Do you buy groceries? Do you buy records? Do you take stuff from one location to another?
We screenprinted some tote bags for you featuring artwork by M.E.L.
(model = a.cowboy)
Don’t know who M.E.L. is? look for a copy of Subversive downtown! (blue cover) here’s a little expert advice from M.E.L.
“I think we all struggle with being overly reliant on our phones instead of on eachother. Don’t stop making or doing stuff or engaging with others. When we do, we lose all knowledge and motivation and suffer as a society. Make work that challenges, teaches, or is useful. Notice how little of what you interact with was made by a person, counteract that and make something by hand. Go see art in other places: Baltimore, Lancaster, Pittsburgh, DC, Philly, Columbus, Richmond… There is so much out there and so much of it is close by. Connect with what you like in other places, think of how you could imagine it here in Frederick in our own unique Frederick way–then make it happen. Engage with local politics. Our city government listens, they might not do what you want, but they listen… so start a conversation.”
