Get out the NAAM vote!
I’m Lisa Myers Bulmash, and I approve of these messages — but only until midnight.
I need your help to get me through the last few hours of this week’s Artist Search at the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM). The museum — and one artist — will be featured in an upcoming Amazon Prime series. So the museum’s asked their Facebook and Instagram followers for help in deciding “who will represent Black art in Seattle!”
HOW TO VOTE
Please go to NAAM's Instagram and Facebook accounts:
Vote for my artworks
Ask your friends/ family/ followers to do the same: vote, then ask others to vote.
Each like, share (must include the tag #naamnw), comment, or save on Instagram and Facebook counts as a separate vote
You know the old saying: “Vote early and vote often.” Don’t wait until 11:59pm tonight: vote now, then hit up all your art-loving friends on IG and FB and help me get out the NAAM vote!
Last chance: "You're Not From Around Here, Are You?"
The last days of my museum exhibit are upon us: You're Not From Around Here, Are You? closes in one week!
True, the exhibit closes after April 8th, which is in nine days. But the Northwest African American Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. So if you've got a day job, or you're a student, realistically you might have only this weekend or next weekend left to visit.
One last reason to go: some of these artworks have been sold to art collectors.
Once the show closes, I'm shipping those pieces off to their new homes. So if you'd thought about buying one yourself...
NOW is the time to speak up for the artwork you love. (And yes, I do installment payment plans.) Let me know: contact me here.
Safety zones, in black and white
Can I just tell you how cool it is to do a collaborative piece of art... with people you haven't even met yet? I heart you, mystery chalkboard writers.
Inside the You're Not From Around Here, Are You? exhibit, you literally have permission to write on (part of) the wall. For this art installation, I'd like you to share your personal safe space... and if that doesn't exist around here, I'd like you to share a specific place you don't feel safe.
Loving the results so far... here's a few to check out.
From Patricia A.: "People say so many negative things about my hometown, White Center, but I love our diversity and being unincorporated! Being multiethnic, I feel safe in diverse cities."
Anonymous comment: "I am from Balto., MD. Have lived in Seattle for 20+ years. I do not feel safe anywhere. As a black woman "feeling" safe is a luxury I can't afford. One must always be on her guard."
Anonymous comment: "Born in Yakima moved to Seattle in 1950 in the CD moved back in 2010."
If you can join us on the weekend of December 16th and 17th, you can make your own contribution to this art installation! Please let us know you'll be attending the artist-led tour that day; RSVP on the Facebook Event page. Hope to see your thoughts on the wall soon, in black & white.