UNWELCOME:
RAIN ART ON TRUMP’S PARADE!
As Trump and his merry band of fascists get ready to bring their “Big, Beautiful” Military Parade to DC, we’ll rain on that parade by confronting fear and fascism with creativity and love. We’re going to flood our public spaces with banners, wheat-paste posters, and other art to remind them: they are UNwelcome in DC. We keep us safe! Fund our communities not the war machine.
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Use the easy form on this page to submit your art work digitally!
Please submit by June 3 so we have plenty of time to print!
Also- if it works better for you, WE can take care of printing up your poster designs and getting your art into the streets! There’s a solid crew of folks who love wheatpasting! 😉
Message Ideas:
Counter hate: “Fascists go home” “Hate not welcome here”
Positive future: “Black Lives Matter” “Free DC” “Reproductive Justice” “DC will always be Pro …trans, choice, immigrants, common sense….etc)
Location Specific: “This Hotel supports Fascists” “Protection for Immigrants”
PSAs: “Heads up: Nazis coming”
Resources/safe spaces for residents etc
Exposing white supremacy:
“Racists aren’t patriots”
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Join us to paint banners, make prints, learn how to wheatpaste, and get your hands dirty making all sorts of beautiful art!
Saturday, June 7 from 1pm to 4 pm
Monday, June 9 from 6pm to 9pm
Everybody’s welcome! Register below and we’ll follow up with the location and other details!
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Check out our library of art! Download your favorite designs and print them out!
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Take those prints out into the streets! Wheat paste posters, hang banners, paint the town to let the Trump regime know that they are not welcome!
If you want to learn how to wheatpaste and drop banners, come to one of our Art Builds! Saturday June 7 and Monday June 9
HERE’S THE PLAN
Art Builds!
Join us to paint banners, make prints, learn how to wheatpaste, and get your hands dirty making all sorts of beautiful art!
Saturday, June 7 from 1:30pm to 4 pm
Monday, June 9 from 6pm to 9pm
Everybody’s welcome! Register below and we’ll follow up with the location and other details!
Hit the Streets!
Tools and resources to help you get started
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ARTICLE: We Wheatpasted 10,000 posters around DC this year. Here’s what we learned
Wheatpasting is LEGAL in DC. Here’s the law: https://casetext.com/regulation/district-of-columbia-administrative-code/title-24-public-space-and-safety/chapter-24-1-occupation-and-use-of-public-space/rule-24-108-signs-posters-and-placards
Short How-to video! https://www.facebook.com/108687773798767/videos/147686163310177
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MATERIAL TIPS for BANNERS:
Light weigh MUSLIN, natural fiber, is cheap to purchase $1.50--$3.00/yd for 36” width (esp’ly if ON SALE at Jo-Anns, or purchased in bulk)
Old BED SHEETS, CURTAINS, TABLE CLOTHS also work fine
Old flags and promo banners made of vinyl can be repurposed
Drop cloths can work, but need priming, are heavy and you need to buy them too!
Plastic tarps can be used-- spell out letters with DUCT TAPE, paint will not adhere well
ATTACHMENT TIPS for banners
use GROMMETS-- either purchase a metal grommet kit ( $10-15 at hardware store) or
MAKE yer own reinforced holes-- reinforce with DUCT TAPE, or add sewn reinforcement
or DON”T make holes, instead ADD LOOPS or TIES to the edges/ corners and SEW them into the banner
sew around the edges/ make HEMS to add integrity and strength to banner edges. PAINTING also adds strength, you can just paint around the edges 1-2” to do that even if not painting whole banner.
IF you need to WEIGHT the bottom: don’t use something that will hurt people if it falls; use a bag of sand, bag of water, and stitch a pocket into the bottom of the banner where you can insert that bag of sand, for ex.
Can also use rolled up newspaper in a sewn, taped or stapled pocket.
USE ZipTies, STRING or ROPE, WIRE, DUCT TAPE to fasten banner to railing or fence
SUGGESTIONS for PAINT for banners;
water based, cheapest HOUSE Paint you can get ( LATEX) -- same for base coat/primer if needed.
art acrylic is waterbased, just more expensive
water based for clean up ease, better for environment, better for breathing while painting too!
DC Capital Beltway Banner Drop Locations:
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Basecamp DC https://www.basecampdc.com/
M13 Graphics - Great print shop for wheat past graphics — Particularly oversized 24×36” posters https://www.m13print.com/printing/wheatpaste-poster-printing?g=4
Quality Printers on Kennedy Street NW http://www.qualityprintersdc.com/
The Printer on Florida Ave and 18th (may be for bigger jobs)
The Artwork
More than two dozen artists submitted almost 100 pieces of artwork in response to our call for art work! The gallery download .png files from the gallery below or check out the google folder for all of the art work including alternative versions, page sizes and color schemes!
