A4D and Swing Left Partner for 2020!

For 2020, A4D is participating in THE BIG SEND, and effort led by Swing Left and other organizations to help get out the vote in crucial swing states. We are combining artist talks with virtual letter writing to mobilize the arts community in this all important effort! Scroll down to sign up for specific events!

Sign up here! https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/300594/

Join celebrated Texas artist and designer Cruz and Olivia Ortiz as they team up with Artists 4 Democracy and Swing Left to help get out the vote in this incredibly important election. Cruz and Olivia will share images of their work and discuss how art, design, and activism can all work in tandem to create change. Olivia and Cruz are founders of Burnt Nopal a design firm that focuses on working with nonprofits and companies who value supporting the community and progressive values bringing them clients such as Julian Castro and Absolute Vodka. Cruz's work as an artist has garnered him national and international recognition. His work was recently included in the Smithsonian's permanent collection.

After the talk, we'll dive into a virtual letter writing party, where we'll be writing letters to potential voters in a critical election. This award-winning, proven tactic will help us work on crucial races all over the country!

RSVP here, and we’ll let you know how to join this party online. Invite your friends, too and let them know that Swing Left is pioneering an innovative program, using letters to help volunteers like us turn out Super State voters by mail with our letter-writing affiliate, Vote Forward.

Never written letters before? Hop on to votefwd.org and make an account; download twenty letters; and we’ll show you how to write them at our virtual party!

Think about it: if you help get a voter to the polls in one of our targeted Super States, you can impact key State races necessary to roll back gerrymanders. That’s what Swing Left's Super State Strategy is all about: maximizing the impact of your time and money! Looking forward to seeing you!

Swing Left + A4D Canvass in 2018!

What an amazing event. THANK YOU to all of you who showed up and knocked on OVER 2000 door on Sunday November 4th for Katie Porter in District 45. Thank you to Night Gallery, Blum and Poe, Wilding Cran Gallery, and Ochi Projects for generously sponsoring buses and breakfast for the volunteers. Studies show that the most effective way to get people to the polls is to connect with them in person. In the final days before the midterm elections, Artists for Democracy and Swing Left spurred volunteer activity to do just that -- and we to spoke directly to prospective voters in the places where it mattered most. And we helped to swing a red seat blue!! Many volunteers expressed that they were scared to canvass and were able to do it for the first time because of the event, and that they will now volunteer again going forward! Great news for our Democracy.

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