above: Banner created in March for use during the school walkout for gun control and the March 24th rallies in Brunswick and Augusta.
The Artists Rapid Response Team! is a project of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. Members of ARRT! are UMVA members and activist artists who work to provide visuals for progressive groups throughout Maine, seeking to add a visual voice to help carry their messages far and wide. The following images are recently completed banners. Click on them to expand images.
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arrtSAGE we refuse to be invisible copy
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arrtmaine prisoner advocacy coalition copy
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arrtMAINE INITIATIVES copy
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arrtcapital area new mainers project copy
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arrt earth day every day copy
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arrt stop the pollution join the solution copy
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arrt mainers want gun control copy
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ARRT never again bigger copy
The Banner below is for Earth Day in Bangor: a “Transportation for All” bus which will be completed by children adding their faces in the windows during the event.
January ARRT! session
Anita gave us a lesson on how to use Tagtools on our IPads and we also made wonderful animated electronic graffiti for LumenARRT! projections for the MLK dinner in Portland.
Special thanks to Anita and Geoff for prepping and hanging about 9 banners for the MLK dinner, plus creating a GIANT animation/projection for the outdoor wall of the Holiday Inn, with LumenARRT!, plus creating electronic graffiti animation/projections inside, just before the dinner.
Thank you Renu, Nancy, Anita, Chris, Suzanna, Justin, Jane, Beth, Julia, Susie, Lee, Doreen, Natasha and Ed
February ARRT! session
Thank you ARRTists Nancy, Chris, Jane, Nora, Deb and Natasha
March ARRT! session
Thank you to ARRTists Nancy, Chris, Anita, Nora, Geoffrey, Suzanna, Beth, Susie, Jean, Natasha and Lee. And thank you to three Americorps volunteers (Alicia, Darcy, and Audrey) from Bangor (Maine Partnership for Environmental Stewardship) and Anna, a student from the Friends’ School, who helped paint.
We hope you’ll join us in April for our next ARRT! session, April 8th. Check out images and information at arrteam.org
LumenARRT!
LumenARRT! is a project of the Artists Rapid Response Team (ARRT!). We work through the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA) to advocate for artists and further the work of progressive non-profits in the state of Maine. Our video projections create a visual voice for these organizations and like electronic graffiti, bring awareness to issues of social, political and environmental justice.
Our most recent projection calls attention to the millions of marchers on 3/24/18 who want common sense gun controls — and the inability of our Maine State Legislature to act.
LumenARRT! Projection on Maine State Capital
LumenARRT! Projection on Maine State Capital
On January 15th in Portland, we joined with the NAACP in celebrating Martin Luther King Day. We also had an interactive projection in the lobby for attendees to write or draw their thoughts on freedom and racial justice.
For more information go to LumenARRT! on the web.