Arts For Global Development Inc Team

Arts For Global Development, Inc.

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TREASUREPOSTCARDS'08 | emphasizing the importance of arts in empowering women, creating awareness on vital issues related to girls and women, & celebrating their achievements

We invite FEMALE artists from across the globe to celebrate the 2008 International Women's Day* with us by SHARING their visual voices/expressions/perspectives, and DONATING their postcard-sized artwork.

The postcard sized artworks may highlight issues like:

Women's rights
Local and global collaboration to end poverty
Addressing violence against women
HIV/AIDS and illiteracy
Education/skill development and economic empowerment
Success Stories/Achievements
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
or any other issue you think would fall within the framework of TreasurePostcards'08.

The artwork medium could be photography, painting, mixed-media, collages of various materials, illustrations combined with poetry, anecdotes, caricatures, and others. The postcards (exactly 4 x 6 inch or 14 x 10.5 cm in size) can be designed in portrait/vertical or landscape/horizontal format.

Postcard Artwork Size: The artwork should be 4 x 6 inch or 14 x 10.5 cm (without frame/matting)

Post by Date - Deadline: March 08, 2008 (March 8th is for US post; Participants outside the US please consider the time needed for international mailing. You might want to mail your work 1-2 weeks prior to March 08 so that your work is here on time for the exhibit!).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.

SUBMISSION FOR THIS PHASE OF THE PROJECT HAS ENDED.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBIT!

Please note the following:

I) In your submission please include

a.) Information about yourself/artist:
o Your Name / Last Name:
o Age:
o Country:
o Contact Information (mailing address and email; if you have a website please feel free to share):
o Brief Bio Statement (max 150 words in paragraph format)

b.) Brief Description about the postcard
o Content of the artwork
o Materials used

c.) Submission: (no later than March 08, 2008)

o EMAIL your artwork's digital image in jpeg format with high resolution to tpp@art4development.net. Maximum three (3) postcard-artwork per artist. Don't forget to include the above requested details (copy Items a & b into your email, fill-out the questions), and email it to us at tpp@art4development.net with a subject line of TreasurePostcard (TPP).

AND

o Please also write your name/last name; country of origin, and title of your work behind the postcard artwork and MAIL the original postcard-artwork to:

Arts for Global Development, Inc.
PO Box 5892
Bethesda, MD 20824
USA

o Please do NOT put your artwork in a frame or matting.

II) Donated select works will be exhibited at the 9th Street Gallery in Washington DC and all submitted artworks will be available for sale during an educational event at the end of March. 50% of the sales proceeds of all donated artworks will be given to Calvary Women's Shelter and 50% to Mor Cati (Purple Roof) Foundation.

Calvary Women's Services is a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, USA that provides housing and support services to homeless women. Calvary's mission is two-fold: To provide homeless women with a place to live and basic services and to help educate and empower women for independent living.

Mor Cati (The Purple Roof) Foundation, based in Istanbul, Turkey aims to address issues around domestic violence and help women who have become victims of such cruelty. Through its shelters, helpline services, socio-psychological healing and counseling workshops, press campaigns, local/national awareness and educational programs, Mor Cati has been supporting hundreds of women and children since 1990 who have witnessed abuse and assault. To learn more about the foundation and its programs please click here (website in Turkish).

Further details about the exhibition and educational event will be posted on this webpage. So please come back and check out the details!

III) Arts for Global Development will take all precautions to safeguard donated work; nevertheless is not responsible for the theft of, loss, and/or damage to the submitted work throughout the project. Donated artworks are not returnable, unless the artist comes and picks up the artwork herself after the exhibition. Select donated works will be exhibited individually throughout the exhibition and those NOT selected to be displayed on the gallery walls will be presented in a portfolio format during the fundraising event. However, this exhibition structure depends primarily on the number and quality of submissions. Exhibition curator(s) will decide on the final format of the exhibit upon delivery of all submitted artworks, i.e., all of the submitted work might be exhibited. By participating in this project, as a professional or emerging artist, you are also giving the permission to publish your work in art'ishake and/or any other related Art4Development.Net educative document/publication, website. Please note that this project is conducted on volunteer basis. When you submit/donate your work for the project, it is assumed that you have understood and agreed with the project content, objectives, and terms.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the TreasurePostcards'08 please contact Art4Development.Net at tpp@art4development.net. To learn more about the arts and its relation with women's empowerment, check out the fem'arts section of our website.

*International Women's Day (IWD), March 08, has grown to become a global day of recognition and celebration around the world. For more information on IWD please visit http://www.internationalwomensday.com

Arts for Global Development, Inc. [Art4Development.Net] is an international non-profit voluntary initiative with a purpose of furthering interdisciplinary, multisectoral, cross-cultural and creative approach in social change, and facilitating creative sector and stakeholders of development together empower socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and communities worldwide, particularly children, youth, and women.

9th Street Gallery in the Historic Shaw District of Washington DC aims to create an artistic and intellectual environment in which to showcase local and international artists.

The educational and fundraising events, including the exhibit and upcoming concert is co-organized together with the American-Turkish Association of Washington DC. We'd like to also thank AfricanColours, Dr.Ortman/Girls Gotta Run Foundation, J. Feldman/ActAlive, J. Levy and D.Heimann/Communications Initiative, and Marga Fripp/Empowered Women International for their support in communicating the project among network members.

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