Calling All Los Angeles Artists!

MANIFESTEQUALITY (www.manifestequality.com) invites you to join an amazing roster of artists from across the nation who are using their voices and talents to amplify and motivate the grass roots movement to fight for full & unrestricted equal rights for all Americans. manifestequality.com/art-contest

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

manifestequality.com/art-contest