Latinos Invited to Vote for the American Latino Museum 2013 Campaign

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NBCLatinoBy Yesica Lopez,  NBCLatino

Friends of the American Latino Museum are letting you decide what their 2013 will look like.

The second annual Campaign Design Contest has announced the five finalists. “We are proud to unveil the 2013 Campaign Design Contest finalists and we want our supporters to pick the winner. Their votes will determine our next design, so I encourage everyone to go to AmericanLatinoMuseum.org and pick for their favorite,” said the Chairman of the board, Cid Wilson.

Anyone can vote for their favorite design until April 25th.

The winning design will be the feature image of Friends’ national campaign 2013; the winning artist will travel to Washington D.C. to expose their work and take a role in the historic campaign to build a National Museum of the American Latino in the Capitol.

The National American Latino Museum is still years away from being built and there is plenty of work to be done, but the campaign will help to raise awareness about the museum.

In 2008, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, the former president George W. Bush signed the act of commission to study the potential creation of a National Museum of the American Latino and since 2009 the commission has been working hard, traveling around raising awareness on the importance of creating a museum to celebrate the history of the Latino community in the United States, a museum by and for the people that will showcase American Latino art and culture.

This article was first published in NBCLatino.

[Image by  Gene Jimenez]

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