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Category Archives: Arts advocacy
Theseus
This is my comment to extend the conversation on that article I wrote for the Arts Professional blog. ——————————————– I think both responses thus far highlight exactly what is at stake in this conversation: To what extent are we willing … Continue reading →
Being There for the arts
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again. President “Bobby”: Spring and summer. Chance the Gardener: Yes. … Continue reading →
Branding
Written after reading another shameless suggestion that artists NEED brands. And apologies in advance for being such an ass. I think brands are just fine for the people who do prefer to work that way. That can be an honest … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Arts advocacy, Arts education, Creative industry, Creativity, Imagination, metacognition, Wittgenstein
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Why is art a luxury?
“I forgot armed robbery was illegal!” A joke told by Steve Martin What would it mean to forget armed robbery was illegal? What makes that so funny? Would it be like forgetting where you put your keys? Like forgetting someone’s … Continue reading →
Defending the arts with the NEA on the brink of extinction
There has already been word filtering from the new administration that in order to balance the budget there would need to be a purge of liberal welfare programs like the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment … Continue reading →
Giving the public what it wants only perpetuates the abuse of artists
I read a post by an arts administrator the other day and was disappointed by how art was being taken almost entirely as “serving the public”. Its as if art is only defined by what it does for an audience … Continue reading →
‘Curing’ starving artists
Written in response to yet another marketing and business solution to the difficulty artists have in making a living. ——————————————– When you describe something as needing a cure you have already accepted that there is a problem. I understand the … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Arts advocacy, Creative industry, Creativity, Imagination, metacognition
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The Darwinian fate of Dreams, redux
My blog just blew up yesterday as someone shared an essay written some 4 years ago. Thanks whoever you are! Its a good essay about the precarious lives creative people have, written after my worst ever sale. I encourage you … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Arts advocacy, Arts education, Beauty, Creative industry, Creativity, Ephemera, Imagination, metacognition
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Does art even matter?
Sigh. Like for many of you, I am supposing, something significant about the world changed last Tuesday. Values for society and our communities were suddenly brought into question. Many seeming certainties showed the fractures of doubt. Not that we believed … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Arts advocacy, Beauty, Creative industry, Creativity, Imagination, metacognition, Pottery
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Notes from The Land of Make Believe
The past year or more I have been tangling myself in conversations attempting to figure out how value works in human lives. We don’t like talking about it, so mostly I am met with silence or treated like a heretic. … Continue reading →
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