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Re: 1. How much do you think an artist needs to live on?
Posted:
Jul 26, 2005 9:28 AM
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> > Ray - I saw something in the city pages maybe?
> About
> > that Sears building. Didn't get a chance to read
> it,
> > but it said something about something going ahead
> > with it. Anyone know?
> >
> > I'd love to get my hands on that building, or at
> > least get a peice of it  Is there more info on
> it
> > somewhere.
> >
> > Oh, and I think I finally got a job in Mpls
>
> Don't give up so easily. Search for the published
> description of the Ryan proposal and take note that
> "artists" housing is in the picture. Also note that
> the Hispan, Somali and other non- white communities
> are being "alotted" "market venues" that should
> provide a neat safe place for the outer ring
> commuters to "lunch" and "shop" in a unique"color"
> setting( a sanitized ghetto). You could offer to
> organize a "stall" based Artisty "farmers" market to
> go along with "artists" housing. Ray; it would be a
> good idea for the Soap factory to think ahead to the
> day they are expelled from the "caverns" to make way
> for more "artsy style" living( starting only at
> $200,000.00 range). They would funding for the
> administration of such a venue given thier track
> record of success. It will be very hard for them to
> continue the good work without a building-they are
> setting on "gold" and can expect to have it yanked
> right out from under them any moment some developer
> can get himself cheap money( it has never been
> cheaper) favorable zoning( RT endorses
> re-urbanization) and a will market-( the retirees
> with the mullah are the revenue base for growing
> theater Art scene. They should plan to relocate.
>
> On a serious note here; it would be ideal to
> influence the way the plan goes. The politics were
> always about money. Allina gets "corporate welfare"
> to turn the "tower" into a beachhead for the
> "re-urbanization"(read white home owners over renters
> of color) of the Lake Street Barrio/Ghetto. White
> artists could do very well with the powers that be by
> setting up a year round "Artists Market". It would
> be a net gain to the promotion of the area to have
> "art" for sale right there!
> Things to note: the Calhoun Square has been sold.
> The new managers will want to look at "marketing"
> concepts- a huge draw for the area is the annual Art
> Fair. As the surrounding communities are emptied of
> African Americans with their "reduced" earning power
> new "urban pioneers" will be able to wrestle the
> $250,00.00 homes away from the current occupants and
> harvest the "growth" on property values as the area
> becomes gentrified. Remember, it is "gentrified
> people" that buy art. Not people of color and
> poverty.
>
> Call the public relations person at Ryan and pitch
> the idea of a "Artists Market Place". As art space
> disappears in Saint Paul and in the warehouse
> district Artists will need a "place" to meet the "art
> crawlers".
>
> Buy me coffee and I will give the rest of the plan I
> had developed for the space if the "money" had not
> won.
>
> coyote 256
> chicano artist
> minnesota mediocre art movement
Ray you need to go to Intermedia Arts and get in on the Art in the Sears building. They will conrtrol what goes in there.
Disavow me; IM hates the Coyote.
Jaime
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