Fwd: From site to community-Madeline Quint

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From: Madeline Quint <madelinequint@alum.calarts.edu>
Date: January 18, 2016 at 5:35:49 PM PST
To: eserrano2.ace2016@blogger.com
Subject: RE: Madeline Quint Week 1

Where do they find the people to collaborate with and give them money? 

How did the "people of the city" make sure these artists were producing art that wouldn't "upset" other people throughout the town if some artists could initiate and direct their own project? 

Is it necessarily a good thing to eliminate architects form public art projects? Does it put those people out of jobs? 

What about art existing in places outside of big cities? Does art get the appreciation or acknowledgment it needs to exist? Do many artists think of places to show art outside of those big cities? 

"Culture in Action" affirmed Lacy's claim that "what exists in the space between the words public and art is an unknown relationship between artist and audience, a relationship that may itself be the artwork." This quote really stood out to me because I have often felt that the art may be the relationship between two other art pieces or between two dynamics. 

I am glad to see there was a shift of art making for other artists to enjoy, experience and understand, to anyone out on the town being able to enjoy and try and understand the art. I think that is how it always should be; anyone should be able to enjoy and understand art! 

"Culture in Action" is not so much a radical turn in practice as it is a belated turn in institutional reception." 

Does art around town with Museums seem to help bring people into the museums and increase their desire to see more art? Or does art take away business from the museums if people are seeing it on the streets more; meaning they may not feel the need to pay to go see more art.

I am very glad they started to create art outside in cities for anyone to see and that many artists seemed to change their viewpoint on the relationships between the art and the audiences, or to even create those relationships if they didn't already exist. I wonder, since that is more popular nowadays, what the next big challenge artists seem to be facing with their artwork on the streets? Are they much different? Also, I hope artists continue to take chances presenting their art work that may not necessarily be a "safe" route to take. Art work that is "safe" sometimes doesn't communicate what it really needs to, and after reading this article they often mentioned the art being "safe." So I hope artists in their communities aren't always taking the safe route.