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Artist Spotlight #5: PAUL OUTLAW
PAUL OUTLAW is a writer, singer, actor, translator, storyteller, and performance maker who says: “When I'm working on a "solo" project, I find myself longing for the support and sense of communion that can be enjoyed in group endeavors. But when I'm involved in a collaborative process, I can get impatient...”
Artist Spotlight #4: ANTONIA PRICE
ANTONIA PRICE is a fiber and performance artist and yoga instructor based in Atwater Village, Los Angeles. She says: "The idea of the sell-out versus starving artist is lazy thinking. We are too comfortable placing ourselves on a binary that is not serving us any more."
Artist Spotlight #3: TODD BANK
TODD BANK is an ecologically-conscious artist and founder of WASTE ART.
Artist Spotlight #2: CHRISTY ROBERTS
CHRISTY ROBERTS creates "experiences, images, and objects that attempt to reconcile revolution with escapism, as a millennial living under the weight of increasingly high stakes for humanity."
Artist Spotlight #1: TARA KING
Rhizomatic Arts is proud to feature members of our Sustainability Network who are doing good in their communities through their creative and professional practice. Our very first spotlight features TARA KING, a choreographer/performer, web designer, writer, and bike advocate based in Los Angeles!
Going green: how green business models might inspire sustainable arts business practice
As a performance artist, I have deliberately structured my life work to counter notions like “profit” and “bottom line.” And yet, art is a business...
SHOULD Art be free? SHOULD Artists make money?
Artists specialize in making do with what we have, innovating new ideas from limitation, and collaborating with one another... But I maintain that we also deserve to make a living doing all of this.
A case for inter-generational support, Part 2: Exchange
Mentorship partnerships are an exchange that we should view laterally rather than vertically--building bridges or crossing borders--rather than from the mountain top down.
A case for inter-generational support, Part 1: Mentorship
Today several successful programs pair not only arts practitioners, but managers and administrators as well, in mutually supportive and generative exchanges.