An opportunity to have your work be part of the visual identity for the 2022 Allied Media Conference
About the Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference emerges out of 20 years of relationship-building across issues, identities, organizing practices and creative mediums. Since 1999, the AMC has been an incubator of imaginative media strategies in an effort to “ignite” social justice organizing and progressive ideas.
About the collaboration
For AMC 2022, we are seeking submissions from Detroit-based illustrators, visual artists, and visual art collectives with existing 2D bodies of work that will be reproduced in whole or in part on conference materials such as:
- Printed and digital promotions (posters, social media posts, videos, website)
- Signage
- Conference collateral (badges, lanyards, program book)
- Merchandise
One body of work will be selected for AMC2022.
We will work in consultation with the artist(s) to create materials that showcase the work in its best light while also effectively promoting and communicating about the AMC. The works will be used only for AMC2022, and for archival purposes after the conference.
We are looking for work that is vibrant, colorful, and captures the sense of creation, connection, and transformation that is at the core of the AMC experience. The work will be selected based on its visual and emotional resonance with the AMC, as well as how well it will lend itself to design applications.
Long-time Detroit residents, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, disabled artists, elders, youth, LGBTQI2S, and emerging artists are all at the heart of the AMC community, and are especially encouraged to apply.
See how artwork and illustration has been used for previous AMCs:
Compensation:
$2000 and free registration to AMC2022
Eligibility:
You must be a Detroit resident
Deadline:
Mar. 26, 2021 at 11:59pm
Timeline
| February 2021 | Release call for submissions |
| Mar 26 11:59pm | Deadline to submit |
| April 9, 2021 | Artist selected |
| May 2021 | Initial meeting with artist, high resolution scans provided |
| June-July 2021 | Design work begins |
| August 2021 | Check-in with artist, review of comps of various deliverables |
| September 2021 | Adjustments based on artist feedback |
| October 2021 | Design launches with call for TPSNGs |
| Spring 2022 | Check-in with artist |
| Summer 2022 | AMC |
Application details
Applications must include:
- A PDF of, or a link to, the body of work you would like to submit for consideration. You may submit as many bodies of work as you’d like.
- Artist statements for each body of work submitted
- A letter describing:
- How you see this body of work connecting with the AMC, and with media-based organizing
- Your personal connection to Detroit
- How your work connects with Detroit
Submit to amc@alliedmedia.org