Rise Up! Postcard Call

Post Card Art Sought -- Open to All!

Mail your 4 inch by 6 inch (app. 10X15 cm.) original artwork to:

ARTSomerville
P.O. Box 43600
Somerville, MA 02143

Deadline: February 15, 2005

Your art will be given away at the Nave Gallery as a "lagniappe" (see definition below) in return for a $5 donation in support of the New Orleans Arts Council's Artists Relief Fund. Feel free to write a message of support to displaced New Orleans artists on the backside of the postcard. A selection of the cards (both art & text) will be posted online.

This mail art project is in support of the upcoming February exhibit:

Rise Up!
Art, Sounds and Shrines:
A benefit for the New Orleans Arts Council
February 2 to March 2, 2006
The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA USA
This exhibit is coordinated by ARTSomerville and the Somerville Arts Council.
More info will be posted at: www.ARTSomerville.org

Questions? Email: info@artsomerville.org

lagniappe \LAN-yap\ noun
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at
the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or
obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

Please help distribute this call!
Rachel Strutt
Program Manager
Somerville Arts Council
617/625-6600, x2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org