From:
Walter Arnold <walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:47:59 -0500
Subject:
Cultural appropriation
At 05:25 AM 7/10/01 -0300, shockme@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Quoted text begins.Has anyone in this group ever heard such insulting nonsense?
End of quote.
While we're venting, here's one that ticked me off today. I received an
(unsolicited) e-mail soliciting professional sculptors to submit slides and
resumes, and a "detailed to-scale maquette", to a competition the privilege
of displaying large scale sculpture for six months next year in an upscale
Chicago neighborhood. Those selected will receive a cash award of $1,000,
and if you ask nicely they might even help with installation. They state
that they will be very picky, demanding the higest quality and only
accepting established professionals with a track record of installed public
sculpture.
The piece needs to take up at least a 5' x 5' space. OK, so they want us to
spend several days preparing a proposal and model, and if selected spend
several thousand dollars for materials and weeks or months carving, so that
we can decorate their neighborhood. If I needed to hire a crane and
installers that alone would cost me over $1,000.
Sorry, I know this is standard practice, but still, this kind of thing
really offends me- they always expect artists to bend over begging for the
right to work for free; our society doesn't expect that of any other group
of professionals. Can you imagine them asking doctors or accountants, or
plumbers or computer programmers, to prepare and submit an elaborate
proposal for the right to spend a month or three working for free, just for
the hope of some publicity?
- Follow-ups
- message 00052: bending over backwards to work for free - Casey Harbison (11 Jul 2001)
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