Tonight: Political T-Shirts by Artists, an Obama Fundraiser at Catherine Person Gallery

Image: Fay Jones

We Seattleites live in a political bubble. Even though just about everyone we know is as in love with Barack Obama as we are, the poll numbers for this presidential race, nation-wide, are closer than we'd like to believe.

Catherine Person Gallery hosts a fundraising event tonight, Fired Up, Ready to Wear, featuring artist-designed T-shirts for sale. Organized by artist Fay Jones, with Pam Keely (an Obama Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO), the event will feature T-shirts made by more than 40 Northwest artists, on sale for $25 each. All funds raised go to the Barack Obama Campaign for Change.

Participating artists include Fay Jones, Pam Kelly, Linda Davidson, Karen Ganz, Juan Alonso, Gail Grinnell, Kay Rood, Saya Moriyasu, Juliana Heyne, Ruth Tomlinson, Elizabeth Sandvig, Claudia Fitch, Marian Webb, and Robert Jones.

Not a slogan T-shirt wearer? One of these works just might hang nicely on your wall.

Thursday, September 25 from 6-8 p.m.
Catherine Person Gallery
The event is free and open to the public.

See Aimee Curl's take, here, in this week's Wire.