The artists and musicians I know who get grants devote 30% of their
week at minimum just to the gruntwork of filling out applications,
writing up resumes, making demo tapes for jury viewing, and such. I
think the reason they succeed is mainly due to their tenacity and hard
work at pursuing this stuff, not because they easily conform to some
well-established medium or another. These things don't just fall into
one's lap.
Still, I do sympathize and wish things could be much better for artists
who don't fit the common categories.
m
On Mar 15, 2006, at 10:25 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
On the other hand, this allows you the freedom to do exactly what you
want, yr allegiance is not committed to one modality. I'm pretty
sure that most of the folks on this list including myself never get
grants & invites for the same reason...
~mIEKAL
On Mar 15, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
I'm too much all over the map which means I'm pretty much not
accepted in
any community - I don't get film grants, writing grants, etc. and
very few
conf. invites. I'm told I'm not a musician, poet, e-poet (thanks
Loss),
artist, filmmaker, videomaker, etc. etc. So I work on the lean side
and
try to survive. End of short rant, and thanks - Alan
