5 winners will be selected to show their works at MANIFESTEQUALITY in Los Angeles next to artists such as:
- Barry McGee
- Swoon
- Shepard Fairey
- Tierney Gearon
- Robbie Conal
- Harvey Pekar
- Blackbooks
- Amanda Visell
- Chris Johanson
- Bask
- Tristan Eaton
... and hundreds more.
Your works will be reviewed by:
- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
- Shepard Fairey (Artist)
- Annie Philbin (Dir. Hammer Museum)
- Franklin Sirmans (Curator Contemporary Art, LACMA)
- Ed Ruscha (Artist)
- Lisa Love (Senior WC Editor, Vogue)
- Edgar Arceneaux (Director, Watts House Project)
- Rick Jacobs (Founder, Courage Campaign)
- David Pagel (Art Critic, LA Times)
- Lari Pittman (Artist)
Submit your work on our contest’s six themes: EQUALITY, JUSTICE , RESPECT, UNITY, CIVIL RIGHTS, and LOVE. Artworks on any one, or all of these themes, will be considered for inclusion.
MANIFESTEQUALITY gathers together a diverse array of hundreds of the nation’s most talented visual artists under one roof to celebrate that role and join with our gay (LGBT) friends, family members and co-workers to demand full and equal rights for all Americans. MANIFESTEQUALITY issues an inspiring, visual call-to-action, with hundreds of artists motivating public energy toward true reform on a local, state and national level.
MANIFESTEQUALITY
1341 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028
March 3rd – 7th, 2010