Vote Now for POP Art Winner

by Mike Hall, Nov 19, 2009

This is one of the six finalists. Click here to see all.

The art on the left is just one of six fantastic submissions to the Public Option Please (POP) contest, launched earlier this fall to cut through the Washington Beltway “insider” clutter and provide a vehicle for artists to make the moral case for health care reform and promote a public health insurance option as a vital part of health care reform.

You can take part in the contest by helping choose a winner from among the six finalists. You have until midnight tomorrow to make your selection in the contest, sponsored by POP, a non-profit, grassroots organization committed to achieving affordable health care for all Americans. Click here to vote.

The six finalists (click here to see all and vote) were selected earlier this month by a panel of judges, including AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker. The Public Choice Award winner will be announced Saturday along with the several juried prizes chosen by the judges. The winning art works will be featured on posters, T-shirts and stickers.

The first-prize winner will receive $1,000, second-prize, $750, third-prize, $500, and the Public Choice winner will receive $750. Joining Holt Baker on the judges’ panel:

• Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.
• Jesse Dylan, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and artist.
• Marshall Ganz, a longtime organizer with the Farm Workers and lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
• Aaron Rose, a film director, art show curator, musician and writer.

The POP campaign is working with musicians, actors, artists and social justice advocates to engage the public in a way that makes the public option part of a larger, longer civil rights battle for universal health care. Click here for more information.

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