NOLA RISING: 2014

14 June 2014

NoLA Rising - It's Yours, Take It #7

NoLA Rising is making a call for art for It’s Yours, Take It - NEW ORLEANS 7  

https://www.flickr.com/groups/itsyourstakeit/discuss/72157645167020411/

NoLA Rising has a long history of distributing artwork at no cost to the New Orleans area.   For the seventh installment of New Orleans’ It’s Yours, Take it, Rex would yet again like to continue the practice of a holiday art swap.

For the seventh event we are holding in December, artwork will be created and sent in for a toy for art swap to raise toys for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program and similar programs in the New Orleans area. The premise is simple: Someone brings a brand new toy in a box to donate to children and they get to take a piece of art with them. The toys are then donated to programs for their annual holiday distribution.   

In 2012, we had a great presence and there were so many toys that we filled up a truck that the Marines took back to their distribution site.  

This year, the work deadline will be Monday, November 24th, 2014.

UPDATE: Our Artists in Arms at SSOSVA ( The Secret Society of Super Villain Artists) are joining forces with NoLA Rising in support of this year's IYTI. The Secret Society of Super Villain Artists was founded in 1921 by Silent Bill. Everything else remains secret.

Artists planning to contribute, please send Rex your name as you'd like it to appear on the poster and include address if you'd like to receive one when they return from the printer.

If you're local to the New Orleans area, we will be available at Tracey's Bar every Friday of November from 4-7 where artists can drop off artwork and have a tasty beverage. Tracey's is located in the Irish Channel at 2604 Magazine Street. For more information on Tracey's, you can find it here: traceysnola.com/  

For those who have scheduling conflicts with dropping off at Tracey’s, 45 Tchoup, located at 4529 Tchoupitoulas (across from Rouse’s) has offered to also be a receiving site for artwork. They are open at 12 noon until late. For more information on 45 Tchoup, click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/170671802466/

We are currently working to hold the event Sunday, December 7th at GASA GASA at 4920 Freret Street, from 12-6 pm. Finalized plans are pending as of this writing mid-June. Music for the evening will be determined by their booking office. For more information on GASA GASA here: www.gasagasa.com/  

Organizations or businesses that would like to get involved, please let us know how we can work together to make a successful event.  

Anyone interested, pls add your name and any questions you can email me at:  [ nolarising504 @ gmail.com ] .   

The current mailing address is somewhere more reliable than my city address (location, location) and can send to the below address:  

Rex Dingler / IYTI 
39280 Traino Landing Road 
Ponchatoula, LA 70454 
USA  

NoLA Rising is a 501(c)3 and can issue a donation letter to artists who indicate a value to their donated pieces for tax purposes. Please ensure actual value - in writing detailing artist, mailing address, piece name and estimated value.  

Again, huge thanks to everyone who’s helped make this an amazing event every year we've done it. Me and the folks at NoLA Rising appreciate all your hard work and effort and your continued support of the people of New Orleans!  

Thanks again and remember: THE REVOLUTION IS YOU!   

Rex    

For more Information on past events:  

2012: www.flickr.com/photos/nolarisingproject/sets/721576319933...  

News Coverage on previous IYTI in New Orleans www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTpppXjYwpg&feature=related  

For more information on NoLA Rising: www.nolarising.org

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What People Say...

CHRIS ROSE (nola): "It's all got a very Don Quixote feel to it, a lone wolf braying into the wilderness... It's art for art's sake. And for sanity's sake as well." & "NoLA Rising, a ragtag band of insurgent art missionaries who post artwork in public places as far and wide across the region as possible."

ANGELA PATE (nola): "New Orleans still needs so much help, but the people of NOLA are bringing back the bohemian, artistic atmosphere that makes me love it so much. Rex has become almost a cult leader, bringing NOLA back beyond just the infrastructure, but, more importantly, maybe, to it’s heart and soul."

Idiot the Wise a.k.a. INSPIRE (Tel Aviv): "If NOLA rises again, then its from the organized efforts of this guy...a true public art hero..."

A.J. (nola): "One day while traversing the muck of damage, alone in my car, I looked over and suddenly glimpsed a ray of color. A perfectly small square of color that simply stated Joy and then a short block away, another that read simply Hope. My car grinded to a slow halt in the street and I wept those post Katrina tears we've all shed following this time by a smile. Not a tiny grin but, a large and powerful giant size smile. "

Killian Doherty (Ireland): "Much to the disbelief of the destitute citizens of New Orleans, it became wholly apparent that the loss of the public realm was not due to the flooding, but to the governments' re-appropriation of it, when backs were turned.

Within this specter of a military dictatorship imposed to 'control' people' , ReX a local artist read the chasm between people’s physical disenfranchisement from their city and the unbridled appropriation of it by state as intolerable. ReX attempted to stitch this chasm closed with a humanist and practical intervention back into public space. 3,000 street signs were arduously hand- drawn, painted and affixed, to intersections throughout the city. ReX tried to weaved a sense of order back into the neglected fabric of New Orleans; his humanistic treatment gave people hope, allowing them to re orientate themselves again, empowering them to reclaim New Orleans, their home, amidst the neglect and oppression. It became a cultural movement for social justice."

KELLEY (detroit-ish): "This is great work!!!"

SINA (tucson): "Sunshine and art and happiness, the city, the soul will win...look how much more contagious NoLA Rising's efforts have become..."

MAGS (nola native): "Projects like NOLA Rising are only trying to spread a little love and joy via art to a depressed, beat-down population..."

VIRTUAL SHOCK (nola): "...it’s always heartwarming to see one of these signs."

DR. D. LEE (mobile): "...a rare and unique commodity."

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11 November 2014

Starheadboy sends in work for NoLA Rising's - It's Yours, Take It #7 to benefit Marine Corps Toys for Tots

El Bev donates prints for NoLA Rising's It's Yours, Take It - 2014

14 June 2014

NoLA Rising - It's Yours, Take It #7

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