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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: best way to support artists?
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:54:46 -0800 (PST)

That's a really good point. Enter state employment.

That's why I push tables for a living. Just got done
moving some furniture. Hellz yeah.

--- Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I'd have thought that the best way to support
> artists would be to
> give them a job that allows them to either make
> their art, or allows
> them the time to make that art without sapping their
> energy.
>
> Short of that:
>
> 1. Affordable health plans for practicing artists
> 2. Affordable rental housing, in general,
> especially near where they
> work and/or practice their art.
> 3. SBA or private loans/bridge loans/lines of credit
> to finance
> intense periods of art-making (touring, completing
> work for an
> exhibition, working on a story/book that needs some
> dedicated
> attention.) Yes, there are grants available, but
> they are few;
> universal access to supplementary money (within
> reason) would help
> the creative community, and the rest of the
> community would reap the
> benefits ultimately. It would also put a few people
> into debt, I'm
> sure, but no artist makes a breakthrough without
> taking a risk.
>
> So, you can help create some of this. Or you can
> give a m-fer a job
> that doesn't suck.
>
> d
>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2006, at 6:48 AM, grady wrote:
>
> > You know, it occurred to me this morning that I
> never really answered
> > this question in the way that I should've:
> >
> > The best way to support [musical] artists is to go
> see them play, and
> > drag your friends along with you.
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
>


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