Please help me fight this citation

Dear friends and fellow creatives:

This morning I woke up at 3 am to my mind racing with the concept of asking people to financially fight the citation given to me by Martinsburg’s City Hall (aka. the Mayor and City Manager)  Please consider giving any amount that you feel comfortable giving!  I pledge to do what I can to better Martinsburg using the arts to do so.  Thank you.  Artfully Yours, David F. Heatwole

click on the link below to be directed to the ChipIn site (and if you do not have paypal or want to pay with credit card over the internet feel free to mail checks to 304 Bowers St.  Martinsburg,  WV 25401 or call me and i can take you credit card over the phone!

http://davidheatwole.chipin.com/to-fight-martinsburg-city-halls-citation-for-illegal-dumping

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Welcome to my blog

Hello guest welcome to my imagination realm!  Herein you will find various works of art that I am trying to put in order by their date of creation for my own cataloging.  You will also find some other conceptualizations that I have either proposed here or there and may still be trying to bring to fruition somewhere in the world.

One thing that you must know about me (if you must) and that is that I am not just one that believes in art for arts sake but also believe that the arts could play a roll in society like never before seen.  It is my dream to one day see my wildest ideas come to life in order to transform societies both locally and globally.  I do believe that the key to solving many of man’s ailments and ongoing problems are stored in the imagainations of the artisans, they just need a great marketing team to make them work for society.  I want to be part of assembling this marketing team (of sorts).  You may think this is to far out, but I have to say isn’t it far out that the most creative society in the world still thinks that throwing glorified rocks at enemys will solve the problems?  Why isn’t the imagination being used to come up with really far out ideas to battle wars, to make a dent in poverty and hunger.  I, for one, am an artist stuck painting these ideas/concepts to those who already have their mind up.  I am having to teach and I am not a teacher.  I am one that sees potential and want to keep sharing this potential with others and collectively/synergistically work with others that have talents that I do not have to make these things come to life.

For now I will have to hope that someone is reading this and getting something/anything from my work.  To really see more about my mission please go to http://www.artscollaborative.org and http://www.masterpieceartkits.com

Thanks for visiting.

Artfully Yours,

David

See a slide show work from my D.J.Priest series including some 3-D images

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Slide show of work from David Johnson series

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I was listed as number 6 of the “Latest, Greatest Artists” according to HumanAnswers.net!

WOW! I just found out that I was numbered 6 of one of HumanAnswers.net(s) “Latest, Greatest Artists” at least according to their article: “Who are some of the Latest, Greatest Artists?” I guess I better work harder! http://humanswers.net/newart

Newest article from the Herald Mail!

Here is a great article from the Herald Mail about the unveiling of the mural, I am currently working on, April 21st in Martinsburg.  It’s going to be a blast!  Come all ye with good throwing arms!

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-artists-mural-will-test-the-waters-20120328,0,928992.story

Made a stink in town and nationally with a Toilet

Many people have read about my caper with the toilet in the city square here in Martinsburg, WV.   I thought I would place here in my blog a number of the links to the articles for posterity and for those that haven’t read about it.  I would like to that the City Mayor, Manager and all those involved in making my Potty Art statement that much more successful by seemingly getting bent out of shape about it.  It was nothing personal.  And you don’t own this city so why get so angry over it!  If I had broken the empty sculpture/monument stand then I could see possibly stringing me up but I was doing a somewhat harmless little statement about how creativity can change the world one city at a time.

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-artists-stunt-aimed-at-getting-more-art-in-martinsburg-20120418,0,1046529.story

http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/578417/Area-artist-looks-to–flush–out-attention.html

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-martinsburg-artist-cited-in-toilet-incident-20120419,0,1942789.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wva-artist-charged-with-littering-after-putting-toilet-on-city-pedestal-in-potty-prank/2012/04/20/gIQAFCITVT_story.html

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/hm-martinsburg-artist-cited-in-toilet-incident-20120419,0,920516.story

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54880

http://www.fox8live.com/story/17597663/wva-artist-charged-with-littering-in-potty-prank

http://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyle/w-va-artist-charged-with-littering-in-potty-prank-1363071.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/weird-news/ci_20441864/w-va-artist-charged-littering-potty-prank

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/wva-artist-charged-with-l_n_1440480.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/wva-artist-charged-with-l_n_1440480.html

http://www.denverpost.com/watercooler/ci_20441864/w-va-artist-charged-littering-potty-prank

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/04/west-virginias-outlaw-toilet-bandit-explains-his-artistic-vision/1829/

http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/W-Va-artist-charged-with-littering-in-potty-prank-3497279.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10206435

http://www.artnewscentral.com/node/23237/who_voted

Also seen on Newsweek.com, Arteconomist.com, USAnews.com

Potty boy speaks at City Council again

The Toilet Bandit (that’s me) spoke to Martinsburg City Council meeting tonight.  This time I was presenting another idea on top of the idea presented last month of having contemporary sculpture on the now vacant sculpture stand in the new Town Square area.  This time I proposed having living sculpture there until we have another plan in the works.  Attached below is a pdf file of what I gave the city council to chew on including a great statement from Kristen Lee a direct decendant of the founder of Martinsburg.  General Adam Stephen whom the city council was planning to memorialize in the form of a Bronze sculpture . . . only problem being no one knows what he looked like.   Please read and be entertained.  The only thing I will mention is that Kirsten did add a line to her statement after i had already printed out the kits so it was not read or given to the city council and probably for the better being that they might not be to happy to discuss, in any way, the toilet caper of last month.  This added line is in Red.

click on text below.

Martinsburg City Council meeting 5/10/2012

The stinky story continues

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-martinsburg-artist-fighting-littering-charge-in-toilet-incident-20120502,0,1948500.story

Sculpture Examples for City Square – Martinsburg WV

The evening before this Art Stunt (April 17th) Monday April 16th I made a short presentation/proposal to an unprepared City Council.  I spoke favorably for the new City Square that cost an arm and a leg and commended all that were involved in the creation of it.  But then I moved to discussing the empty sculpture pedestal that was established to hold a future commissioned bronze monument of Gen. Adam Stephens.  Problem to that plan is that supposedly there is no representation of the General that founded our fair city.  Which I am, and many others are happy about because frankly another monument to a historical figure would not draw people to our community and that is what we need as a lot of struggling historical down towns.  I proposed that the City Council consider placing a contemporary work of art there instead, and hold a competition for the public and sculptors to participate in.   It could be a colorful kinetic abstract piece of art (example of Lee Badger’s work) or an imaginative surreal work of art made of reclaimed metal (as shown in the photo shopped piece by Scott Cawood).  It could even be an energetic abstract work of art out of stone(See example of Carl Wright’s piece)

Allow the public to vote of the submissions and at the same time encourage people to take ownership of their city.  Fund the top 5 submissions to develop their ideas further and then have another public vote on the final 1.  Possibly fund the development of all of the other 4 and put them in other places in the city.

Martinsburg has many issues going against it, so on Tuesday the 17th at 8:30 in the morning, after seeing the kids off to school, I took the step forward to put the Toilet in the Square to get people talking about the future of the city and maybe bring more art into the downtown area.  Art can make it more alive, more exciting, and more welcoming.

I have been charged with Illegal Dumping which is ironic when only a year and a half prior I put together a mural that involved the community in it’s development.  The mural was of Vincent Van Gogh and was made of thousands of upcycled bottle lids.  See MasterpieceArtKits.com to see more murals of similar nature created since Van Gogh!