Createquity.: At its core, Createquity is a research-based investigation of the most important issues in the arts and what we can do about them. That description sounds straightforward enough, but it belies a complicated dilemma: how can we decide what issues are most important? To guide us, we’ve invested quite a bit of time reflecting on what a healthy arts ecosystem looks like. This conception, and the gaps between that healthy arts ecosystem and the status quo, underlie all of our research and advocacy work.
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I completely believe that an arts education is vital for a person's emotional well being. I especially like that this article is specific about how arts should be accessible in people's lives. Art is something that should be accessible to all, but not at all levels. Everyone should be able to live a life with artistic fulfillment, but facts are facts-- an economy cannot sustain an enormous influx of professional artists. It is important for an arts community, however, to have art purveyors and appreciators on every level of the artistic stratum, in order to create artistic flow and continue to create a productive art ecosystem.
The idea of a healthy arts ecosystem is really interesting, and not something I had ever heard of or given such eloquent thought to. The first couple of paragraphs seemed to be ideas I supported, but I felt they were a little vague as far as how these principles would be practiced. But this article definitely developed these ideas as it went on, providing the definition of a healthy arts ecosystem. What I found to be the most interesting and applicable was their breakdown of common, a bit scarce, scarce, and very scarce. I think that it is important to break down the arts in this way, as it allows us to determine the basic exposure to the arts that every individual should receive. I think their idea that every human should have the opportunity to participate as an audience member at least once in all art disciplines, receive basic exposure to the arts as child in all art disciplines, and attend art classes as an adult is really wonderful. It would be awesome to see how a society would function where everyone had this much exposure to the arts available to them. This article also provides some always-needed perspective on how fortunate we are to be receiving arts educations, as it is a scarce opportunity.
This is an very novel perspective on art accessibility. I see this pseudo-quantifying approach as a source of great opportunity, but also of hyperstructuring a field that innately resists rigidity. In classifying different demographics and their "appropriate" accessibility to arts, this group disregards the transient and changing qualities of a group of people over time, a phenomenon that is amplified with different perspectives on art. It is almost too scientific an approach to disseminating art.
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