{"id":1596,"date":"2010-02-25T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/02\/juan_alonso_-_who_benefits\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:55:11","slug":"juan_alonso_-_who_benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/juan_alonso_-_who_benefits.html","title":{"rendered":"Juan Alonso &#8211; who benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/hefty-dale-chihuly-grant.html\">post<\/a> about Dale and Leslie Chihuly giving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisttrust.org\/\">Artist Trust<\/a> $150,000 for two $25,000 grants to Washington State artists in any discipline annually for three years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juanalonso.info\/currentwork1.htm\">Juan Alonso<\/a> observed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know whenever I say anything regarding auctions I get a lot of folks who misunderstand my point. To be clear, I am a huge fan of Artist Trust, in fact, I am currently trying to create a scholarship fund for one of their programs, so do don&#8217;t get your undies in a bunch about this. It&#8217;s just an opinion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So here goes: When I was on the PONCHO art acquisition committee, one of my suggestions was that all the proceeds from the visual art auction go to visual art organizations and that the other disciplines should do their own &#8220;donating for fundraisers&#8221; but my idea did not fly. As a visual artist, I would love to afford to go to the opera and the ballet and the symphony and I do want them all to thrive but I have little access to any of them. Any ballet dancer, opera singer of symphony musician can go to any gallery and some museums (at least on certain days) for free yet I don&#8217;t see any of these organizations (Ballet, Opera, Symphony, etc), individually or collectively, doing anything to benefit the visual arts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The boundaries between disciplines are porous, and artists work freely across them. The essential thing about artists is that they <i>are<\/i> artists. Artist Trust embraces and supports all equally. But visual artists are most likely to create a product that can be sold. For that reason, they are the ones who support all others through the Artist Trust auction. <\/p>\n<p>Hence, Alonso&#8217;s excellent point. It&#8217;s worth noting, however, that Leslie Chihuly is head of the Seattle Symphony&#8217;s board of directors. She is more likely to favor an all disciplines approach. A cynical version of the Golden Rule (S\/he who makes the gold makes the rules) isn&#8217;t always true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a post about Dale and Leslie Chihuly giving Artist Trust $150,000 for two $25,000 grants to Washington State artists in any discipline annually for three years, Juan Alonso observed: I know whenever I say anything regarding auctions I get a lot of folks who misunderstand my point. To be clear, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}