I really enjoyed this article about the new arts coordinator for the city. She really does have a ton of experience and is a good fit for the job. But it was this remark that made me smirk;
In her conversations locally, “there’s been a need for transparency, an understanding of how arts decisions are made at a city level, who makes them and why they’re made,” Engel said.
“I think there’s a real desire to have an understanding of how those processes happen, and that’s fair, and I have a lot of understanding of that. The last thing I want is for the arts community to not have clarity around how creative decisions are made or if there are opportunities for them.”
Maybe you need to have this conversation with your boss first before you have it with the community? Because I don’t trust anybody who censors art.
If you are a political leader on the bike trail taking selfies of yourself, but it takes three or four takes to get the right one, have you censored art? Or, is that in the eye of the beholder?