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April 27th, 2010
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| Illegal Art Announces New Project: 60 Days, Fundraising Using Kickstarter With A Matching Donation & The Last Word Continued at Museum at Eldridge Street Our winter hibernation is over and we are proud to announce our first new project of 2010, 60 Days. For a full description, please read below. To fund 60 Days, we have signed up with the online fundraising program, Kickstarter. Please click here to visit the 60 Days Kickstarter page to make a donation of any amount today. An anonymous donor has agreed to match the first $1,000 raised through Kickstarter. Please help today! The most recent installation of The Last Word at the Museum at Eldrigde Street has become a semi-permanent installation at the Museum at Eldridge Street. If you still haven’t participated now is your chance.
We are looking forward to a great spring. Thanks for your support. Keep it public. Illegal Art
info@illegalart.org
www.illegalart.org |
| New Project: 60 Days 
Our latest project, 60 Days, is about to launch. We are planning to distribute journals the weekend of May 1st. If you would like to volunteer to help us get this project off the ground please email us as info@illegalart.org. If you are in the New York City area and would like a journal we will be at the following locations on Saturday, May 1st: 11:00am - 12:00 Noon Northwest corner of Lafayette & Houston
Then we will head north to Union Square. 12:30pm - 1:30pm Southeast corner of Union Square 2:00pm - 3:00pm Madison Square Park at East 23rd Street between 5th Avenue & Madison Avenue We hope to see you on Saturday. |
| Kickstarter & 60 Days We have created a Kickstarter page to raise money for our new project, 60 Days. Our goal is $1,600 and we receive funds through Kickstarter only if we reach our goal. Donations of $25, $50, $100 or $500 are encouraged, but any donation helps. Please click here to visit our Kickstarter page. An anonymous donor has agreed to match the first $1,000 raised through Kickstarter. That means if we reach our goal of $1,600 we have actually raised $2,600! Please help today!
If you prefer to make a tax-deductable donation to the general project fund of Illegal Art through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, please click here.
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| What is the Project “60 Days”? 
In the beginning of May 2010, New York City based public art collective, Illegal Art, will be distributing over 250 blank journals of all different sizes and shapes throughout the city to passersby. Each journal has been stamped with a custom message: This journal is yours for the next 60 days: from today until (date stamp). You may use it as you please to record your life and experiences in whatever means you desire. Your journal can be filled anonymously or signed. At the end of the 60 days, please return the journal to Illegal Art. . If you would like us to send you a self-addressed stamped envelope, you may email us at info@illegalart.org with your name and address and we will do so. Your journal is one of many, and is a part of a collective art project. Each one counts. We appreciate your participation. Illegal Art info@illegalart.org www.illegalart.org P.O. Box no. 44 New York, NY 10002 Journals reflect and document our lives. Entries can range from the mundane to the extraordinary or from the memorable to the painful; the moments that make it into our journals are memorialized and get a second life. This can be a grocery list or a photograph, a poem or a doodle, it is up to the author. We will wait 6 months to receive journals through the mail. They will be displayed in a public space, exhibiting the disparity of experience and methods in which the journals were filled. This project was made possible by generous donations of journals by Chronicle Books in San Francisco and Penguin Group USA in New York City. |
| The Last Word at the Museum at Eldridge Street in Manhattan
Thanks to the generosity of the staff at the Museum at Eldridge Street, The Last Word has been extended into a semi-permanent exhibition. Don’t miss your chance to participate.
The Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge Street (2 blocks south of Grand St. between Canal & Division)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 219 - 0302
www.eldridgestreet.org Hours of Installation: 10am to 5pm Sunday - Thursday Click here for a google map of the location. |
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