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About Oil Drum Art

The grass roots art movement.

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OilDrumArt

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Apr 15, 2008

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Apr 15, 2008

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OIL DRUM ART* MISSION: The 55-gallon steel drum is a metaphor providing artists worldwide an opportunity to create aesthetic, environmental, and geopolitical statements about our society. This new art form provides educational opportunities and ecological commentaries as part of a grass roots art movement that will spread throughout the world as a new art form of awareness. Oil Drum Art culminates in major international exhibitions worldwide, becoming a visual forum for meaningful dialogues between art & society, and positively makes a difference.
*Oil Drum Art, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with 501c3 status.

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United States

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THE CORE PRINCIPLE OF OIL DRUM ART: Oil Drum Art is a call to the artists in worldwide communities to define modern civilization using a 55 gallon oil drum as a common medium. The Oil Drum Art project is an invitation to bring art into direct contact with our global civilization so as to enlighten it, perhaps for posterity, and evoke change. The possessing and controlling of oil has been a defining policy objective for the world's community of nations. The oil drum contains the essential energy of our world, without which our modern civilization could not exist. The oil drum container in its vast simplicity as a symbol common to all, evokes every one of the forces: greed, hope, peace and havoc, that have influenced humankind for a century or more. When used as a means of expression, the oil drum reminds everyone that art has a place, not just in museums, but wherever it may be seen and pondered, and not just as art, but as philosophy whose energy transmits through a common symbol.

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