As part of the shenanigans in the right-hand cabinet, we’re doing an ongoing Call for Art. Anyone is welcome to supply art of any kind. Roughly, do you want to make some kind of art to confuse, delight, or alarm people, and have it distributed on your behalf in south Seattle? Then we’re your place.
We plan to print a set of 25 Arts per month, and display them, one per approximate day, in the Art Gallery section of the right-hand cabinet. People will be invited to take Arts that inspire them. The Arts will be printed on postcards, and people are encouraged (but not required, how would we even do that?) to mail them to others. This will create an ever-changing “art gallery” experience for passers-by. (We’ll even put the Arts in a frame!) We may also print additional copies for various purposes.
As with everything LFFC, if this turns out to be a terrible idea we’ll discontinue it, but we’ll do it for at least a few months first to see how it goes.
Here are the details:
- Send your submissions to art@lffc.us.
- Your Art can be a photo, drawing, pithy quote, or anything else. We’re not imposing form (other than how it’s printed for LFFC distribution). Surprise us!
- Art will be printed on a 4x6 postcard. The back will be normal postcard things (a bit of information about LFFC, but more importantly, mailing address boxes and the like).
- Your art will be printed “full-bleed” (to the edge of the postcard); your file should be 6.16" wide, and 4.16" high (or the other way around). To allow for cutting errors, all critical things (like text) should be contained in the “safe zone,” the center 5.84" x 3.84". If you want a template, feel free to use the Moo templates.
- Your art should contain an email address or URL so that people can get in touch with you, within the “safe zone.”
- We have Adobe Illustrator, so you can send us
.aifiles,.pdffiles, or (high-resolution) PNG or JPEG files. - Submissions are due by the 15th of the month for potential inclusion in the next month’s gallery.
- We may hold submissions and use them in subsequent months.
By sending us a submission, you agree to the following:
By submitting a photo, painting, unhinged rant, unlucky plant, or beneficial insect (“Art”) to
art@lffc.us, you grant the LFFC a nonexclusive worldwide, paid-up, zero-royalty, inalienable, ineffable right to print the Art on one or more objects, to distribute the Art (for no cost, or in exchange for free-will donations) in digital or print form, to modify the Art for the purpose of adding identifying marks, and potentially to criticize the Art, along with anything else we can be bothered to do. You can do anything else with your Art that you wish, including sell it or license it to others; just don’t pretend you didn’t give us this license. If you threaten us with a lawsuit we will mock you. If you actually sue us we will mock you more. You know that all memes are stolen, some are just more stolen than others, and you recognize that while birds aren’t real, neither are narwhals.