• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    What happens when you forget/never knew that publicly funded art was once a thing.

    • starkillerfish [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      it is still a thing lol, majority of the arts are still funded that way. it seems like a very US-online thing to not engage with state funding for artistic projects.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        tbh you would never know arts in America are often state funded without being one yourself because it's not enough for artists to live

        • starkillerfish [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          for sure. basically everyone I know has a """""real""""" job on the side to pay for rent, but they still use the state funds to pay for their projects.

          • GaveUp [she/her]
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            2 months ago

            yea from what my friends have told me about their grants, it pays way less than their minimum wage "real job" too...

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 months ago

        It is a very US thing. Back in the 80's Reagan started an attack on public arts budgets in the US that never stopped. As a result US public arts funding is a shdaow of what it was a few generations ago.

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        the person in the screenshot is a finn, judging by the name at least. We do have publicly funded art but they're constantly lowering the budget because right wingers hate art unless it's hitlerite in character