About as clear as mud; Sioux Falls Arts Council

1. i could be way off here so maybe some comments from other “non-artists” will help. I’ve seen your art at the pavillion when we go to shows there, we see almost every play they have and the galleries are open during intermissions. Also attend the SECT productions at the Orpheim and some music events. That being said, could this be another of your “must bitch about everything” rants? I’m not sure what the story was about either i guess but it didn’t seem so bad to me. I thought it was promoting exhibiting art and seemed positive. I guess they could have not done an art story at all. Sorry but there’s probably a reason why they didn’t consult you for the story.

2. I got totally lost in those mysterious Xenakis quotes, but I think it says there is going to be $50,000 dollars given away to local artists so they can spray tons of paint and glue tons of macaroni while listening to hip hop.

3. Jeff- I didn’t say the story was negative or positive, just confusing. It’s not about the Pavilion, it’s about the reformation of SEAC. Not sure what they are doing? Maybe you can fill us in?

4. I am a “non-artist” Jeff. As usual the local news reports are fallacious. The Sioux Falls Arts Council is stricken with nepotism and has a tendency to promote safe Norman Rockwell style art and tedious animal sculptures with the occasional so-called “cute” children next to little piggies reading a book. The reporting was vague, asinine , and hardly a promotion for the arts. In other words, the local media once again proves that they are amateurs. Scott is right on target.

5. @ l3wis. as i said, i wasn’t sure what it was about either but as someone who knows nothing about the arts council it didn’t seem so bad to me.

   @brom. our local news is what it is. go to any city from coast to coast (i travel a lot for work) and see how much better anyone else is. and i already tried to explain my take on the art story.

   i just think people bitch too much. here’s an analogy; most farmers are content and take the markets and weather for what they are knowing things are not ideal. a few farmers constantly bitch about the markets and weather. which kind of farmer will live longer and happier the content one or the negative one?

   now if something can be done to change the thing you’re bitching about you might do some good if you have suggestions or take action to affect change. but bitching about almost everything all the time is so much a waste of time…

6. With that in mind, Jeff, why do you continue to visit this site as the “bitching” clearly causes anger and distress?

   I’ve never understood the “quit writing/bitching/whatever” posts. If you don’t like the material, nobody’s forcing you to read it.

7. L3wis,

   What jeff is bellyaching about is how farmers are always bitching too much. What he fails to see is that the price of grain is directly affected by how much macaroni gets purchased for art projects. Perhaps this would make the farmers he meets across the country stop bitching at him.

8. scott, i have zero anger and distress today, only chuckles. i do like the discussion. just wish there were more positive commentary. even positive criticism is possible.

   i’d like to see some of the angered, distressed, bitchers run a local news outlet or arts council with all the controlling forces. they’d alienate the money sources and go broke or find out how the real world operates and cave to the point where things wouldn’t be much differant.

9. I ran an art club in SF for awhile. Ever try to herd cats? Here’s the deal, if the Pavilion didn’t receive public funds, I could care less what they did, but when they are receiving tax dollars and destructing a perfectly good org like SEAC to turn it into something no one understands, I have a right to criticize it. That is problem with our world, people sit around and say “Don’t tell the truth about things, it is too negative. Just pretend every one is on the up and up (even though they are not) and you will be more positive.”

10. i guess i could take my own advice better sometimes too. i always try to remember to see things from other perspectives. i prolly understood your story on the story about as well as i understood the story.

    of course you have the right to criticize but often to me you’re over the top or unwarranted because imo you fail to see things from multiple perspectives.

    also, i don’t believe anyone should “just pretend” or not face the truth.

    do you think those involved in the seac believe they are doing the correct things? could they use your input or has that bridge been burned?

11. They wouldn’t ask, because they know what I would tell them. The SEAC helped provide an artistic outlet to people who couldn’t afford the Pavilion. The newly formed SFAC needs to do the same, but they won’t because now they are a part of the Pavilion.

12. What if only the biggest well connected farmers got a bunch of government subsidies handed out to them and were quite content about it, while the small farmers didn’t get anything. Pretty soon maybe, brilliant people everywhere would be using that as an analogy, right?

13. I just shake my head when I think about how many people (including myself) were duped by the Pavilion.

14. I literally just saw this post…7 years later.

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