I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts

About I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts

In conjunction with the open call and Summer 2009 exhibition, I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts, Jersey City Museum is asking the public to share their photographs of their freinds and family in this group. Upload as many photos as you wish or simply enjoy images contributed by other visitors.

Photos submitted to the exhibition's Flickr group will be featured in a slideshow at the opening reception for the exhibition on July 30, 2009!

Please note:
-Jersey City Museum may wish to feature your submission/s as part of its online and offline promotions. By adding your photo to this group, you thereby agree to grant JCM permission to display your photo in online and offline promotions. If you would like to include your photo in the group but would not like your submission to be used elsewhere, simply email jcmedia@jerseycitymuseum.org with your Flickr username and a short note.
-Photographs submitted to the group must include one or more persons in them. Submissions not meeting that criteria or containing inappropriate content will be removed from the group.
-Photos added to the I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts photo group are not guaranteed to be included in the exhibition. Please submit 4x6 photographs my mail (details below) to ensure that your photos be included in the exhibition.

About I Love Jersey City
In Spring 2008, Jersey City Museum organized I Love Jersey City, an open call for the public's photographs of their beloved city. This became a summer exhibition in the museum's upper atrium featuring these diverse and colorful images. Displaying over 150 photographs by professionals and amateurs alike, the project proved was a success and even inspired a specially-made Jersey City Museum I Love Jersey City t-shirt which was featured in Time Out New York.

This Spring of 2009, Jersey City Museum asks the public to participate in a new season of I Love Jersey City with Everybody Counts. I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts was created with 2010, the year of the National Census, in mind. Mandated by the Constitution, the National Census takes place every ten years and is one of the most important events in the public and political life of those living in the United States. The Census takes less than 10 minutes to complete and all the information in it is protected by federal law. Most importantly, Census data are used to distribute Congressional seats to states, to make decisions about what kind of community services to provide, and to distribute $300 billion in federal funds to local, state and tribal governments each year.

In support of this significant process, Jersey City Museum seeks portraits of people that you know and love who work, play, or live Jersey City. With this open call for the public's photographs, JCM hopes to celebrate the act of counting every human being in the country.

Send the museum your images of loved ones, family, and friends-all those who count-for inclusion in this year's I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts exhibition. Photos of all those who live, work, or play in our beloved city of Jersey City are welcome. The exhibition will be on display in the museum's second floor from July 30 through December 19, 2009. The opening reception of the exhibition will be July 30, 2009, 6-8 pm.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL WORKS OF ART, they will not be returned. The Museum seeks 4 x 6 inch photographs (color or black and white), with a maximum of five (5) photographs to be submitted per individual. Works to be displayed will be a selection from the entries received. PLEASE WRITE YOUR NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION ON THE BACK OF EACH PHOTOGRAPH SUBMITTED (5 max.), and include your name, address, phone and email. You may mail your submissions to:

I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts
Jersey City Museum
P.O. Box 428
Jersey City, NJ 07303-0428

Submissions may also be dropped off during regular museum hours at the reception desk.

Deadline: July 10th, 2009.

For more information about Jersey City Museum, please visit www.jerseycitymuseum.org.

Questions? Email rita@jerseycitymuseum.org.

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