{"id":536,"date":"2010-10-12T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=536"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T18:34:01","slug":"duuuude_wheres_my_funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/10\/duuuude_wheres_my_funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Duuuude, where’s my funding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times<\/a>, <\/i>via my friend Megan:<\/p>\n

\n

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — …the foundation, called Life Is Art, recently began to
\nreap a new kind of financing, in the form of tall, happy-looking marijuana<\/a>
\nplants. Late this month, with some help from the sale of its first
\nsmall crop, grown under California’s liberal medical marijuana laws,
\nthe group plans to present an inaugural exhibition on its land, of
\nsculpture and installation work by more than 20 visiting artists — some
\nof whom will have helped bring in the harvest. The foundation’s hope is
\nthat income from succeeding crops will fully support such projects, in
\nperpetuity, creating a kind of Marfa-meets-ganja art retreat north of
\nSan Francisco and a new economic engine for art philanthropy. <\/p>\n

At a going wholesale rate of $200 or more an ounce in the Bay Area for
\nsuperior quality<\/a> medical marijuana, it’s a lot simpler than raising money
\nthe traditional way, the project’s organizers point out. And — except
\nfor the nagging fact that selling marijuana remains a crime under
\nfederal law — it even feels more honest to the people behind Life Is
\nArt. They see it as a way of supporting the cause with physical labor
\nand the fruits of the land instead of the wheedling of donors, an
\nespecially appealing prospect in an economy where raising money has
\nbecome more difficult than ever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is the best part:<\/p>\n

“The whole game of finding support just started to seem so childish,”
\nsaid Kirsha Kaechele, the foundation’s director, as she hauled a
\nplastic tub of freshly harvested cannabis hybrid branches up a hill one
\nmorning recently on her rolling land just outside of Santa Rosa. “So I
\ndecided to grow up and became a marijuana farmer.”<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, ahem, this:<\/p>\n

They are loath to provide details about how much marijuana they hope to
\nproduce with the first harvest — plant limits vary from county to
\ncounty, and they worry about how the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office,
\nwhich made an unannounced visit by helicopter in September, interprets
\nthe limits there. But their goal for next year’s crop is to generate $1
\nmillion after expenses to be used for art projects on the farm and to
\nsend back to support their programs in New Orleans, which they hope
\nwill ultimately be financed entirely by the farm.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One million dollars!! I have a little porch on which I’m currently killing basil, tomatoes, and a Black-Eyed Susan plant. To think I could be using that space to commit a federal crime and commission art! <\/p>\n

\"MyPorch.jpg\"Good thing I’m better at classical music publicity than I am at horticulture. <\/p>\n

\"MyTomatoPlant.jpg\"These prize tomatoes probably aren’t going to fund anything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times, via my friend Megan: SANTA ROSA, Calif. — …the foundation, called Life Is Art, recently began to reap a new kind of financing, in the form of tall, happy-looking marijuana plants. Late this month, with some help from the sale of its first small crop, grown under California’s liberal medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}