cadre: the $10 artist grant

Copy-Art.net; Fine Art Adoption Network; Service Works; InCUBATE; Orchard; Mutual Art;
The Present Group; Tiny Showcase; Center for Cultural Innovation

Foster An Environment For Mutual Benefit and Make Interdependence Visible

http://www.collectivefoundation.org/

Whew! In the better late than never category, we want to catch you up on the goings on here at cadre art. On May 3rd as promised we participated in a conversation with Ted Purves at the Yerba Buena Center, in an event called “Speaking the Art World into Existence.” We left inspired by the work of the other presenters (listed and linked above, who are working on a range of projects to create a more open source and equitable art world) - and with the challenge to make our grant more closely reflect our values and inspirations.

We started this grant out of a desire to transform our relationship to arts funding. After years of applying and receiving mostly rejections in response, we wanted to become agents in this system. We wanted to be able to fund projects that were interesting, even if the applicant had never received funds before. With this in mind, and having experienced last winter being on the other end of sending out rejections to those applicants whose projects we had no money to fund, we’re considering a move from an application process to a nomination process. This is in the offing for the Winter 07/08 grant cycle. We welcome your feedback and ideas about how we can make this happen. Nominees won’t necessarily know they’ve been nominated and thus won’t receive a rejection, and we like the initial gesture of generosity that’s required to nominate an artist for funding.

Best wishes and thanks to the Collective Foundation.

Speaking the Art World into Existence
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Thursday May 3rd, 6:30pm

cadre is thrilled to announce that we have been invited to present our manifesto as part of the
Collective Foundation exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, tomorrow, May 3rd. The event begins at 6:30pm.

Collective Foundation artists Joseph Del Pesco, Scott Oliver and Ted Purves are bringing together groups who have both “personalized and pluralized the art world.” Presenters will include collective artist groups, other alternative granting programs, publishing projects, and spaces for art criticism and dialogue, all “projects and organizations that exemplify a more democratic, DIY, people-powered art-world and employ strategies of collective contribution, crowdsourcing, and alternative or informal economies.”