A Quick Shout Out to Next Stop: Democracy’s Incredible Advisory Committee!

Photos from our first Advisory Committee meeting at Pipeline last month…

Have we mentioned our amazing Advisory Committee yet?

To help us best execute our ambitious (to say the least) project, we have established a little army of Philly’s best, brightest, and most civically engaged individuals to advise us along the way!

Today, we’d like to take a quick moment to thank this growing list of incredible people for their time and insights, including: Mo Manklang, Sara McCorriston, Donnell Powell, Patrick Shillenn, Rudy Flesher, Erica Atwood, Sara Ann Kelly PR, Christina Wong, Glen Knapp, Rachel Zimmerman, Dietrich Meyer, Paul Farber, David Guinn, Emma Fried-Cassorla, Neil Bardhan, Skai Blue Media, and My MilkCrate.

We’re so lucky to live in a city with so many fabulously motivated people!

Announcing the 21 Winning Open Application Artists!

SO excited to announce the 21 winning artists from our open applications: Lawren Alice, Joshua Black, Aubree Eisenwinter, Christopher Fernandez, Mike Jackson, Charles Keenan, Emily Kesselman, Amber Lynn, Sarah Lownes, Jessie Mademann, Lily Meier, Dennis Murphy, Ryan Psota, Jaison Smulski, Nicole Sonsini, Alexa Stefanou, Kelsey Stoler, Anthony Torcasio, Lindsey Tweed, Mac Whalen, and Patrick Vinh!

THANK YOU to everyone that applied… We had no idea what to expect when opening our application process, but we were so delightfully surprised to find so many amazing artists wanting to be apart of this project!

Check out the winners’s bios HERE!

 

 

Announcing the “Next Stop: Democracy!” Kickstarter

And before I can even hit ‘publish’ on this post, we’re 20% funded!

We’ve got the right team, we’ve got the initial Knight Foundation support, and we’re getting more and more amazing artists each day (including folks like NoseGo, Ishknits, Gaia, and Isaiah Zagar), but there’s still one thing we need your help with…

To truly do this right and to honor our artists and Philly voters alike, we want to offer our artists locally made, reliable, and durable signs to work on. Signs that are more than signs. Signs that are canvases.

That’s where Darla comes in!

Darla runs the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, and she’s ready to build us sign frames that will be functional and beautiful! The alternative? Cheap, plastic signs that we order off the Internet.

These high-quality wooden signs are more expensive than the mass-produced plastic ones, of course. And that’s where you come in! With your donation, we’re one BIG step closer to creating a new look for Election Day in Philadelphia.

Click HERE to watch our Kickstarter video, and to donate today… THANK YOU!

 

 

 

Geekadelphia: Braille Street Artists Bring Accessibility Talks to Philadelphia Mayoral Election

“Seraphin and Petruse see Next Stop: Democracy! as a means of generating awareness around a city infrastructure sorely in need of modernized accessibility… As of 2015, of the 1687 designated polling places scattered throughout Philadelphia, only 44 have been deemed fully accessible by the Philadelphia Office of City Commissioners.”

So glad two of our artists are helping to bring this very real issue to light by way of our project… Read more at Geekadelphia HERE!

Photos from the Knight Cities Challenge Winners Summit in Detroit

Did you know that Downtown Detroit has an occupancy rate of over 99%? (No vacancies here!)

Did you know that Detroit has a massive urban farming effort going on right now that helps to feed thousands?

Did you know that jobs are coming back to Detroit in the form of tech companies and leather goods makers?

Come check out our photo gallery from the Knight Cities Challenge Winners Summit, exploring Detroit’s incredible rebirth… See all the photo on our Facebook page HERE!