These hip t-shirts, designed by students from the Joseph J Hurley and the McKinley public schools in Boston’s South End, are available in two styles and various sizes. They can be yours for the low price of $20 + shipping and handling. Your $20 goes to the CommuniTee Art Project. In September we intend to cut a large check to the South End’s McKinley and Joseph J. Hurley School art programs so they can buy supplies and materials for their students! Please, buy a T-shirt, represent the South End, and spread the word!
This Thursday, June 5th, at 5:30 CitySquares is having our first Official CommuniTee Art Project Party. As you probably already know, the CommuniTee Art Project (CAP) is about generating funds for public school art programs. We’re about to wrap up the first CAP for the South End and it’s Joseph J Hurley and McKinley Public Schools. The results have been fantastic, with dozens and dozens of students submitting art work and with hundreds of people voting for their favorite designs. We hope to do this again in other communities!
This Thursday at the CommuniTee party we’re unveiling the winning designs on tee shirts, which will also be for sale at the party and thereafter around town. The proceeds of the tee shirt sales will go to those schools and their art programs to help purchase art supplies. Also at the party, which will be emceed by WCVB’s Bianca de la Garza, we’re going to have a silent auction, of which proceeds go to the school art programs as well. There’s actually quite a bit of valuable items going up for auction too!
Due to some fantastic response from the local media and from the local community we’ve decided it’d be best to extend voting. Originally slated to end today, May 15th, voting will be extended through next week, ending on Friday May 23. If you haven’t done so already, please vote today! And be sure to tell your friends and family about the CommuniTee Art Project. Remember, the winning design will be printed on tee shirts that will be sold around town. The proceeds will be sent right back to where the campaign began - the Joseph J. Hurley and the McKinley public schools in the South End of Boston. The funds will be for art supplies and materials! So again, please, get voting.
Furthermore, the venue has been chosen and the date has been set! The CommuniTee Art Project Party will be held on the evening of Thursday, June 5th, starting at 5:30pm. Click here for the PDF version of the invitation.
When: June 5th, 2008 @ 5:30pm Where: Gallery XIV, 37 Thayer Street, in Boston’s South End. Featuring: Cocktails, bites from Red Fez, silent auction!
There is a suggested donation of $20 at the door that will go towards the CommuniTee Art Program and will also get you a CommuniTee shirt!
The evening also features an exclusive premier of world renowned artist Christopher Hauck’s latest collection.
Please RSVP to Caitlin Sullivan by email or by phone at 617-459-4921.
There’s about 24 hours left to vote for your favorite CommuniTee design! If you haven’t voted yet, please do. If you have voted, please tell your friends and family. Please, spread the word! Get voting!
Remember, the winning design gets printed on T shirts and sold throughout Boston, with proceeds going to the CommuniTee Art Program.
And stay tuned, more details coming soon on the big celebration!
The students at the Joseph J Hurley and McKinley schools have been very hard at work, and the final artwork has been selected. You can now vote for your favorite design! There will be posters going up at the end of next week around the South End that show the top 10 designs, and you can find those designs up on CitySquares.com and on the CommuniTee Art Program page. So hop on over there and vote for your favorite designs! The ultimate winner will be announced at our First Annual CommuniTee Ceremony in June, location TBD. Oh, and please be sure to spread the word, get your friends and family to vote! Stay tuned for more information, coming soon!
CitySquares had a heck of a party at Vlora tonight, to officially launch of The First Annual CommuniTee Art Project. For those of you who attended the party, which saw over 200 guests, thank you for your involvement and for your donations! We’ve already raised over $2000 for the McKinley and Hurley schools in the South End. Furthermore, congratulations to Jim on winning the Placido Domingo Raffle, which included two tickets to see Placido Domingo, dinner for two at Vlora in the Back Bay, limousine transportation by MVS Limo, and hotel accommodations courtesy of Courtyard Marriott in South Boston. Pictures from the party can be seen here.
The CommuniTee Art Project is essentially a community project that involves the whole community, but begins and ends with the art programs at the Joseph J. Hurley and the McKinley Elementary Schools in Boston’s South End. Here’s how it works:
Students at the Joseph J. Hurley and McKinley Elementary Schools in the South End are creating designs that best reflect their perspective on the South End - something that captures the essence of the South End, in their own eyes.
Designs will then be put on display at local businesses in the South End as well as on CitySquares.com.
People will be able to vote for their favorite designs on CitySquares.com and see real time voting results.
Once the votes have been tallied, the finalists will be sent to a CommuniTee Committee, basically a group of South End residents, business owners, and others, who will select the winning design.
The winning design will be unveiled at a party in the South End.
The winning design will then be transferred to T Shirts, for sale throughout the South End and on CitySquares.com.
Proceeds from the sale of these T Shirts, as well as from local business sponsorships, will be passed right back to the Joseph J. Hurley and McKinley Elementary School art programs!
If we can be successful with this South End CommuniTee Art Project, we’ll do it again in other communities. So it’s critical that we get as much momentum as we can!
We’re very excited to announce this, and by working with the local media, with local businesses, local residents, students, and everyone else, we can make this a real success. Everyone wins, especially the students - that’s the goal.
We’re also asking businesses to contribute to the project and become an official CommuniTee Sponsor. If you’re a local business and you want to become a sponsor, please contact Caitlin Sullivan at (617) 459-4921 or email her.
Please stay tuned to this blog and to the Official CommuniTee page on CitySquares.com for the latest news. The dates and locations of all events are still being finalized and will be announced soon.
Here’s a video from the party. Sorry about the poor lighting and low resolution.
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