Have Art, Give Art; Need Art, Take Art
We live in an age of pre-fabricated art for sale at your local Wal-mart and Target on clearance this week only. Machine made, socially inoffensive paintings and prints on canvas and bordered by frames aesthetically chosen by a committee of market experts. Art galleries are intimidating and even café art shows feature prices that exclude purchasing by students and are more than a young professional can “splurge.”
Meanwhile, there are many part-time artists and talented and inspired students in our area with paintings that sit in closets and boxes and wooden chests because the artist is finished with that work and has no place to hang it and hasn’t been able to sell it or find it a home.
Have Art, Give Art; Need Art, Take Art is an event designed to fill that gap in communication and blank apartment walls in and around the City of Ithaca. HAGA NATA (Have Art Give Art Need Art Take Art is an unwieldy name for everyday use) is a one-day Event (August 29, to be precise) hosted by spilled, Inc to take place on the Commons (amphitheatre).
Any and all artists are welcome to bring art at any time from 10am to 4pm to the center pavilion and Give Art. Art will be displayed until someone would like to Take Art. No applications or reviews or sending samples, no hanging dates or red dots or pick up after the show is dismantled. Just bring Art, see Art, want Art, take Art, enjoy Art.
All donations will fund the spilled Inc Fall Event: a premiere production of Cupcakes for Jean Paul Sartre a play by local writer Carolyn Holmes.
Event Title: HAGA NATA (Have Art, Give Art; Need Art, Take Art)
Event Date: August 29, 2009; 10am – 4pm
Event Location: Amphitheatre, Ithaca Commons
