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Billboard Generation V

Posted on March 14, 2007 - 1:53 AM by


Announcing the Winners of Your Art Here’s 5th annual youth art billboard competition, Billboard Generation V, beginning March 1st!

Your Art Here (YAH) is pleased to announce the winning artworks of the fifth annual youth art billboard competition, Billboard Generation V. In celebration of National Youth Art Month, YAH asked kids to make art on the topic “Be the Media: What Would You Say? ” Six artworks made by grade school through high school students will be on display starting March 1st on billboards in Bloomington and Indianapolis.

The Billboard Generation Project gives kids the opportunity to express themselves to the community through visual dialogue. This year’s topic was inspired not only by YAH’s own mission, but also the increasing ubiquity and diversity of media in our daily lives. Today’s media extends beyond the more traditional vehicles of communication such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, etc. to include the Internet, video, electronic mail, blogs, podcasts, etc., all of which have generated an increased volume of media output and intake. Students from Bloomington and Indianapolis were encouraged to consider the affect of mass media on their everyday lives. They used this opportunity to “be the media” and realize the power of their own voice while considering the impact it can have on their community and the public-at-large.

By providing public advertising spaces for youth art we hope to encourage thought on how to enrich our community through visual dialogue. Through this project we want to instill in kids the desire, knowledge, and confidence that will allow them to engage their community and world throughout their lives.

 

Locations of Bloomington Billboards:

  • Don’t Litter by Nicolas, Arlington Heights Elementary School, 4th Street, 100 ft East of Walnut
  • Do Anything to Help Our Community by Alena, Unionville Elementary School, SR 45 West of St Rd 37 / Leonard Springs Road (near Super Walmart)
  • Freedom by Stephanie, Jackson Creek Middle School, SR 37 South of Bus Street (south of Starlight, billboard facing northbound traffic)
  • Untitled by Ryan, Bloomington High School North, 101 E. 6th St. [map]

Locations of Indianapolis Billboards:

  • Is No News Good News? by Jonathan, Broad Ripple High School, 888 Massachusetts Ave.   [map]
  • Celebrity by Dynesha, Broad Ripple High School, 922 Massachusetts Ave.   [map]

Important Dates

  • March 1st: Billboard Generation V Opens!
  • March 8th at 7pm, Reception at the John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington
  • March 9th at 7pm, Your Art Here / Art Hospital Art Auction and Benefit Show at Art Hospital, Bands: Racebannon, Mouthbreather, and more!

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Billboard Generation V is sponsored by Your Art Here and these fine organizations: Art Hospital, Bloomington Area Arts Council, Bloomington Community Arts Commission, Buskirk-Chumley, City of Bloomington, Friends of Art Bookstore, Harrison Center for the Arts, John Waldron Arts Center, The Lodge, Monroe County Community School Corporation and the Monroe County Public Library.

Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Judith G. Levy

Posted on November 30, 2006 - 12:00 AM by


‘We didn’t know, until they told us’ by Judith G. Levy

Your Art Here presents ‘We didn’t know, until they told us’ by artist Judith G. Levy for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted May 2006.

Artwork Statement

In this current body of work, I investigate public/private domains. I am interested in using sign-making making materials and processes to address content that is not usually found in commercial signs, but instead, reflects the complicated, charged nature of our psychological, social and political worlds. The images often float in uncomfortable, ambiguous spaces that mirror our own positions, as we attempt to understand both the internal and external worlds in which we live. I have intentionally refined the imagery in order to create contrast with the complexity of the content. I am also interested in examining the changing nature of public information and private concerns and the choices that individuals and groups make in these arenas. By combining low-tech (drawing with a pencil) with high-tech (computerized sign-making processes), I underscore how our experiences are simultaneously simple and complex.

Artist Bio

Judith G. Levy is a native New Yorker and lived in the Hudson Valley in New York State before moving to the Midwest in1998. She has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, North Dakota, Kentucky, and in Canada.

She earned her undergraduate degree in Drawing and Painting from Hunter College in New York City and a Masters degree in Clinical Social Work from Adelphi University.

Judith lives in Indianapolis and works fulltime as an artist.

Visit: www.JudithGLevy.com

Your Art Wear

Posted on November 16, 2006 - 2:10 AM by


Untitled by Lee Busick
Your Art Wear: Collection One features T-shirts designed by local artists Lee Busick, Stephanie Dotson, and Andrew Maxson.

Proceeds from the sale of Your Art Wear will support the creative efforts of Your Art Here. All T-shirts are handprinted by Ryan Nole at Kangaroo Press and are 100% sweatshop free.

T-shirts are now on sale at the Friends of Art Bookshop for $15.

To see more work by these artists visit their respective websites:

Lee Busick
Stephanie Dotson
Andrew Maxson

Your Art Wear

 

Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Shashana Chittle

Posted on October 7, 2006 - 7:10 PM by


correct me if I’m wrong by Shashana Chittle



Your Art Here presents correct me if I’m wrong by artist Shashana Chittle for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted September 2006.

Artwork Statement

“1=+1” and “correct me if I’m wrong” are two pieces that take personal sentiments that I rarely express and attempt to offer them for others to relate to. 1=+1 is a shy attempt at optimism, while “Correct me if I’m wrong” is a shy attempt at self-confidence. Both of these pieces embody the hope for hope I’ve been struggling for, given the war and the political climate of recent years.

“1=+1” is a way of thinking about non-qualified facts and quantities, since the number one is necessarily positive unless specified otherwise, 1=+1 is a way of abstractly integrating a belief in positivity into one’s daily life. I believe the equation also acts much like a Buddhist koan in the way that is it clear and unclear at once. Each of the two items in the photo, “correct me if I’m wrong” carry contradictory messages. Positioned against a black background, a dead dove is juxtaposed with a heart shaped post-it note that has “correct me if I’m wrong” tentatively written in white-out on it. I feel that the pairing of these conflicting but heartfelt symbols acknowledges the difficulty of following one’s heart and the confusion included in that struggle.

Artist Bio

Shashana Jaffee Chittle was born in San Francisco in 1980. She received her Batchelor of Arts in Art Studio from UC Santa Barbara in 2002, and her Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art at UC San Diego in 2006. She has exhibited in gallery group-shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana and Chicago, as well as in “The Small Painting Show” at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita Kansas, and “Spring Reverb” at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Visit: www.shashanachittle.com

Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Shashana Chittle

Posted on September 3, 2006 - 3:10 AM by


Correct me if I’m wrong by Shashana Chittle

 

Your Art Here presents correct me if I’m wrong by artist Shashana Chittle for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted September 2006.

Artwork Statement

“1=+1” and “correct me if I’m wrong” are two pieces that take personal sentiments that I rarely express and attempt to offer them for others to relate to. 1=+1 is a shy attempt at optimism, while “Correct me if I’m wrong” is a shy attempt at self-confidence. Both of these pieces embody the hope for hope I’ve been struggling for, given the war and the political climate of recent years.

“1=+1” is a way of thinking about non-qualified facts and quantities, since the number one is necessarily positive unless specified otherwise, 1=+1 is a way of abstractly integrating a belief in positivity into one’s daily life. I believe the equation also acts much like a Buddhist koan in the way that is it clear and unclear at once. Each of the two items in the photo, “correct me if I’m wrong” carry contradictory messages. Positioned against a black background, a dead dove is juxtaposed with a heart shaped post-it note that has “correct me if I’m wrong” tentatively written in white-out on it. I feel that the pairing of these conflicting but heartfelt symbols acknowledges the difficulty of following one’s heart and the confusion included in that struggle.

Artist Bio

Shashana Jaffee Chittle was born in San Francisco in 1980. She received her Batchelor of Arts in Art Studio from UC Santa Barbara in 2002, and her Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art at UC San Diego in 2006. She has exhibited in gallery group-shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana and Chicago, as well as in “The Small Painting Show” at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita Kansas, and “Spring Reverb” at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Visit: www.shashanachittle.com