I've been inspired by US Artists, an initiative to nurture and support US artists.
"In a recent survey of attitudes toward artists in the US a vast majority of Americans, 96%, said they were greatly inspired by various kinds of art and highly value art in their lives and communities. But the data suggests a strange paradox. While Americans value art, the end product, they do not value what artists do, the act of creation. Only 27% of respondents believe that artists contribute “a lot” to the good of society."
From 2006 - 2008, USA will distribute 150 unrestricted fellowship grants of $50,000 each to artists across the United States working in Architecture and Design, Crafts and Traditional Arts, Dance, Literature (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry), Media (film, media, and radio), Music, Theater Art, and Visual Arts.
To see the 2007 Fellows and learn more, visit the USA website.
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Sort of reminds me of the attitude I seemed to see in some of the news coverage of the writer's guild strike--lots of "when are we going to get our shows back?" and not so much "writers are working under unfair terms."
Though the individuals I know seemed hugely supportive of the strike. Don't know if that's a bias of the communities I hang out in or not.
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