Submitted by Blog Dog on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 6:41pm.
So what does organized labour do to force the issue? They strike, What did the astronauts do? They said, "No bucks? No Buch Rogers!
Sound like a plan: No Arts Funding? No Art!
I've already reached the point where I no longer create unless there's a commission of some sort on the table - luckily when there is, I can still work furiously and intensely and my vision, voice and the work itself are all is still strong, but when I was young I couldn't be stopped; creating compulsively from pure inspiration - now I spend 90% my time authoring grant proposals and networking - I hate it - I've been turned into a busyness corps.
Knowing that I'm not alone, it breaks my heart to think of all the work that has gone unrealized because of this insidious system that's turned us all into beggars.
Anyone else out there fed up with funding institutions to which they submit proposals that include this in the proposal guidelines? "Do not submit work samples. They will not be reviewed." You couldn't design a formula for rewarding feel-good, social-massage-therapy projects which fly in on pure grantsmanship or worse, pure nepotism, if you tried...hmm, maybe it is by design.
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So what does organized labour do to force the issue? They strike, What did the astronauts do? They said, "No bucks? No Buch Rogers!
Sound like a plan: No Arts Funding? No Art!
I've already reached the point where I no longer create unless there's a commission of some sort on the table - luckily when there is, I can still work furiously and intensely and my vision, voice and the work itself are all is still strong, but when I was young I couldn't be stopped; creating compulsively from pure inspiration - now I spend 90% my time authoring grant proposals and networking - I hate it - I've been turned into a busyness corps.
Knowing that I'm not alone, it breaks my heart to think of all the work that has gone unrealized because of this insidious system that's turned us all into beggars.
Anyone else out there fed up with funding institutions to which they submit proposals that include this in the proposal guidelines? "Do not submit work samples. They will not be reviewed." You couldn't design a formula for rewarding feel-good, social-massage-therapy projects which fly in on pure grantsmanship or worse, pure nepotism, if you tried...hmm, maybe it is by design.