Tom Tom Foundation

We are a not for profit that educates the public about innovation and entrepreneurship. We do this through the events of the Tom Tom Founders Festival in Charlottesville VA. Proceeds from our events create grants for the production and display of Public Art.

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McGUFFEY MURAL CONTEST

92' of concrete need your ART! $500 Cash Prize. All paint supplied by Tom Tom. Girl Scout Troupe has volunteered to help you paint it.

FULL DETAILS

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1st INAUGURAL MCGUFFEY MURAL CONTEST

Tom Tom Founders Festival throws a block party on Friday, April 12 at the McGuffey Art Center. 

  In the midst of Latin, Rap, Rock & Americana, attendees will witness the completion of a mural stretching across a retaining wall at the North End of McGuffey.

  The wall is roughly 4'3" Tall and runs 92'7"!

      CONTEST DETAILS:

    PRIZE: $500 Cash.   TOM TOM: supplies paint & dropclothes. WINNING ARTIST: supplies Brushes & Design & Manages Fabrication. CREATION: Mural must be fabricated between April 1-12.

NOTES:

*The entire wall should be seen as one continuous 92 foot long composition.

*The wall will be prepped with a flat white acrylic primer surface.

*The four pages listed above are sequential photographs of the entire wall and have blank scaled drawings underneath that you should use to present your design ideas.

*You will be responsible for fabricating this BUT there will be volunteers to help you depending on the level of assistance you request.

*High res photos available for review

APPLICATIONS - OPEN NOW!

Either:

Complete application materials electronically and submit your proposal in JPEG form to [email protected]

OR

Print out the materials and submit them as 4 hard copy drawings on regular 8.5 x 11 paper which can be laid out sequentially to show your full 92 foot design.

Mail to:

     Jim Respess      McGuffey Art Center:      201 2nd Street NW      Charlottesville VA 22902

DEADLINE EXTENDED. WED. APRIL 3. NOON

APPLICATION - ONE PAGE OF WRITING PLUS DRAWINGS

Name: Phone: Email: Bio: Experience with Creating Murals:  Website(s) if available: Description of Mural Submitted:

*For mural depiction: please use scaled wall drawings above (pages 1-4). Must be a color image.

    GOOD LUCK!

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TTFF 2012 - TOMTOBERFEST - An Elliewood Block Party

Tom Tom's first event on the Corner, in partnership with U.Va Innovation, U.Va. OpenGrounds, and WTJU.

  We had a day of architectural charettes at OpenGrounds, including City Councilor, Kathleen Galvin, Architecture Faculty Chair, Inaki Alday, re imagining a critical entrance corridor to the University.

  That afternoon, U.Va Innovation interviewed prominent Innovators live for a WTJU broadcast.

  Then of course there were a ton on bands, beer gardens, bollywood dancers, New Years dragons and randomness of one of Charlottesville's great streets... Elliewood Avenue.

Full Facebook Gallery.

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TTFF 2012 - McGuffey Block Party - PT DEUX!

On September 28, 2012, we had another block party at the historic arts center: live music, dancing, beer gardens, street food, and a driving rain storm! Performances from:

The Boys & Girls Club (Southwood Steppers!) Pantherburn Chamomile & Whiskey The Music Resource Center.

Full album on Facebook.

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TOM TOM FOUNDERS FESTIVAL - 2012

2012 was our “soft open.” It featured a month of programming including a 55 band music festival, a Resident Artists and Innovators program, and a “Place Based Innovation” series about Charlottesville based industries. There were also Block parties, Latte Art competitions, Poetry smack-downs, and over 25 free events.

Check out the full Calendar, with descriptions of the talks, concerts, and art that filled the event.

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Ed Miller - 2012 Artist in Residence

Ed Miller was one of Tom Tom’s inaugural Artists In Residence. A Sculptor at the University of Virgina, Ed created the “Reading Bear” during Tom Tom. He unveiled the bear at the McGuffey Block Party, where attendees created the bear’s textured fur with their fingers. Ed presented workshops and lectures during the festival about the bear’s creation and his artistic process. The bear is now installed permanently at Baker-Butler Elementary School.

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Kate Daughdrill - 2012 Artist in Residence

Kate Daughdrill was one of Tom Tom's inaugural Artists In Residence. Kate is a Detroit-based artist and UVA grad. Kate co-founded Detroit SOUP, a public dinner that funds micro-grants for creative projects in Detroit. Kate’s community-based art projects have received acclaim from the New York Times, the Toronto Star, and the Huffington Post. Kate brought an engaging series of communal art ideas to the Tom Tom Founders Festival by leading a birdseed printing project in the downtown mall and surrounding streets.

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