Comments on: The Color of Yellow http://www.arounddesmoines.com/the-color-of-yellow/ Blogging Des Moines Iowa Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:52:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Link Round-Up, August 24 http://www.arounddesmoines.com/the-color-of-yellow/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Link Round-Up, August 24 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:07:37 +0000 http://www.arounddesmoines.com/the-color-of-yellow/#comment-235 [...] Field at Around Des Moines is noticing the significance of the color yellow [...] [...] Field at Around Des Moines is noticing the significance of the color yellow [...]

]]> By: M.R. Field http://www.arounddesmoines.com/the-color-of-yellow/comment-page-1/#comment-231 M.R. Field Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:22:12 +0000 http://www.arounddesmoines.com/the-color-of-yellow/#comment-231 <p>Here are some questions to start people thinking about cultural affairs priorities:</p> <p>Do we want the priority to be funding for large enterprises, such as the Civic Center, Wells Fargo Arena, and the Art Center?</p> <p>Do we want resources to bring arts to the elementary and middle schools? What about introducing adults to the arts, both hands-on and lectures?</p> <p>Are there specific projects based on a specific medium that should be given attention? For example, giving tax breaks to film production companies was an agenda item for 2007. </p> <p>Personally, I would like to see more money go towards publicity of and writing about the arts, but that's just to help my livelihood. Another subject would be how to merge art and commercial production. This has been a problem I've encountered with my seasonal photography. It is not considered art since I don't process pictures with my own hands. Yet, it is not a mass-produced commercial product that I can easily sell to every Wal-Mart in the country.</p> <p>I don't want to be the poor, starving artist but neither do I want to be the businesswoman who mass produces products in China for selling at high-end stores in America. We need to strike a balance, which would help attract artistic people to Iowa and would help grow the state's economy.</p> Here are some questions to start people thinking about cultural affairs priorities:

Do we want the priority to be funding for large enterprises, such as the Civic Center, Wells Fargo Arena, and the Art Center?

Do we want resources to bring arts to the elementary and middle schools? What about introducing adults to the arts, both hands-on and lectures?

Are there specific projects based on a specific medium that should be given attention? For example, giving tax breaks to film production companies was an agenda item for 2007.

Personally, I would like to see more money go towards publicity of and writing about the arts, but that’s just to help my livelihood. Another subject would be how to merge art and commercial production. This has been a problem I’ve encountered with my seasonal photography. It is not considered art since I don’t process pictures with my own hands. Yet, it is not a mass-produced commercial product that I can easily sell to every Wal-Mart in the country.

I don’t want to be the poor, starving artist but neither do I want to be the businesswoman who mass produces products in China for selling at high-end stores in America. We need to strike a balance, which would help attract artistic people to Iowa and would help grow the state’s economy.

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