In Memphis as in other places, artists struggle daily with a multitude of issues, from securing affordable housing, to raising capital, to just having a space to showcase their work. Add the factor of race to the equation, especially in an unequal city, and you hit even more roadblocks. This is the case for all artists of color, and in Memphis, for black artists in particular.
Over the last decade, Artspace Consulting has worked with many clients – arts organizations, arts councils, foundations, government agencies, and, occasionally, individuals – all of them seeking to tap into our unique experience and skills.
But what are those skills? What do we know, and what are the things we’re good at?
Now comfortably expanded after a $4 million renovation in 2014, Dance Place remains unchanged: It is still the heart of the region’s dance life, as it has been for 35 years.
Artspace Projects is pleased to announce that it has purchased the former Bell School Campus and its buildings in Tremé from the Orleans Parish School Board. A groundbreaking celebration for the Bell Artspace Campus is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, with construction on the first units to be completed in early 2017.
As Chicago nears the first anniversary of Pullman's designation as the city's first national monument, officials say restoration plans will start picking up speed soon.
Additional fourth-quarter grants included $100,000 to Artspace Projects to develop affordable live/work artist housing and community space for the arts in Hastings, Minnesota.
A New Definition of Workforce
When the subject of workforce housing is invoked in any discussion, we tend to think of police officers, fire- fighters, teachers and other municipal employees. But there is a national nonprofit organization with an everexpanding footprint and sphere of influence that is enlarging that definition to another cohort its leaders consider critical to a healthy and complete urban environment: artists.
The Pullman neighborhood on the city's far South Side is one of those uniquely Chicago neighborhoods. It's the nation's first industrial planned community, it's an area that helped breathe life into the American labor movement, and an area that helped usher in the era of civil rights.
Heart Of The Turtle in downtown Minot is more than a retail art gallery of Native American art. It's also a resource center for Native American artists.
