In this E-mail:
YAH Fest
Collect All Four date change
Happy First Tuesday of November
We now have 2 fresh billboards up in Indy (Flatland continued)
J. Martin Gallery in Indy
Hungry For Art
First Things First

YAH Fest
I would like to begin by thanking everyone who was involved with YAH Fest. The volunteers, the bands, the local businesses, everyone who came; you all helped to make it a lot of fun and a great success. Thank you all. All told the total was an impressive $755. The money raised from YAH Fest will go to fund billboards to display kids art during National Youth Art Month in 2004.

Your Art Here would also like to thank the following persons, organizations and businesses, for their donations and support in YAH Fest: Doyle and Dennis at Pic-A-Chic Carnivals and Catering, The Laughing Planet, SOMA, Moonstones, Greeks Pizzaria, The Runcible Spoon, Sally Gaskill and The Bloomington Area Arts Council (BAAC), The Bloomington Cooking School, Stephen Volan of The Cinemat, CHA-CHA, Pygmalions Art Supply, Hoosier Heights, Kinkos Printing, Sprocket to the Moon, The Free Press, Betsy Stirrat at The SoFA Gallery, Ryan Bruce, Station Manager, WFHB, Jeff Wolin, Professor of Fine Arts IU, Sunrise Box office, the Friends of Art Bookstore, and everyone else.

Of course, the bands and musical performers were great! - The Nicotones, T.V. Mike, Andy Storms, The Hoosier Hotcakes, Nicole Evans, Krypt Kicker 5, Panic Strikes A Chord, and The Secret Girl

The Your Art Here volunteers:
YAH Fest could not have been possible without all of the hard work on the part of our volunteers:
Chris Berger, Shana Berger, Rachel Brewer, Ryan Bruce, Mike East, Michelle Graves, Shelley Harrison, Nick Henning, Alyssa Hill, Colleen Jankovic, Michael Klinge, Jared Landberg, John Landis, Donnie McGinnis, Owen Mundy, Nathan Purath, Ian Sienicki, Rasma Vitols-Mundy, Jim Vyverberg, Jeff Wolin, and Brent Woodall. Thanks to All!!!

Collect All Four date change
Your Art Here has decided to change the final entry due date for the Collect All Four T-shirt contest to correspond with the Adbusters Media Foundation 7th annual Buy Nothing Day. That's right folks, the day after Thanksgiving. This year BND falls on November 28. Check your inbox soon for the official YAH announcement!

Happy First Tuesday of November
If you're reading this on Tuesday then it's time to get your body (and your friend's too) to the polls. Individual voters have the most influence at the local level and incidentally, that's where you feel the results most in the days after elections. Your Art Here is a non-profit organization so won't (can't) tell you who we are voting for (We can say that we believe that billboards are a place for art, not election advertistements), but please, do vote your conscience for your community and yourself.

We now have 2 fresh billboards up in Indy (Flatland continued)
If you didn't get to see the Flatland: Billboards in the Crossroads of America show in the SoFA Gallery then check East Massachusetts Avenue in Indy for the latest installments: Angela Edwards, Iraq, and Linda Adele Goodine, Little Rabbit, Big Cabbage will be on display until Mid-December.

J. Martin Gallery in Indy
The J. Martin Gallery 874 virginia avenue indianapolis (317) 916-2874 is now showing Amber Marks: Documentary photographs of skinhead environment
October 24 - November 29, 2003
(right, Swastika Girl, type C-print, 31"x31")

Hungry For Art
Michael's Uptown Cafe in Bloomington, IN, contacted Your Art Here recently and mentioned that they are interested in showing art in their establishment. Michael's Uptown Cafe is located at 102 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN. 47401.

Amenities include: 1. Reception with free appetizers provided by Michael's Uptown Cafe, 2. No commission taken for sales, and 3. They also take care of press!

First Things First
This concludes this E-mail. If you're still hungry for something to do at work, besides work, check out this piece of literature I discovered while purusing the Adbusters web site for the first time. I have to honestly say that it changed my life. And now, 5 years later, it's still powerful. Until next time -Owen

First Things First
Original version - written by Ken Garland, London, 1964
This version, published in Adbusters magazine (Autumn 1998, pg. 22).

We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, photographers and students who have been brought up in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable means of using our talents. We have been bombarded with publications devoted to this belief, applauding the work of those who have flogged their skill and imagination to sell such things as: Cat food, stomach powders, detergent, hair restorer, striped toothpaste, aftershave lotion, beforeshave lotion, slimming diets, fattening diets, deodorants, fizzy water, cigarettes, roll-ons, pull-ons, and slip-ons. By far the greatest time and effort of those working in the advertising industry are wasted on these trivial purposes, which contribute little or nothing to our national prosperity.

In common with an increasing number of the general public, we have reached a saturation point at which the high pitched stream of consumer selling is no more than sheer noise. We think that there are other things more worth using our skill and experience on. There are signs for streets and buildings, books and periodicals, catalogues, instructional manuals, industrial photography, educational aids, films, television features, scientific and industrial publications and all the other media through which we promote our trade, our education, our culture and our greater awareness of the world.

We do not advocate the abolition of high pressure consumer advertising: this is not feasible. Nor do we want to take any of the fun out of life. But we are proposing a reversal of priorities in favour of the more useful and lasting forms of communication. We hope that our society will tire of gimmick merchants, status salesmen and hiddenpersuaders, and that the prior call on our skills will be for worthwhile purposes. With this in mind, we propose to share our experience and opinions, and to make them available to colleagues, students and others who may be interested.