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I am disappointed by the photography that has been accompanying Slog posts lately. By lately, I mean over the past several months. Since around when Goldy got canned, I believe. Missing attributions, tone-deaf Shutterstock use on serious social justice articles and now Google StreetView images of a building twenty minutes away from your office?

Yet somehow for Strangertickets events like Bumbershoot and CHBP you always seem to have a real camera on hand... :/
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Cosa Nostra.
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Dig deeper Alpha--their fellowship program has supported a pretty broad swath of creative types in our city to my eye.
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OK, Notinthefamily(yet). I'll take your challenge. "The Artist Program. The foundation buys works by selected Seattle-based artists—so far, six of them —for museums around the United States." Well, 3 of the artists selected were represented by Scott Lawrimore, the Foundation director's husband. Oh, and not a single non-white person in that selection. A pretty broad swath of creative types? Not so much.
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The way I understand it, the Artist Progam is but one small facet of their overall mission. Did you look at the 15 artists receiving Fellowships? They don't announce whoever the visiting curators did studio visits with, but that's another couple dozen, I assume. And, we should find out how the "chosen" six were actually chosen. I heard that there were a good dozen arts professionals asked to nominate for those slots. It's not Yoko's or Scott's fault that the community identified former larimore project artists.
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@Noncosa. Fault? That's a funny word to use. This isn't an accusation only an observation. Let's examine the statement by Ott, "Connections, for one. With each other and people outside the city." Well, how many African-American or Latino/a Seattle artists are involved? If one were to dig deep, really deep one would ask how many of the artists affiliated with the New foundation are part of the Behnke's private collection. Not that is matters, it's their money and they have the right to collect as they see fit. Cosa Nostra means "our thing" and that it is.

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