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The Art Village Project Book

By David SmithDavid_s_14850@yahoo.comBriefly, this is how the idea of the Art Village got started. I wascommentating on the Net on some things I had run across, remarking on thecraziness of the world in general. Specificity, I was talking about what I hadlearned about pottery, and what seemed to be some serious overcharges on someitems. I then pointed out how the different problems would then to be solved if allthe functions are combined in one organization/The guy I was writing to said, ³Great, build it!³Right, other than

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, not a problem.´ says I.³So, get a grant!´ And that stopped me cold - I had never thought of that. Opps, my bad.But understandable, I believe, as not everyone has a history of applying for grants,let alone a working knowledge of the process ± so, not foremost in the thoughts«.So I looked into it and the more I did, the better the possibility looked. Not easy,true, but possible. Lots of work, yes, but there was no law it all had to be done byone person working alone, and not all sequence, not having to be done all at once.Hummm . . .Ok, locate other people that might be interested in the Art Village. Find away to build the Art Village by dividing up the different parts of the job. Getcreative in what is needed to be done in the startup. Find a way to hand off partsof the job to other people, whittle the task down to a manageable size.Collect information. Think. Scheme. Whatever.One possible approach is to write down what you do, and perhaps get other people to do the same. Do that and you can swap notes. As there was the potential to have many µArt Villages¶, but I really onlywanted one to absorb my energies, so there was plenty of places to go around.Write down what I have got so far you do, and perhaps get other people to join in. Ok, I¶m doing that here. You feel moved to jump in, great

First project is to find a likely building.Running alongside that, in the paperwork world, would be an ongoing µgetgrants¶ team, to support the project. And possibly, a virtual Gallery or Art Villageshop function - A free url / storehttp://signup.freeservers.com/

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There has to be a natural law about this, but Iµm not quite sure what it is.Probably something like ³Free money costs too³, or whatever. The people whoaward grants have been approached by hundreds of scam artists each year, sothey have some beefy walls in place to guard that money. And what has happened? It¶s been a kind of slow motion thing. I amseeing some progress, but with just me on the job it¶s slow. I need more help. And some different viewpoints. There are a number of other files that are notincluded in this report, but are available for anyone with web access:

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Artists can use buildings that some real estate firms may overlook. Andrating Art Village buildings Some will be better than others - but how?Kiln repair Possible Art Village classes Art Village glass Art Village specialized data basesGetting grants for the Art VillageManaging Art Village donationsConsignment terms Avoiding scamsResources for donated items, like computers.Creating Artist¶s statementsSupply details for the Art Village gift shopOn Montessori schoolsVarious support files for the Art Village blog, and other support files, toonumerous to detail, are found on the blog or the web site.The current main location of the Art Village on the Web (Yahoo) is:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtVillage/

The Annex area:Group home page:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtVillageAnnex I would like to open up the possibility of your group joining me in the creationof a combination small business incubator and art colony I call the µArt Village¶.That is not the full extent of the project, but it will do for a starting point. I realizeyour group may have committed their budget for the year, but The Art Village is abit too young for money - what I feel I need most at this point is ideas, critiques andsuggestions.The statement of Art Village theme might be; "To create an supportiveenvironment for artists." The name ³Art Village¶ is a compromise, from a cointoss. It may suggest a place tourists would care to visit.Here are some notes on call the Art Village. It¶s projected to be at leastpartly housed in an unused (no longer used for teaching) µsurplus¶ school building.The lack of a surplus school building is not a problem because of the nature of the Art Village - it can be done with a number of other local buildings, of almost anytype. Surplus school buildings are nice - but not a total requirement.I feel the lack of a local art colony can be reversed to the benefit of all partiesinvolved. The plans I have would combine the day to day operations of the ArtVillage with the needs of the community. If the first building managed by the ArtVillage is a surplus school there is a better possibility of positive returns showingup sooner.I¶m picking on a school building as an example because it seems to be agood place for the Art Village to start out in. A number of the projected functions,particularly the community support functions, may be reasonably based in such abuilding. True, I cannot promise positive revenues flow for the building, but theact of putting it to use will soon reduce most of the negative effects of an empty,unused building. This use has another positive side effect, an empty, unusedbuilding µages¶ faster than a building in use. Use of the building as an Art Villagewould preserve and improve the building for other later functions.There is a positive effect to the community in getting even a small positiverevenues flow for the building. There are also the positive effects of gentrification*happening to a town that supports such a project.(*Gentrification - the process of transforming an un-prosperous neighborhood into