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Jessica Blankenship
Punch-Bot PR
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National public relations company announces 2011 arts pro bono clients
Growing public relations group extends support to 4 emerging Atlanta creative entities
ATLANTA, GA (January 5, 2011) – Punch-Bot PR, a national Atlanta-based public relations and writing agency, announces their pro bono partnerships with four of Atlanta’s brightest emerging creative contributors: Photographer / visual artist Jason Travis, musical darlings The Back Pockets, street art advocates Living Walls, and multi-disciplinary art space CouchCouch. Punch-Bot’s support of these artists, musicians, and organizations marks a continued effort to invest in the future growth and advancement of Atlanta’s creative environment, as well as national and international contextualization of the impact of Atlanta arts and music through powerful public / media relations efforts.
· Jason Travis is an established multi-disciplinary powerhouse in Atlanta. Known for his beautiful professional photography and fresh, innovative graphic design work, Jason Travis shines as one of Atlanta’s most sought-after event photographers and designers, both locally and nationally. He further contributes to the cultural dialogue through his visual art, which has been displayed in a number of galleries in recent years, curatorial efforts, contribution to Atlanta culture website PurgeATL, and his band, Sealions.
· The Back Pockets’ combination “performance art and derelict indie rock” has made all of Atlanta fall in love over the past two years. Theirs is the kind of piecemeal perfection that is exemplary of the exact brand of cross-disciplinary creative exercise that is so prevalent in Atlanta; artists and musicians of all kinds are fluidly crossing lines and refusing to be restricted to just one method of expression. The Back Pockets are the poster children for what Atlanta’s air of creative free-for-all can beget. With the mounting momentum of this band, along with their current national tour, The Back Pockets are poised for widespread success beyond Atlanta.
· Living Walls began as an idea for a poster show at Atlanta’s Eyedrum Music + Art Gallery in August 2010. What it became was an epic street art explosion, resulting in dozens of internationally renowned artists descending on Atlanta to paint murals, a transformative art show attended by thousands, and a thought-provoking day of lectures by leaders in the areas of urbanism, art and public spaces. The conference marked a pinnacle of growing discussion about Atlanta’s relationship with art, and how public space is conceived and interacted with. Living Walls also singlehandedly raised Atlanta’s international profile in these areas from a blip on the radar to a beacon for forward thinking and discourse. As Living Walls moves into 2011, it is transforming into a not-for-profit info-hub for similar events to be replicated all over the world.
· CouchCouch, on the Old Fourth Ward stretch of Edgewood Avenue, is exemplary of what it means to be a creative space in Atlanta. Recognizing the imperative for co-operative relationships between the arts and the community, proprietress April Leigh has used CouchCouch not only to house a number of local and touring bands, film screenings and literary events, but to be a conduit for local interaction through neighborhood events like free markets. In light of the evolving composition of Old Fourth Ward, and Atlanta as a whole, CouchCouch stands to be the prototype for creative spaces that go beyond just housing events to being an actively fostering entity in the local cultural dialogue.
In the coming year, Punch-Bot will be working with this dynamic group on several fronts: national and international media relations, development of online presence, and the fostering of mutually beneficial partnerships with other artists, musicians and organizations. The end results of these endeavors will not only serve to advance the careers of these emerging organizations, but also to highlight the unique strengths of the current cultural climate in Atlanta; there is something palpable, energetic and unique happening among the creative circles of Atlanta and this is one further step in presenting that to the rest of the world.
To find out more about Punch-Bot PR and their new group of pro bono clients, please visit http://www.punchbotpr.com.
About Punch-Bot PR
Punch-Bot PR is two things: pro bono public relations for the arts, and clever, do-it-all PR and writing solutions for business. With an extensive record working with everyone from mom-and-pop endeavors to CIO 500 and Fortune 1000 companies, Punch-Bot provides a range of services for business:
· Online content development
· Product descriptions
· Creative and non-traditional communications and marketing solutions
· Cultivating contacts and market relevancy
· Branding identity
· Business writing
· Proposal writing
· Social media
· Ghostwriting–everything from by-line articles and blog posts to entire books
· Media relations, including pitching, story placement, and relationship building
· Event planning & Coordination
· Crisis management
Punch-Bot’s pro bono partnerships with emerging local artists, musicians and creative organizations are fully funded by the agency’s for-profit work. Delivering results in all areas of public relations, content development, writing, social media and more, Punch-Bot has worked with B2B and B2C businesses in dozens of industries on three continents. To find out more about a new approach to fully integrated PR and writing services, visitwww.punchbotpr.com.