My Northwest.com--
The city of Seattle and King County's cultural service agency 4culture will receive $500,000 in federal's stimulus money. Jim Kelly, executive director of 4culture said that the money will not be spent on art projects.
"This is jobs, jobs, jobs. This is not for art projects. It's for personnel and it's for artists. It's not for producing public art," said Kelly. "They're raising money, they're producing events, they're producing theatre, they're producing visual arts exhibits. They're producing them for whom? They're producing them for the community, for people who attend these organizations' exhibits."
I would sure have loved to have been at the meeting when they decided to make a enormous old-style eraser a public art project.
What's next?
A giant sheet of carbon paper?
I wonder if they have permission from the 3M Corp. for public display of one of their products? I can just see the lawsuits now.
Yep, with more examples like this one, the recession will soon be over.
picture courtesy of my Northwest.com
1 comment:
I thought you knew, there is no money in this stimulus package for a giant sheet of carbon paper. That's why we need another stimulus package. To pay for all the things we missed in the first one. It's all about jobs. Federal, state, and local government jobs trying to figure out where to spend the money.
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