The Minneapolis arts community contributes a significant amount to the spirit and economic success of this city. I would be willing to wager a few dollars that theater (of many different disciplines), art gallery's, music, provides more economic dollars into the city of Minneapolis every year than professional sports.
The arts community brings people to downtown, uptown, north, northeast, south, southeast to every community in this city. The majority of those performers and artist live make a meager living. The arts contributes so much to the spirit of our community and unfortunately does not receive the same support professional sports does from our leaders. The Star Tribune article about Kevin Garnett yesterday had a quote from him (paraphrase) "I am not paid enough". Of coarse this is from an athlete making 28 million dollars a year. Most performers would be happy to make middle-income wages to entertain and uplift our community. The selfless arts community should not take a back seat to the selfish professional sports community.
Ken Bradley Corcoran
Many Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark Wilde wrote:
> Here in Northeast we are looking at the arts as a
> driver for economic development, not a by-product. A
> multicultural festival would be great, but don't
> mistake it for anything of substance.
>
> Mark Wilde
> Windom Park
>
As a resident of ne, I'm not forcing the arts to be anything other than what
the arts are, fun, bizarre, liberating, beauty, healing, senseless, and
irreverent. To throw a leash on it is counter productive. We should want it
for more than economic reasons. How art changes us is why we do it and value
it.
Trust me the arts will only continue to grow here in ne, and inmho, a
multicultural festival is anything but insubstantial.
I think about how much is missed by the mainstream generation of all ages,
that chronically play it safe when it comes to the arts, or integrating the
arts in their lives. Or integrating arts into meaningful political change.
And because arts are held within cultures how could one be of substance and
the other not. Because I took the losing side on highway 55, I experienced
the whole range of a deliberate life and artful resistance to pow wows and
ceremonies. More art in sixteen months of occupation than sixteen years of
post school-life education.
Robert Yorga
St. Anthony West
"Why do you believe the letters and arts superior to the pursuits of the bow
and arrow?
Do they more truly fulfill the ambitions of the human heart, according to the
measure of light and knowledge, which determine the actual conditions of the
different races of men."
Chief Aupaumut, Mohican, c. 1725
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