written by Maurice Cardinal
International Artist Day is celebrating its 20th Anniversary on October 25, 2024.
We’re asking something of artists this year that we’ve never done in the past. We’re inviting all artists to join us in a very special way to help celebrate the contributions artists make to society.
Instead of simply inviting everyone to create generic Happy International Artist Day cards, we’d like you to consider incorporating a message about the health and vitality of our planet in your designs, and especially our relationship with FOOD and how it is grown in a responsible manner that helps heal the earth.
Show us how you’re connected to, and love our earth.
As always, do it any way that works for artistically you, but this year we’re hoping you’ll design your contribution using an eco-environmental perspective. Choose any style of art you like that supports a healthy planet and encourages people to have more care for how we tread on the earth and in our oceans.
Your subject can be anything from organic food and regenerative agriculture, to protecting the oceans and forests and everything in between.
Over the last two decades we’ve seen all types of art from paintings to music videos, including performance art, and we’re hoping you’ll surprise us again this year with something new, maybe in the digital realm.
Artificial intelligence is welcomed too, but please identify it as Ai.
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If you’re an artist, create a Happy International ARTIST DAY message and share it among your community. Tens of thousands of artists do it every year, so the more the merrier.
Your celebratory message can be any size analog or digital 2D/3D still imagery, animated, a photo, sculpture, food, drink, music, a video if you like, or a POEM, an NFT, and more! It can be Ai or EiEiEi 0 01 11 10 !
It could also be a SCHOOL or WORK TEAM PROJECT! Blow us away!
The point is to DO IT, and celebrate with us.
If YOU don’t celebrate the contribution artists make to society, who will … politicians?
Feel Free use our new LOGO if you like
…or our original logo
It’s TIME again… to celebrate all the contributions artists make to society.
On October 25, if you know an artist, take them to lunch, or for a drink or a little herb, maybe even buy a piece of their heart. If you don’t happen to know an artist, I feel sorry for you 😉 … we all do. Go to a street gallery or online and find art for your wall, screen or ear, or buy art for someone else, maybe a secret lover, and splurge a bit.
iAD founder and artist Chris MacClure, had an idea way back in 2004 to celebrate all the good things that artists do for society … and he launched International Artist Day!
Chris felt that artists were never recognized properly, and that a day honouring artists would remind everyone how we contribute to the betterment of humanity and the earth and universe. Chris is a talented canvas painter of the ROMANTIC REALISM persuasion.
I joined iAD in 2015 as a partner, and together we ramped it up and took International Artist Day to even more countries around the world. We evolved iAD in 2020 to iADX365 to reflect that we’re in the game every day of the year.
I’ve been a Fine Art photographer, designer, writer, and musician for decades, and still experiment with new art concepts every day!
Many people think iAD is a big team. We’re not. We’re just three artists; Chris MacClure, Marylyn Hurst his wife (and a very talented painter too), and me, Maurice, plus of course many incredible volunteers at home and abroad.
We attract a very wide variety of art and artists to our iAD events around the world …
For the most part, Chris and I fund International Artist Day, except for big events where SPONSORS graciously help out. We don’t chase government art grants–it’s what separates us from most other art orgs. We’re FREE AGENTS 😊
Our loyalty is to artists, NOT politicians.
We sometimes appear to be big because we have a FOOTPRINT of hundreds of thousands of FANS around the world. Without all the artists supporting International ARTIST DAY every day of the year, we’d never survive.
We’re grateful to and LOVE all the international artists, art organizations, and art companies over the last two decades that have helped support our co-sponsored LIVE ART EVENTS & CELEBRATIONS; Van Gogh Vodka, OPUS Art Supplies, Northwest Artist’s Canvas, Buchanan Printing & Signs, Leed Advisors, 1st R.O.W. Estate Winery, Urban Art Custom Framing, Morley Myren Re/MAX, Fernandes Arneill Wealth Management, HALEY Dodge Chrysler, to name a very few.
We also love all the art-friendly BIG companies that celebrate International Artist Day with us, like Cirque de Soleil and Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
Way back in 2004 Chris and his wife Marilyn chose October 25 because it is the late Pablo Picasso’s birthdate–the modern pioneer of contemporary art.
In better economic times we distributed CASH BURSURIES to Art Students in local high schools. Unfortunately, since the pandemic, we haven’t been able to continue delivering in this capacity–hopefully, soon again.
Help us celebrate our 20th Anniversary on October 25th and let the world know of all the great things artists do to improve society.
