There are only a few more days to create and submit signs for My Yard Our Message. Since the project started in May, we've gotten over 200 submissions, but there is plenty of room for more. It's easy to make a sign, we've got templates and all you have to do is tell us a little bit about it when you submit the design.
Beginning July 1, you'll be able to vote on signs, helping to curate the signs that will eventually be available for purchase and show up in some selected neighborhoods in St. Paul and Minneapolis. We're working on the voting right now, and it'll be super-easy to vote.
The deadline for submitting your designs is June 30th.
Call for submissions for artist-designed political yard signs
Yard signs are as ubiquitous and familiar to the American political landscape as baby-kissing and stump speeches, combining catchy images and pithy campaign slogans to increase visibility for vying candidates and their parties' messages. In honor of this election season, My Yard Our Message turns this tradition of political ephemera on its ear with a unique national competition: we're putting the message and the creative design for these political yard signs in the hands of artists and then--in true democratic fashion--you, the people, will vote among the entries to determine a selection of fifty winners, whose designs will be made available to order as full-sized political yard-signs after August 1.
Now through June 30, artists and designers are invited to submit yard signs to MyYardOurMessage.com around the theme of what it means to actively participate in a democracy. Entry specifications and the submission form are available on MyYardOurMessage.com. The full call for entries is available at http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=192440 or http://www.myyardourmessage.com/
My Yard Our Message is produced by the Walker Art Center (walkerart.org) and mnartists.org in collaboration with The UnConvention (theunconvention.com ). The project was conceived by Scott Sayre.
There are only a few more days to create and submit signs for