Art The Vote Says "Vote!" (Creatively)

Art the Vote is a nonpartisan, arts-driven effort to engage, register and mobilize young voters and the creative community in the political process prior to the November 2008 election. Using contemporary artists' original works on billboards throughout the state of Missouri, from early September to early November 2008, Art the Vote hopes to elevate the importance of registering and voting in the November election. Art the Vote was launched by a committee of artists and arts supporters in January of 2008. It is a Missouri-based unprecedented effort. Using original art, Art the Vote will build awareness through its billboard campaign and take action through voter registration efforts targeting young voters and members of the creative community.


I really like this design by David Stephensen. His statement: "I am 19 years old and just graduated from Sumner High School in St. Louis. I work as an artist's apprentice at Boomerang Press, the social enterprise of St. Louis ArtWorks. We work after school and through the summer doing graphic design and learning other disciplines. During the 2008 spring program, our writing group created poetry about democracy and we illustrated their ideas. They wrote of both the positive and the negatives of living in a free country, and what that means to us as urban teens, many who will be voting for the first time in this fall’s presidential election. I was asked to create an illustration for the cover of the book we published of their work, and this image is a modified version of that cover"