With the ever abundant amount of billboards we have you think we might be able to come up with something similar to what is now going on in Toronto, Canada. I think the Canadians might be onto something here in they way they support art in their public spaces. (Or would like to)
I recently watched 2 fellow artists try and catalogue all the public art in Knoxville, TN… why you ask? Because the city has no public arts funding and had very little clue as to what they actually owned. Funny that.
Now, it would be easy to rack it up in your head and say, “Oh well, that is the south for you.” but the fact is that every metropolitan city in the state had the budget for arts but not K-Vegas. So that is just one of 50 states. How many prospective Picassos does our country lose out on because of a serious lack of arts funding in our country.
I’m not at all trying to be dour about the subject, I still have hope… or at least a bit more than Freshjive these days. I believe America can get back to greater years of scientific and artistic influence. I hope that I can see it though and not have to hear about it from my grandkids!
Nice work Toronto, good luck getting the legislation passed, we’ll be watching you on this one.
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