“Group Material started as twelve young artist who wanted to develop an independent group that could organize, exhibit and promote an art of social change.”
This is what I’m shooting for. I want and need a community of artist. I thought about making an art center of sorts, one that could be ran by artists, that could give artistic lesson, have exhibitions, and hold activist organization meetings, and other events as well. I feel as though if I worked for a place like this I could live a meaningful and eventful life.
The main problem a came across was location, not that I could not find one in the city that I live in that could capture the attention of the residents here but the problem was the city itself. There are not enough people that see the importance of the arts so that an establishment of this sort could survive. The only groupings of artist out here are that of street artist and they are few, young and scared of what is called “fine arts”. This realization was disappointing and is one of the reasons why I need to leave.
This kind of establishment might be possible in an area like this but it would take years. First the city would have to develop more, and more things would have to happen so that the city could incubate a group of people like this. Then finding and gathering them and picking out a few that could help in the development. The next step would be in finding ways of financing something like this, which I have no idea how to do besides small art fairs, art lessons and other events but it I don’t think that alone could fund it.
I also worry that trying to make this happen would eventually take all my attention and I would eventually forget about my own art.
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