Screenshot of projects already logged into The Rural Arts and Culture Map
Please consider casting your vote
for The Rural Arts and Culture Map proposal within the Rural Digital
Advocacy Grant crowd-source competition. Voting takes about 10 seconds
and requires no login or user information. Today is the final day of voting.
Folks, we coming up on the last day of the crowd-source competition -- and all of us at Art of the Rural would
like to thank the individuals and organizations who have voted to
support this work and who have shared it with their friends and
colleagues. Many thanks also to our collaborators at Appalshop, Feral Arts, and the M12 art collective.
Today
we're asking folks who may not have had a chance yet to vote or share
this project to consider our proposal, and its accompanying video, which
can be reviewed here. For the duration of this voting period, we are opening for public view the Rural Art and Culture Map project -- which will debut in a more developed form in a few weeks.
In correspondence with Mark Lynn Ferguson of The Revivalist, I was asked how I would break down the necessity and the promise of this proposal into the simplest terms. Here's a few points:
In correspondence with Mark Lynn Ferguson of The Revivalist, I was asked how I would break down the necessity and the promise of this proposal into the simplest terms. Here's a few points:
• This map is 100% participatory. Rural people, and their urban advocates, drive this project.
• Art of the Rural
will also collaborate with artists, writers, bloggers, and a host of
organizations to create partnerships and increase the community within
the Map project.
•
PlaceStories is a gorgeous and infinitely resourceful mapping platform.
We can post music, video, interviews, images, discussions, and
documents -- as well as their handy "postcard" storytelling options.
•
PlaceStories enables the Map, and its parts, to be embedded on other
sites. With this, the Map becomes a vehicle for new connections.
•
This is a great resource but, even more so, a place for people to meet
and share ideas, a powerful metaphor for all kinds of campaigns to
increase visibility and support for rural people.
• Plain and simple: contributing to a PlaceStories project is fun and immediately gratifying.
• Plain and simple: contributing to a PlaceStories project is fun and immediately gratifying.
For a more detailed description of the process, please see our previous introduction
to The Rural Arts and Culture Map and the crowd-source campaign. Here's
our introduction to the project; for full image/sound credits please
follow the vimeo link:
