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clay Public Relations Team Application 2023-24

Hello prospective staff! 

Social media is critical in bringing the clay community to life. The PR team will be responsible for maintaining and posting new content to the social media accounts of clay (Instagram, Facebook, and the Forums). We’re looking for dedicated and creative individuals to do this. If you’re interested, please apply below. Applications are due on July 7, 2023.

Blessings, 

Cara Pisani and Isabel Rogers

2023-2024 Senior Editors


PR Manager: This editor will be responsible for organizing the Public Relations team and editing their social media posts before they are published. While social media experience is highly recommended for this position, we are mainly looking for a creative individual who is dedicated to bringing awareness of clay to the broader TPS community. PR Managers will be working with designers, photographers, and writers to produce a cohesive image of clay

Content Creators: There will be several content managers this year. These content creators will each be assigned a day of the week to post photos and graphics provided by the PR photographers and graphic designers, create captions, and work together to create a well-developed and fluid feed. As the face of the clay feed, the content managers will be required to provide professional and engaging posts. 

Engagement Manager: Our engagement manager will commit to consistently liking and commenting on the clay social media photos, as well as using the clay accounts to engage with the community.

PR Photographers: Although it’s certainly helpful if all Public Relations content managers have photography and design experience, the PR team needs enthusiastic, experienced, full-time photographers. Our PR Photographers will provide content managers with photos for social media posts. They will each be required to provide about six to ten high-quality and TPS-approved photos per month for the content managers to use in their social media posts.

PR Graphic Designer: The PR Graphic Designer will be responsible for working with clay’s content creators and photographers to provide unique and custom graphics to be used in clay’s social media feed. The PR Graphic Designer will provide a few graphics per month for the content creators.  Applicants for this position should submit four to six samples of relevant graphic design work in their application. The PR Graphic Designer will also help the Senior Editors host and judge the annual TPS T-shirt design competition. 

Student Submission Coordinator: The Student Submission Coordinator will be responsible for managing an email account dedicated to receiving guest work for the clay social media accounts. He or she will communicate with guest photographers, designers, and artists to feature their work on the clay social media accounts. We are looking for a Student Selection Coordinator eager to find and showcase new work and talent on the clay social media accounts.

Social media experience is recommended, but not required to apply for Public Relations. All team members will receive training before the beginning of the school year.



PR Manager applicants: Please edit and turn in the following piece as you would for a content creator.

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Dear readers of Clay Magazine, I would like to today discuss something tthat you may have seen, which is graffiti. *nods* Everyone always sees graffiti when they are driving their cars on the highway (like me, because I just got my liscense) (merging lanes is rly hard). One day, the gray, dark big tunnels and lanes turn to something different. One morning, a formerly plain bridge before is covered, all the way, from top to bottom, head to toe, front to back, all over, in neon graffiti so brighter that your eyes would get blurry *&^% shapes and colors galore! %^&* I wonder how did the artist get up to the top?!??? How did the police not catch them?!??? What a mystery for us all!!! Graffiti is art made on structures and buildings and fences and all kinds of places. Graffiti artists face hefty hefty hefty fines and even arrests!! in some states for “tagging” – and removal teams blast their work away later (BOOOOOOO in my opinion). It is definitely the truth that graffiti can sometimes be crude (uh oh) or on public property, but my personal rebuttal to that statement is that graffiti should ser legal because it is something very artistic and beautiful and pretty and i <3 how nice it looks and also, leaving it up, would lower the government’s expenses to the ground floor.

A common objection to legalizing graffiti that I hear all the time *eye roll* is that people do not want or desire vulgar words and images on their private property, which they do own by themselves. Civilians become to hate graffiti because it sometimes portrays vulgar or crude things (uh oh otra vez) here A lovely stroll through the city souring from inappropriate images or pictures or is like a worm found in a lovely red apple (bleh). I really don’t like apples all that much, but I think that this is a really really good metaphor for this situation. How ever, there are a solution. Mostly graffiti is not XXX on private-property and only a eensy weensy portion of it contains objectionationable material. So, you should remove vulgar tagging and prohibit the defacement of private property, but let the rest enrich sublime tunnels, bridges, and subway cars and more! et cetera et cetera.

If graffiti enriches public structures like I just said, it must be art, duh. art galleries throw all their dough at modern artists to buy a single dark line in the middle center of a blank canvas frame. Patrons, with much curious tiliting of heads, appreciate, wonder about the Meaning of The Line. Why Should it change on the streets???? Huh?? The abstract trippy words and colors of graffitis expresses the artists unique thoughts and ideas fr fr Its definetly difficult for some people to appreciate, but an untraditional expression is art nonetheless. And street art is not always even literally like hard to appreciate. Take for example Bansky, a London-based street artist, for example. He creates fun cool works that often have an political or social meaning have behind themselves. Wealthy or wealtheiest people even detach the actual wall or structure that surrounding Banksy’s graffiti to auction it away and off to the highest bidder!! Crazy. His created piece “Devolved Parliament”, a painting that portrays the English government system (partilmient) as crude apes sold for £9.9 million <- sorry that number is in pounds, but I usually use dollars you will have to do the converting yourself sorry . wooooowheee that’s some big bucks!!! Banksy is just not the only hombre  in the growing world of becuase there exist many refined and equizite beautiful spray paintings – in cities all over the world, new art pieces, are popping up. Tourists to the places hunt through the streets to discovery of new brilliant pieces like a scavenger hunt like where’s waldo.

Not only the fact is graffiti super valuable enough that some people like pay for it, but in addition removing it costs these communities billions and billions and billions and bajillions of buckaroos every year!! According to an report from the Department of Justice (wayyyy back in 2006 when steve irwin died RIP), the government spends around 12 billion dollars!! a evry year cleaning graffiti acrossed the whole nation. see the end of this article for the sytashun. This really good statisstic i provided doesn’t even show money spent by cities governments for graffiti removal or for the legal process for graffiti crimes – even more grrrrrrr. even Despite this expenditure, graffiti, some wanted and some even not, stilll even now appears everywhere in cities across the universe and beyond in order to reduce this cost, removal teams with their painting and water and tools should in my humblest opionn only come and spend the big bucks for vulgar graffiti or that what is placed on private property- like i’ve been saying can’t you see it coming together now? They would have the ability to get every single last one of the unwanted images that previously went untouched because they aint wasting their time any mor. plus, here’s something you haven’t considered, extra money and time could be used INSTEAD in develop the arts education for children in the inner city, causing a circular cycle of good as unwanted graffiti might then reduce!!!! 🙂 doesn’t that sounds great?

Graffiti has a reputation muy bad for being vulgar and destructive 🙁 However, the government should permit graffiti *thumbs up from the president* because you see that its a valuable creative expression for people that’s important and the legalization of street art would conserve funds – and we all know that money can be an issue here with inflation and all. All this longggg essay is to say that we would just maybe gain just a few beautiful, enriching opportunities if you just do what I say.

SMASH that SUBSCRIBE BUTTON if you agree!!!! Comment down below and donate to my sister’s Gofundme! adiós

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la fotografía, banksy

U.S. Department of Justice, the interweb http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/e11011354.pdf 

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