PHILADELPHIA - The Rosenbach Museum & Library's interactive Abraham Lincoln website, 21stCenturyAbe.org, is highlighting original design, art and writing submitted by website visitors and is seeking new submissions for this unique project, which looks at Lincoln through modern eyes. Visitors still have time to submit their work to the contests through July 31st by visiting 21stCenturyAbe.org/create.
The project celebrates Lincoln's life, work and words through an interactive website featuring creative interpretations of 30 documents from the Rosenbach's collection of rare and significant Lincoln materials, such as speeches, letters and notes.
Each month, the curators of 21st-Century Abe choose winners from submitted work and award prizes in Poster Design, Punditry and Original Media, from which they will choose grand prize winners. Submissions have come from artists in PA, NY, NJ, MT, AZ, OR, IL, WI, NC, IA, and DC. All monthly winners will have their work displayed online and in the Rosenbach's exhibition Finding Lincoln, which just opened on May 27th and runs through August 30th.
Additionally, monthly winners receive custom, limited edition 21st-Century Abe hats created by the hat company Quintin. View photos of the hat online here.
Kristine Borscz of Chicago, IL submitted the Grand Prize-winning 21st-Century Abe poster design which can be viewed here. Her work, Abe of the 21st-Century, is now on display at the Rosenbach and has also been produced as a poster to promote the project. The posters will be seen throughout Philadelphia in the coming weeks.
The monthly poster winners will also get the added bonus of having their work displayed at the Lincoln 200 festival in Philadelphia over the 4th of July weekend.
Original Media winners to-date are:
• James Angel of Arizona, for A Tall Tale, a work in acrylic on panel;
• Michele Parliament of Wisconsin for LOL(Land of Lincoln), a surreal digital collage giclee print on transparency; and
• Stephanie Ursula Hodges of New York for When You Know Enough to Turn Him Inside Out, an oil painting on canvas.
Additional grand prizes include:
• Original Media Grand Prize: a trip for two to Philly, including transportation, hotel, and a personal tour of the Finding Lincoln exhibition and lunch with the 21st-Century Abe team. (Grand Prize Deadline: June 30)
• Visitor Choice Award: $50 gift card to Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (Grand Prize Deadline: July 31)
Entries in all media formats may be submitted through July 31, 2009. For official contest terms and conditions, visit www.21stcenturyabe.org/contest.
As inspiration, 21stCenturyAbe.org also features creative interpretations of the Lincoln materials by scholar Douglas Wilson, artist/illustrator Maira Kalman, musician Bryce Dessner of the band The National, Philadelphia comedy theater company 1812 Productions and multimedia artists Archive (Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick).
21st-Century Abe sheds light on Lincoln's views on race, his patterns of thought and rhetoric, and his role as a celebrity, both in his own day and ours. The 30 featured documents, many rarely seen by the public, range from the Baltimore Address to Lincoln's attempt to explain his family history. The innovative website encourages site visitors to participate in the conversation about the 16th President of the United States, view the Lincoln documents digitally and contribute responses in words, songs, videos, photos, drawings, web links and other media.
This project has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, through the Heritage Philadelphia Program with additional support from the Marketing Innovation Program. Additional support has come from the Samuel S. Fels Fund and The Raab Collection.
The project celebrates Lincoln's life, work and words through an interactive website featuring creative interpretations of 30 documents from the Rosenbach's collection of rare and significant Lincoln materials, such as speeches, letters and notes.
Each month, the curators of 21st-Century Abe choose winners from submitted work and award prizes in Poster Design, Punditry and Original Media, from which they will choose grand prize winners. Submissions have come from artists in PA, NY, NJ, MT, AZ, OR, IL, WI, NC, IA, and DC. All monthly winners will have their work displayed online and in the Rosenbach's exhibition Finding Lincoln, which just opened on May 27th and runs through August 30th.
Additionally, monthly winners receive custom, limited edition 21st-Century Abe hats created by the hat company Quintin. View photos of the hat online here.
Kristine Borscz of Chicago, IL submitted the Grand Prize-winning 21st-Century Abe poster design which can be viewed here. Her work, Abe of the 21st-Century, is now on display at the Rosenbach and has also been produced as a poster to promote the project. The posters will be seen throughout Philadelphia in the coming weeks.
The monthly poster winners will also get the added bonus of having their work displayed at the Lincoln 200 festival in Philadelphia over the 4th of July weekend.
Original Media winners to-date are:
• James Angel of Arizona, for A Tall Tale, a work in acrylic on panel;
• Michele Parliament of Wisconsin for LOL(Land of Lincoln), a surreal digital collage giclee print on transparency; and
• Stephanie Ursula Hodges of New York for When You Know Enough to Turn Him Inside Out, an oil painting on canvas.
Additional grand prizes include:
• Original Media Grand Prize: a trip for two to Philly, including transportation, hotel, and a personal tour of the Finding Lincoln exhibition and lunch with the 21st-Century Abe team. (Grand Prize Deadline: June 30)
• Visitor Choice Award: $50 gift card to Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (Grand Prize Deadline: July 31)
Entries in all media formats may be submitted through July 31, 2009. For official contest terms and conditions, visit www.21stcenturyabe.org/contest.
As inspiration, 21stCenturyAbe.org also features creative interpretations of the Lincoln materials by scholar Douglas Wilson, artist/illustrator Maira Kalman, musician Bryce Dessner of the band The National, Philadelphia comedy theater company 1812 Productions and multimedia artists Archive (Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick).
21st-Century Abe sheds light on Lincoln's views on race, his patterns of thought and rhetoric, and his role as a celebrity, both in his own day and ours. The 30 featured documents, many rarely seen by the public, range from the Baltimore Address to Lincoln's attempt to explain his family history. The innovative website encourages site visitors to participate in the conversation about the 16th President of the United States, view the Lincoln documents digitally and contribute responses in words, songs, videos, photos, drawings, web links and other media.
This project has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, through the Heritage Philadelphia Program with additional support from the Marketing Innovation Program. Additional support has come from the Samuel S. Fels Fund and The Raab Collection.