ART SHARE LA GOT ARTISTS PAID TO PAINT THE TOWN
Recap video and music by @jamsus
When the City of LA locked down indefinitely on a Friday the 13th in March for COVID-19 quarantine, many artists and business owners found themselves out of work.
Art Share LA utilized its extensive network and decades-long history for creative initiatives to connect them, launching Let’s Paint the Town, a quarantine mural project and fundraiser hiring muralists of various career levels to beautify boarded up buildings. These temporal works across the city got artists paid as studies were released stating that as many as 42% of jobs will never come back. By June 2020, over 50 murals were painted by 20 artists stretching from DTLA to Studio City. The project was created and curated alongside muralist Jeremy Novy.
Through "Let's Paint" and other programs, Art Share LA continues its mission to make art – and artists – essential.
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articles to link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/california-reopen-coronavirus.html
https://laist.com/2020/04/02/14_arts_and_film_events_happening_online_this_weekendish.php
https://www.laweekly.com/art-share-l-a-launches-home-share-daily-arts-prompts-and-programs/
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/art-space-la-arts-district/
https://abc11.com/covid-19-los-angeles-art-installation/6149320/
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April 26th, 40+ days into the Quarantine, Artists are back to work showing that they are ESSENTIAL to the health and safety of our communities. Businesses are boarded up and LAPD has expressed concern for community safety. Art Share is proud to be part of this movement to raise money to put our artists back to work.
If this is our “new normal”, then we need to figure out how to create art and pay artists. Artists can’t keep producing and sharing for FREE. – Cheyanne Sauter, Executive Director, Art Share
Chances are you have joined a live-streamed morning workout, a home concert, or a virtual tour of a gallery. Art and creativity are seeping out of our society. Artists are keeping us sane through this quarantine — All for FREE! It’s time to pay artists to get back to work! 70% of Art Share residents will not be able to pay their May rent. Many of them are full-time artists depending on the gig-economy to support them and they do not know how they will repay their debts. Art Share is committed to paying artists for their work.
We need your help to prove that ARTISTS ARE ESSENTIAL.
To date, Art Share has produced murals on boarded up windows with the following artists, with more on the list to be hired for the next round:
Amy Smith • Jeremy Novy • David Puck • Little Ricky • Morley
Kar-Part • Wrdsmth • Corie Mattie • Sara Sandoval • Bunnie Reiss
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Art Share L.A. is a nonprofit organization that supports Los Angeles-based artists by providing a creative environment for them to live, work, develop, perform, and exhibit. We create a cycle of connection between creator and audience that provides meaning and value to both. We maintain a 28,000-sq. ft. warehouse in the heart of the downtown LA Arts District. Upstairs, we provide 30 subsidized live/work lofts for artists. Downstairs, we have an open community facility offering workshops, exhibitions, and space for events.
Click here to see more of Art Share’s projects and the breadth of their contributions to Los Angeles’ art scene for decades.
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Stay creative at http://artsharela.org/paintthetown See all of the murals on Instagram @letspaintthetownla: http://instagram.com/letspaintthetownla Recap video and music by @jamsus: http://instagram.com/jamsus Creative production and archival work by Think Tank Gallery director Jacob Patterson * https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI_WP_202059.pdf
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