Who pays? This is part of our economics discussion, a main part of the GS experiment. How can we get organizations to realize that artists, curators, writers need money, too? ...the artist advocacy group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) has continually put pressure on non-profit institutions to pay stipends to artists, both to cover the materials and time put into producing a work. Art (and curating and writing) cannot be treated as a hobbyist pursuit. As such, payment should be de rigeuer; instead it’s about as common as taking the Z train.....I want to see a change. Those of us in the arts have lived with the stigma of being poor long enough. And part of the problem is this substantial gap between the value offered to artists at the level of small and large non-profits. A better approach to funding would require across-the-board standards—it shouldn’t be just city, state, and federal grants that require artist-stipends. All forms of giving, from corporate to foundations, can require it, too. artfcity/2014/04/01/why-art-doesnt-pay/
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:05:14 +0000
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