Welcome to the 22nd
Annual •••••Artists of
the Wall Festival
We have 160 spaces again this year
and it would be good to get your
registration form completed and
mailed in ASAP.
We expect to have all the spaces “sold”
prior to May 23rd and the registration
requests beyond the 160 spaces will be held
as stand-by for the no-shows.
The registration form has some
NEW items for your consideration:
1. You MUST HAVE a Tarp to
protect the sidewalk. Order
yours for only $1.00 on page
#1.
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2. 20 Anniversary signed and
numbered prints for sale @ $5
each or $8 for two!
These
are great gifts! {also on page 1}
3. Donations can be included to
round-up your payment on
page one – all amounts will
help our community.
Be sure to sign @ the bottom of
page one when you complete the
form. Mail-in just page one with
your payment/donation check.
Also, review & print & keep a copy of
page two, three, & four ---- to be sure
you are in compliance with the rules
and guidelines.
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Each year has a different AOW theme
and the theme for 2015 is:
“Expressions of Light”
The United Nations has declared
2015 as the International Year
of Light because it will be the
1,000th, 200th, 150th, 100th and 50th
anniversary of major discoveries
regarding the nature of light.
Some of the scientific anniversaries
that will be celebrated by the
United Nations this year are:
 1015: The Book of Optics, a
seven-volume treatise by
medieval Arab scholar
Ibn Al-Haytham
 1815: The notion of light as a
wave proposed by French
engineer and physicist,
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
 1865: The electromagnetic
theory of light propagation
proposed by
James Clerk Maxwell,
Scottish mathematical physicist
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1915: Albert Einstein’s theory of
the photoelectric effect in 1905 and
of the embedding of light in
cosmology through general relativity
1965: Discovery of the cosmic
microwave background by
Americans
Arno Allan
Penzias and Robert Woodrow
Wilson, and Charles Kao’s
achievements concerning the
transmission of light in fibers for
optical communication
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This year each Artist of the
Wall will be expressing light
with paints while bathed in the
natural light of the sky.
Come and celebrate the
International Year of Light
with your own, unique
expressions & have lots of fun.
Without light there could be no visual arts
because they depend on the interplay of
light. Without light there would be no
sunrise over Lake Michigan or sparkling
reflections off the water or that incredible
quality of atmospheric illumination that
artists and photographers love along our
lakefront.
Our lake couldn't change moods from a
silvery gray to deep emerald green to
intense azure.
There would be no Artists of the Wall to be
seen. There wouldn't even be Artists.
Without solar radiation, part of which we
see as light, there wouldn't be a source of
energy to sustain life on Earth.
Light is expressed in many different ways:
 Physicists express light using the
vocabulary of mathematics.
 Photographers capture and express
light as images on pieces of paper.
 Musicians express light as the tonal
“colors” of diverse musical
instruments.
“I've created a painting for the festival –
Since this year’s theme is ‘light’
I figured it is appropriate to use our
beloved Farwell/Pratt Pier Lighthouse
as well as the sun/moon in the sky.”
Anastasia Mak --2015 - Tee shirt & advertising art
by Rogers Park resident
AnastasiaMak.com