Renee Gladman | FCA Grant Recipient
ship batches of records to our fans with handwritten thank-you postcards. The fans used my home address to order everything. They paid by personal check and we sent the CDs before the checks cleared (or didn
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
My theory: one of the biggest reasons people usually want to help an artist is because they really want … to help an artist. Not get a fancy beer cozy. If they make the decision to help, they will help at the level at which they are able, no matter what token, flower, or simple thank-you awaits them at the other end. I emailed a pal at Kickstarter
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For artists hailing mostly from poor and working-class backgrounds, the perennial, high-paying patronage promised by Americans was no less than the proverbial pot of gold.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
which the artist can freely share their talents and directly feel the reverberations of their artistic gifts to their community, and make a living doing that. In other words, it works best when everybody feels seen.