{"id":1210,"date":"2010-07-16T05:57:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T05:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2010-07-16T05:57:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T05:57:23","slug":"arts-funding-in-a-web-2-0-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2010\/07\/16\/arts-funding-in-a-web-2-0-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Funding in a Web 2.0 World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to agree with JG Ballard when he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/29\/a-dependent-client-class\/\">The funds disbursed by the Arts Council over the decades have created a\u00a0dependent\u00a0client class of poets, novelists and weekend publishers whose chief mission in life is to get their grants renewed&#8230;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trouble is the alternatives to pursuing public funding are so damned hard. \u00a0They traditionally rely on someone liking your art enough (or\u00a0believing\u00a0it to be a decent investment proposition), to\u00a0want\u00a0to actually buy it at a price that does not lose the artist money and that values their time and skill reasonably.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we set up a site where artists could pitch their projects at the &#8216;drawing board&#8217; stage, including the budget necessary to create the work, and then donations were crowd sourced from the web?<\/p>\n<p>It could look a bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/projectsite.unitedstatesartists.org\/learn_more\">this from the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does such a platform exist here in the UK?<\/li>\n<li>Could it?<\/li>\n<li>Should it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/10\/olympic-gold-it-all-starts-with-a-dream\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/how-should-we-recognise-a-successful-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/inward-investment-a-dummies-guide\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to agree with JG Ballard when he said: The funds disbursed by the Arts Council over the decades have created a\u00a0dependent\u00a0client class of poets, novelists and weekend publishers whose chief mission in life is to get their grants renewed&#8230;. The trouble is the alternatives to pursuing public funding are so damned hard. \u00a0They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[21,65,69,73,110,141,196,200],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-enterprise","category-entrepreneurship","tag-barriers-to-enterprise","tag-enterprise","tag-enterprise-journeys","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-inspiration","tag-operations","tag-start-up","tag-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}