Operation Billboard Freedom
On Friday, July 4th, 2003, the members of Your Art Here and friends participated in the Bloomington, Indiana, July 4th Parade with their float, Operation Billboard Freedom. The float carried a double-sided billboard past hundreds of parade-goers on the streets of Bloomington. James Nakagawa’s Border graced one side of the mobile billboard, while Media Conglomerate, a typography piece created by the four founders of Your Art Here, Shana Berger, Alyssa Hill, Owen Mundy, and Nathan Purath, was displayed on the opposite side. Starting at the corner of 10th and Morton streets, the float traveled down College, left on Fourth, and then up Walnut street until the corner of 6th and Walnut streets. At that point, we exited the parade route and stopped in front of our community billboard, Billboard 101, put up our ladders (that were conveniently riding on our float), and hung Media Conglomerate in while the parade continued down the street.

Media Conglomerate is a piece containing over 20 quotes from different authors, musicians, art critics, businessmen, and politicians that inspired us to create Your Art Here and continue to inspire as we work to change and redefine our visual landscape by putting art in public spaces. See more full size images at the Your Art Here site.

Special thanks
Your Art Here would like to thank our friends who helped support this project: Rachel Brewer, Molly Radecki, Colleen Jankovic and John Landis of Sprocket to the Moon, James, Tomoko, and Hikari Nakagawa, Rasma Vitols, Chris and Augie Berger, Mike East, Sally McSpadden, Rick Olsen, and Hank.

Allied Media Conference
Three founders of Your Art Here traveled with Sprocket to the Moon to the Allied Media Conference (AMC) in Bowling Green, Ohio, in June. The AMC drew over 80 different independent media groups, including the Bloomington-based Boxcar Books, (Go Bloomington!), The James Gang (Iowa City), Paper Tiger (NYC), Rad.Art (Michigan), and Adbusters Media Foundation (Vancouver).

We met Alternative Radio founder, David Barsamian, who was the key-note speaker at the conference, went to a bunch of amazing lectures presented by various independent media lovers, and met alot of cool people. The Allied Media Conference is an Annual Event and is sponsored by Clamor Magazine. Check it out next June!

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