Show the World What Racial Justice Looks Like

Jonathan Adams

Show the World What Racial Justice Looks Like

CALL FOR POSTERS
Submissions are due by midnight, Monday, January 5, 2009

One submission will be selected for reproduction as a poster that will
be provided at no cost to community organizations, foundations, and
other allies. The artwork may also be reproduced on other Akonadi
public education materials, such as a commemorative card. All submis-
sions will be featured on the Akonadi Foundation website. The artist
selected will receive a $1,000 prize that includes $500 for the artist
and $500 as a donation to the Oakland community organization
designated by the artist.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Selection of artwork will be based on: creativity and originality, and
artistic and design quality, and potential to inspire and inform racial
justice movement building.

Selection will be made by
*Quinn Delaney, Akonadi Foundation founder and Board Chair
*Juan Fuentes, artist/former director of Mision Grafica
*Mateo Nube, Director, Movement Generation
*Mervyn Mercano, Training Director, Center for Media Justice

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Poster submissions must focus on racial justice movement building in
Oakland or the Bay Area. Submissions must include a visual image
accompanied by words conveying the theme. All artwork must be
original. Artists must have permission to use any copyrighted images
displayed in the artwork. The artist’s name should not appear on the
artwork for the purposes of judging. The final dimensions of the poster
will be 11 x 17 (please keep this in mind as you execute your design).
Artwork must be submitted as a jpeg attachments, high resolution (300
dpi), to info@akonadi.org or as hard copy photo ready art.

Artists must include a completed submission form. Download here.

Hardcopy art can be submitted to the foundation at:
Akonadi Foundation
ATTN: RACIAL JUSTICE POSTER PROJECT
436 14th Street, Suite 1417
Oakland, CA 94612

Akonadi Poster Project Official Rules

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