patch Project so interesting.
