TODAY: Live Zoom Drawing Party!

✏️Let's Use Art to Get Out The Vote✏️

Hi Everyone! Happy Sunday.

Today is our LIVE COLLECTIVE ART ACTION on Zoom!! Nearly 500 people have registered for today’s zoom call to draw and help get out the vote. This may be the world’s biggest drawing-focused GOTV action ever. Someone call the Guinness book of world records!!! (Kidding. Sort of.)

If you haven’t signed up, it’s not too late. Just grab some envelopes and art supplies and show up at 10am PT/1pm ET at the zoom link below. We’ll explain everything on the call.

HOW TO JOIN

WHAT: 1 hour drawing party to get out the vote! We’ll be drawing on envelopes and letters to send to swing state residents inspiring them to VOTE. (Drawing on envelopes increases their impact! Backed by actual scientific science.)

WHERE: on ZOOM!

WHEN: 10am PT/1pm ET

HOW: 

1. Register for the ZOOM here and then show up at 10am PT/1pm ET

2. Register for VoteFwd here. After you’ve registered and been approved, they will send you swing state voters names/addresses and letters. Print those out, write a non-partisan note on each, and send them in the envelopes we create together. If you don’t receive the names/letters from VoteFwd in time, that’s okay. You should get them in a day or two, and you can mail your letters then. Any questions? We can answer them in the zoom.

3. Show up with 3 envelopes and ART SUPPLIES

We can’t wait to see you there. PENCILS UP.

❤️✏️❤️

DrawTogether in Action: LOOK AT ALL THE AWESOME ART WE MADE.

This week was amazing. In case you missed it, here are links to the week’s lessons on the intersection of art and activism:

Day 1. Focusing our attention: Deciding on a theme

Day 2. Use Your Words: Text in art and action

Day 3. Exploring Collage as a medium with Sister Corita

Day 4. Face It! The Role of Portraiture in Activist Art

Day 5. Symbols & Subversion

Day 6. Call to Action: Compelling people to DO SOMETHING

Day 7: Doing something Together: Quilts and the Power of Collective Action

You can see the hundreds of drawings made by members of the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table in response to the drawing assignments from the week in the GUT GALLERY.

GUT GALLERY SELECTION

Below is a wee selection form the incredible art share in the GUT chat/gallery. GUT Members, you continue to blow me away with your effort, creativity, care, curiosity, exploration and commitment. Artists, each of you. I bow.

Anne Kenny: Day 2 thumbnail sketches with the phrase that stood out from brainstorming on Day 1

Kelly Broza: This summer, I was a grant recipient through our local arts council, to introduce Draw Together to our community and surrounding area. I cannot express how impactful this has been, not only to others, but bearing witness to myself, the true value of connection. Religion, politics, and social status are set aside, and rather vulnerability, humanity and joy are being shared, even if it’s a brief part of their day.

Heidi Frankenhauser: Here’s Dolly herself, preaching acceptance: “I think everyone should be able to be who they are and love who they love.” I almost always turn to blind contour with portraits because they feel safer. (How can I mess up, or to better, if the drawing is out of view?) maybe someday I’ll have more courage to face my subject and paper simultaneously.

Jenny Noble Anderson: I wrote lots of notes, but kept making my way back to the importance of common ground. We all want safety, love, health, access to resources, and a sense of autonomy/freedom. How quickly we forget this amidst the noise and fracture!

Alice: Days 1 and 2 thinking about disability justice

Anne Kenny We’ve been talking a lot about the election with our kids (ages 5 and 8) and they have a lot of questions, as kids naturally do (Is Trump going to vote for himself? Who do you *think* will win? Are they going to hit each other [during the debate]?)  This symbol is a nod to their questions, with a Spanish question mark to represent the bilingual school community we’re proud to be a part of, many of whom are recent immigrants to the US. It's continuing the phrase of "Our kids are watching". Watching what we do with our planet, their rights, the economy, gun control, wars. There is so much innocence in their questions.

cjobindavis

Sarah My sign art from Day 2, moving fast with my Neocolor crayons. The image on the right is kind of goofy, I was looking for an alternate word to curiosity (wonder), and then thunder rhymes with wonder…does thunder evoke judgement? Maybe. Not sure! Had fun with it either way

Suzanne: Day 5- Tick tock…democracy. Trying to highlight the social media threats of misinformation, mass manipulation, amplification of hate speech, and fake news. Suddenly, the name of this social media platform seems ironic (or prescient)!

Karen Hoyer

Sierra Collier: My Lynda Barry style portrait of VP Harris, aka Bobblehead style 😁\

Katja Schumacher This is the last of several attempts.. On the computer it would be much easier but I love to keep it more as an art project and not too much as a design task. I love to do this, together with you all, it’s like being back in art school (not really art, was a school for communication design). 🙏💗

Patti: Quilt of this week’s projects plus some more scraps on my table. Inspired by Carson Ellis!

And with that, LOVE YOU MY DT / GUT FAMILY!!

So much gratitude for each of you.

See you tomorrow AM!!

xoxo

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