Making art isn't always about luxury. That's an American made myth.
Recently when I was in Lebanon I spoke to 2 women who had kept dance studios open during their civil war, "because music and dance separated us from the animals. Our opportunity to express ourselves kept our spirits alive. Things would be destroyed or taken from us, but the art of dance was our own." they said.
Pioneer Square specifically may be more a clash of cultures, but it is healthy to travel and look at the history of art so that we don't write it off as a product of leisure. It is a human necessity.
@6, a 60-year-old woman was found out in the open, dead of hypothermia, on the night of the One Night Count. If you REALLY want to end homelessness, demand shelter or housing for all people out in the cold, no matter their label or the reason they became homeless.
Its the responsibility of artists to end systemic poverty?
Most of the artists I know are poor themselves. Aside from a handful of university professors, I have hardly known a single artist in the last 40 years in Seattle who had health insurance.
Chris Bruch doesnt drive a Porsche.
He observes what he sees, and makes comments on it.
And those comments seem to be worth discussing, even if they DONT end systemic poverty.
anything that brings to consciousness the burgeoning phenomena of homelessness citizens who do have a place to live....... is helping the homeless in this country.
Guess I didn't get it.
Recently when I was in Lebanon I spoke to 2 women who had kept dance studios open during their civil war, "because music and dance separated us from the animals. Our opportunity to express ourselves kept our spirits alive. Things would be destroyed or taken from us, but the art of dance was our own." they said.
Pioneer Square specifically may be more a clash of cultures, but it is healthy to travel and look at the history of art so that we don't write it off as a product of leisure. It is a human necessity.
Most of the artists I know are poor themselves. Aside from a handful of university professors, I have hardly known a single artist in the last 40 years in Seattle who had health insurance.
Chris Bruch doesnt drive a Porsche.
He observes what he sees, and makes comments on it.
And those comments seem to be worth discussing, even if they DONT end systemic poverty.