Portland peeps: It’ll be worth your while to read through this whole post, trust me.

I meant to post Lisa Anne Auerbach‘s work ages ago, I just spaced it completely, which is too bad… Lisa is an artist whose medium is knitting. And her messages are overtly political. Which is a good thing, because the juxitoposition of her almost girly knitwear with in-your-face political messages really works. She did a number of Obama-related pieces in the run up to the election, and participated in the Manifest Hope show in Denver during the Democratic National Convention.

Portlanders have the opportunity to hear Lisa talk about her work tomorrow, Thursday, December 4, at noon at an event at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in the Pearl District. This is a free event, and is open to the public. Here’s a link to the news release from PNCA and you can download the event flyer here.

We’ll see you there!

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Thanks for these, Susan…

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Here are some preview shots of some of the test prints for our Screen Printing for Change Fundraising Party today…

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Ever wanted to try screen printing? Or see how a Print Gocco Machine works? Come hang with the team from the Obama Craft Project, print your own Obama T-shirt using screens we’ve created and make your own election souvenir postcard. This is a fun way to try out a new craft while raising money for the Obama campaign and a chance to make new friends!

WHO: The Obama Craft Project
WHAT: Screen Printing for Change
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2:00-5:00 p.m
WHERE: The OCP Headquarters–our house–in NE Portland, Ore. (We’ll send you the address when you RSVP)
WHY: To have fun, build community and raise money for the Obama campaign!

To participate:

1.) We ask for a suggested donation of $10 to the Obama-Biden Campaign via the Obama Craft Project fundraising page. Please comment in the notes field that this contribution is for the screen printing party. (We will also have donation forms available at the event.) Please use the link to the Obama Craft Project Fundraising page, so that the Obama Craft Project can get credit for the fundraising, rather than the link that follows your event registration on my.barackobama.com!

2) BYOT (Bring Your Own T-shirt); You can use an old shirt, and light or bright colors are better. You can also make a commemorative poster using heavy paper or print on a piece of wood or vinyl and make a unique yard sign! Get creative! Almost anything can be screen printed, if it can lay flat: bags, sun shades, most clothes, wood, paper. Bring whatever you want, and we’ll help you screen print it!

3.) Please consider bringing a T-shirt to donate to our effort to send Obama T-shirts to volunteers in Chillicothe, Ohio. This is our way to show support for the hard work they’re doing in that very important part of a very critical swing state. Inexpensive T-shirts can be purchased just about anywhere: Target, Kohls, Fred Meyer. If you don’t have time to pick one up, we’ll gladly accept donations to help purchase T-shirts to send to Chillocothe.

I you’d like to participate, but are tapped out donation-wise (which we totally understand, given the dire economic situation), we’d love to have you come! Email us at obamacraftproject@gmail.com and we’ll figure something out.

NOTE: Please use the link to the Obama Craft Project Fundraising page, so that the Obama Craft Project can get credit for the fundraising, rather than the link that follows your event registration! Here’s the link.

A similar event was held in Austin earlier this month; check out the photos here.

Register for this event at the Barack Obama web site.

Josh and I will be manning the screen printing table, while the fabulous Susan Beal will manning the Gocco printer (which is so incredibly cool, if you haven’t seen one in action before!).

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North Carolina resident kristabird (those are her Chucks poking out from under the blanket in this photo) sewed this cozy fleece Barack Obama blanket (the back is blue, which is not shown in this photo) to donate as a raffle prize at Baracktoberfest in Carrboro, North Carolina this coming Sunday, October 19. Sounds like a fun event, too!

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