What change do you want to see in the art world? | Bleur
For this episode of Bleur’s ‘State of the Art’, they asked us what change we’d like to see in the art world. For a lot of us, it was things like opportunity and diversity. For others it was respectful pay and to be taken seriously.
For me it was a re-investment in arts education. Without this, we’ll have such a small group of people who can afford to study art - an already financially risky industry to work in. Art is for everyone, and we need to hear a wide range of peoples voices, if only a select group of people from a particular part of society makes up the art industry, then the story of society is incomplete. We need it to be full and well rounded.
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