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Vosi Sergant
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Sent: ~5, 2009 1:29 PM
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Yas; Sergant; NAbernathy@cns.gov
Subject:
Re: The Might United Update--"' ••••_lirale
Hello, , Y osi, and Nell,
We've been doing a lot of brainstorming about how we can add our skillset to this effort, and here are some of
our thoughts:
I. Volunteering to teach local youth about art/printmaking--possibly organizing a series of artists in different
media/approaches to teach as well. The classes would be free on a first come first serve basis. There is a library
by our house in danger of closing that would be a perfect spot for this kind of teaching. This would maybe work
best with kids who have an art interest, but would basically be a way to continue to expose the children/young
adults within our community to larger ideas via art, healthy expression of those ideas through art-making, and
provide ways to keep them engaged/active in thought & their community and not causing trouble.
We could additionally impart knowledge about buying and selling, packaging and promotion, customer service,
working together, in addition to all of the basic art knowledge + fundamentals. This would be a valuable thing
to learn, because prints are much easier to sell than more expensive art. The classes would be free for as many
kids as could fit into the space + held weekly for month long 'sessions'. We could have a sale/show at the end of
classes to generate sales to buy materials to keep the project roIling.
2. Donating % proceeds from prints we are already making to non-political non-profits. For example, our next
series, 'the Life of Leisure' will have a print of a woodland bike ride, and we have plans to pitch this to"
7 L --we sell the prints, they get 10% or so, and help us promote them. Their organization benefits from
the donation and is able to further their reach as a result.
3. Consulting/Organizing travelling art shows. Lord knows we've done plenty of this! We can help people with
displays, packaging, pricing, selling attitudes, etc. We've never organized a fair, so we don't really know who
to talk to about venues, promotion, or that sort of thing, but we've been around them for a while.
4. Making prints that subtly encourage the progressive agenda. Health care, Employee free choice,
immigration, energy conservation, etc. These are issues that we already care very much about and would be
happy to give more of our time + lend our aesthetic to furthering the reach & understanding of these topics
through print media.
So those are some of the ideas we've been tossing around.
We really enjoy being in on these projects (United We Serve), and contributing, but we're not sure that we are
really an 'outreach' operation just yet.
What we mean is that we don't really have a group of people that we hold influence over, necessarily. We are
constantly working and take what we make directly to people and have a growing audience, but are unsure how
much what we say/do actually sways their motivations. That said, we are a young business ready to try new
things have a desire to lend our hands!