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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.

by James Lockridge
Filed under Equity & Transparency.

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“Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) is a municipal residency program that embeds artists in city government to propose and implement creative solutions to pressing civic challenges…. PAIR is based on the premise that artists are creative problem-solvers. They are able to create long-term and lasting impact by working collaboratively and in open-ended processes to build community bonds, open channels for two-way dialogue, and reimagine realities to create new possibilities for those who experience and participate in the work.”
02/14/19
“The committee had intended to question the very nature of how public monuments often propagate a masculine paradigm of “lone wolf” heroism in society by glorifying the individual — and how female statuary could shift course by honoring women’s collaborative efforts.”
01/21/19
“In his essay Public Space in a Private Time, artist Vito Acconci notes that for public art to interrupt a city design “‘art’ has to be brought back to one of its root meanings: ‘cunning.’” Unlike plop art positioned on a corner of a plaza, the unexpected presentation of art can disrupt the cityscape, rather than echo it. Since the Creative Independent’s study on the financial state of artists, published this year, found commissions were a more impactful source of income than gallery sales, Between Us demonstrates that public art commissions by institutions do not need marquee real estate to make meaningful contributions to the community.”
10/01/18
“However, just as sitting in a diverse crowd at a baseball game doesn’t necessarily create social bridges, merely standing around at an art opening together isn’t social bridging, either. For these bridges to truly form, an exchange of conversation and ideas is vital. Most importantly, it cannot happen successfully when one group is thought of as irrelevant.”
09/02/18
““I never thought I’d live in a world where people are moving to f***ing LA because it’s more affordable to live there and be a musician than Seattle or Portland,” he adds, laughing grimly. “It’s the same thing that happened in New York and San Francisco; the artists and musicians are the people who were bold enough to live in the city before anybody else did. They created the culture, and then that attracted corporations to the city. Just by their very nature, they end up demolishing the thing that led them there in the first place.”
08/07/18
““I chose street art because I don’t think it has to be an academic art that resembles the most official or authorized art, that has to represent what the republic is,” Macron said in a speech at the unveiling. “The republic belongs to everyone. It is shared.”“
07/25/18
“Low rent allows so much to happen. It allows people to take risks. Whether that’s creative risks, professional risks, sexual risks, political risks. When you don’t have low rent, you have people who have to be obedient, because they have to make a living in order to pay that rent. So they’re not gonna dissent. And they’re not gonna deviate.”
05/10/18
“The music industry’s inextricable links to alcohol and bars has left a dearth of venues accessible to under-18s, raising concerns about how the complex ecosystem that sustains a vibrant local music scene – comprising everything from record shops to independent labels to public radio – will reproduce itself without engaging audiences from a young age.”
04/11/18
“At nearly every local venue, patrons must be of drinking age to enjoy local entertainment, an unfortunate but easily solvable barrier that has been glaringly overlooked in the city’s quest to gain favor on the national stage. The city needs smaller-capacity performance spaces open to patrons of all ages, where youth can watch their favorite local bands and young artists can hone their craft in front of a live audience.”
04/06/18
“Made of concrete poured in less than 24 hours out of a Vulcan 3D printer, the single-story houses would range in size between 600–800 square feet and cost about $10,000 each — with a goal of lowering the price to less than $4000. ICON has been working with San Francisco-based housing nonprofit New Story on the project, “designed to tackle housing shortages for vulnerable populations instead of building with profit motivation,””
03/16/18

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