RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

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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