RNC DIY!

The votes in The UnConvention’s "My Yard, Our Message" project have been tallied –nearly 1,000 people casting more than 24,000 votes — and the winners are in. While I’m sorry to say the "Dick Cheney Shot a Guy in the Face" yard sign is not among the 50 signs that’ll be produced and distributed in [...]

Creative Time, a New York-based nonprofit that specializes in funding public art, will host a gay and lesbian-themed demonstration at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, the Colorado Independent reports.
A similar event will be held in Denver for the Democratic National Convention.
For the event, artist Sharon Hayes will recruit between 75 and 100 volunteers [...]

Update: Wenzel’s sign has been removed from voting. I emailed Scott Stulen, project director for mnartists.org, about the decision. “We had to remove [it] (and several others) because they violated the non-partisan spirit of the contest,” he wrote. “And actually the real problem is that the St. Paul neighborhoods are refusing to display any blatantly [...]

In the political theater of national nominating conventions, one aspect tends to get left out: the voices of regular citizens. So, good thing The UnConvention, a group of Twin Cities-based arts organizations, is partnering with The UpTake to give people a more direct way to do some political theater of their own.
"I Approve This Message" [...]