{"id":1675,"date":"2010-03-31T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/03\/_high_artistic_standard\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:11:38","slug":"_high_artistic_standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/03\/_high_artistic_standard.html","title":{"rendered":"Bungling at Washington State Arts Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/03\/what-is-art-the-lawsuit-versio-1.html\">this court case<\/a>&nbsp; on its attempt to redefine the standards by which artists are included in its rosters, the Washington State Arts Commission emailed me a list of its current standards:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>High artistic standard<br \/>\n\u00b7         Conceptually enduring<br \/>\n\u00b7         High technical standard<br \/>\n\u00b7         Cohesive body of work<br \/>\n\u00b7         Ability to work at scale appropriate to public art<br \/>\n\u00b7         Demonstrates experience<br \/>\n\u00b7         Site and\/or context responsive<br \/>\n\u00b7         Potential or ability to work in media appropriate for public art<br \/>\n\u00b7         Good image quality<br \/>\n\u00b7         Current work, 1995 to present<br \/>\n\u00b7         Potential to successfully create a commissioned artwork with a minimum budget of $25,000<br \/>\n\u00b7         Not commercial<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As long as they apply to new candidates instead of being retroactively applied to artists accepted under different rules, these criteria sound reasonable until the last item. Not commercial. Not commercial? If the commission is going to avoid losing future lawsuits, it&#8217;s going to have to define its terms more precisely. I think the phrase intends to exclude whoever designed the Nike swoop or MacDonald&#8217;s golden arches, but the result is to bar anybody who sells work in galleries or out of a studio. <\/p>\n<p>Even if the commission better articulates its reasoning, however, that reasoning is hopelessly out of date. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.championdontstop.com\/site\/gm\/gm.html\">Geoff McFetridge<\/a>. He is one of many artists who&#8217;ve helped close the gap between business and art. He&#8217;s not only a designer for Nike, Pepsi, St\u00fcssy, Burton Snowboards, Girl Skateboards and Patagonia, he created film title sequences for <i>The Virgin Suicides<\/i> and<br \/>\n<i>Adaptation<\/i>. The Washington State Arts Commission would be lucky to have him, but according to its rules, he&#8217;d be barred from applying.<\/p>\n<p><i>Geoff McFetridge, detail of mural at Olympic Sculpture Park, image via Damion Hayes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"geoffmcfetridgepark.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/geoffmcfetridgepark.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing this court case&nbsp; on its attempt to redefine the standards by which artists are included in its rosters, the Washington State Arts Commission emailed me a list of its current standards: High artistic standard \u00b7 Conceptually enduring \u00b7 High technical standard \u00b7 Cohesive body of work \u00b7 Ability to work at scale appropriate [&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-1675","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\/1675","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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}