l_a_brewery_art ([info]l_a_brewery_art) wrote,
@ 2005-02-02 03:19:00
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Spring Artwalk dates:

Saturday & Sunday May 14 & 15, 2005, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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artist exploitation
(Anonymous)
2005-04-09 05:44 am UTC (link)
Last art walk, I was inundated with students taking pictures and writing about the art - O.K. they are students and are mostly nice people. Then I am hit up to spend an afternoon at a local school to give young students a pep talk about being an artist. I have to decline because I also have to work so that I can live here and make art.
After the artwalk, my email is inundated with solitation to buy cards, rebuild my website, other artist's websites - I think they thought I was running a gallery, buy art materials, etc.
And tonight I get a note at my door from some dude who wants to put a donation box in every unit during the artwalk for his pet project to raise money for LA Unified.
I'm not a hard-hearted person, am basically a nice person and I have personally worked with at-risk youth for many years.
But the artists do pay for the artwalk and many invest in setting up their studios for presentation. I have noticed that the people hitting up the artists are generally not the ones buying the artwork - they are not supporting the artists.

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Re: artist exploitation
[info]l_a_brewery_art
2005-04-10 01:47 am UTC (link)
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