Comments on: Show Me The Money http://www.pcs.org/show-me-the-money/ This is Your Blog On Theater Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: k. crow http://www.pcs.org/show-me-the-money/#comment-3356 k. crow Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:11:48 +0000 http://www.pcs.org/blog/show-me-the-money/#comment-3356 Chris, I hope you will continue to speak on your involvement with the Creative Capacity committee. I find it to be a promising development in the national movement to play catch up with long-range planning for regional cultural infrastructure. I think such an organization is particularly important in Portland, a city often touted for its urban planning, and its qausi-socialist mores. Money matters aside, I think a particular challenge to cultural policy originates in organization. For example how can the creative class better develop as a visible and vocal constituency? Policy makers depend upon a strong, consistent voice from the creative class to make viable policy decisions. However, individuals in the arts community must dedicate so much of their resources (time, money, sanity) simply to endure as artists let alone to dedicate themselves to advocacy. In Portland, is there enough incentive from the public sector (a measly 4%!) for artists to make the necessary sacrifices in order to develop its leadership pool? Without a knowledgeable advocate base, how can artists successfully collaborate with policy makers? Chris, I hope you will continue to speak on your involvement with the Creative Capacity committee. I find it to be a promising development in the national movement to play catch up with long-range planning for regional cultural infrastructure. I think such an organization is particularly important in Portland, a city often touted for its urban planning, and its qausi-socialist mores.

Money matters aside, I think a particular challenge to cultural policy originates in organization. For example how can the creative class better develop as a visible and vocal constituency? Policy makers depend upon a strong, consistent voice from the creative class to make viable policy decisions. However, individuals in the arts community must dedicate so much of their resources (time, money, sanity) simply to endure as artists let alone to dedicate themselves to advocacy.

In Portland, is there enough incentive from the public sector (a measly 4%!) for artists to make the necessary sacrifices in order to develop its leadership pool? Without a knowledgeable advocate base, how can artists successfully collaborate with policy makers?

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