I’ve felt for a long time there’s a way to handle the confederate statue issue in a positive way.1) Remove the statues and store them in a museum somewhere, & 2) Have local & national contests for contemporary artists to replace them in the places where they once stood. #artheals
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as an artist I'd love to give you some feedback: making artists participate in contests is demeaning it essentially causes us to work for free without knowing if we will get hired. I understand where you are going with this, but please, just do a RFQ for artists instead
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Replying to @lmnopi_
What are you talking about? No one would be “making” an artist do anything! And they would be paid for their work, by the way.

Jun 18, 2020 · 8:58 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
How does one pay artists to enter a contest? No need to become defensive, it's a common error for people to not understand that requiring artists to enter contests in order to access creative work is actually doing them a disservice. Contests are unprofessional. RFQ's are correct
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think it through to the logical conclusion. you hold a nationwide contest. thousands of artists enter to get the gig you chose a winner the rest have labored without compensation. it's actually not that complicated
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Replying to @marwilliamson
it's weird that you chose to get defensive instead of just digesting the feedback and learning something about how artists feel about contests.