We Have a Winner in the Public Option Please (POP) Art Contest
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Amy Martin is a double winner in the Public Option Please (POP) art contest launched earlier this fall to cut through the rhetoric inside the Washington Beltway and provide a vehicle for artists to make the moral case for a public health insurance option as a part of health care reform.
Martin’s artwork received the highest number of votes by visitors to the POP website for the Public Choice award from among six finalists. The finalists (click here to see all) were selected by a panel of judges, including AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker.
The judges also selected Martin’s piece as the first place winner. The winning artwork will be featured on posters, T-shirts and stickers. Martin will receive $1,750 for winning the two top prizes.
Public Option: The Contest
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Are you an artist with an activist streak and belief that our broken health care system needs to be fixed now? Put your skills to work for health care reform with Public Option Please (POP) just-launched group’s visual arts contest and to promote public option as a vital part of health care reform.
The contest is designed to cut through the Washington Beltway “insider” clutter and provide a vehicle for artists to make the moral case for health care reform and take part in the debate currently raging in Congress. Apple Via, director of the POP contest, says
This is a chance for artists around the country to help express the human side of the equation. Now, instead of only hearing from the big insurance companies about protecting their profits, these artists will be making the moral case for health care as a human right. They can help shape a vision of a future where health care is available for all and nobody has to die to protect a corporate bottom line.
