{"id":13657,"date":"2019-02-16T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:53:53","slug":"making-a-living-as-an-artists-is-kinda-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2019\/02\/16\/making-a-living-as-an-artists-is-kinda-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a living as an artist is challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Why Artists are Struggling to Make a Living From Their Art (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/frieze.com\/article\/why-artists-are-struggling-make-living-their-art-and-activists-fighting-back\" target=\"_blank\">Why Artists are Struggling to Make a Living From Their Art<\/a> (and the Activists Fighting Back)  By Chris Sharratt  07 FEB 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent studies highlight deep precarity in the art world, alongside a renewed push for fairer payment and resistance to \u2018self-exploitation\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Artists whose work gets featured in international exhibitions are still struggling to make a living from their art. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tai_Shani\/status\/1089576140526813184\">Tai Shani<\/a> an artist is just one example of situation facing artists today.<\/li><li>A survey was conducted by Arts Council England in which more than 2000 visual artists responded. Artist&#8217;s average income: $27,500 Cdn of which only $10,280  Cdn came from their art practice. Two-thirds earn less than $8,500 Cdn from their practice and only 5% earn more than $42,700 Cdn.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u2018We need to see a radical overhaul of the current funding system which is exclusive, elitist and relies heavily on the exploitation and unpaid labour of artists across the sector.\u2019 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Artists are Struggling to Make a Living From Their Art (and the Activists Fighting Back) By Chris Sharratt 07 FEB 2019 Recent studies highlight deep precarity in the art world, alongside a renewed push for fairer payment and resistance to \u2018self-exploitation\u2019 Artists whose work gets featured in international exhibitions are still struggling to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2019\/02\/16\/making-a-living-as-an-artists-is-kinda-impossible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making a living as an artist is challenging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13664,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions\/13664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}