[06:33] Geen subsidie: kunstorganisaties vrezen kaalslag in Groningen. 'Ik vind het schrijnend en onbegrijpelijk'

Culturele organisaties zoals Kunstbende, Aurora Festival, Poëziepaleis en anderen vrezen voor hun voortbestaan nu ze van de gemeente Groningen geen subsidie krijgen voor de komende vier jaar. „Het ziet er heel slecht uit.”

https://www.dvhn.nl/groningen/stad/Geen-subsidie-kunstorganisaties-vrezen-kaalslag-in-Groningen-29269845.html

#Kunstbende #AuroraFestival #Poëziepaleis #gemeenteGroningen #vierjaar #Hetzieterheel

Geen subsidie: kunstorganisaties vrezen kaalslag in Groningen. 'Ik vind het schrijnend en onbegrijpelijk'

Culturele organisaties zoals Kunstbende, Aurora Festival, Poëziepaleis en anderen vrezen voor hun voortbestaan nu ze van de gemeente Groningen geen subsidie krijgen voor de komende vier jaar. „Het ziet er heel slecht uit.”

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@welshpixie it also reminds me of that time I won a box of #Talens Panda oil pastels at the #Kunstbende art competition when I was a teenager.
When I came home and checked them out, I discovered it wasn't a set of different colours, no, it was a box full of the same shade of sea-green. xD

I got so disappointed, I don't think I've ever even tried using one of them. ;)

@zatnosk Roehrs & Boetsch seems to already be experimenting with this

I think it's definitely something that could work, especially with curated exhibitions around a certain theme, though perhaps they might struggle with getting people to visit a gallery of works that won't look that different in the gallery compared to on their own screens.

Presenting new, previously unpublished, works on local artists might help make it work as a concept.

As a teenager I certainly enjoyed the experience of seeing a print of one of my digital paintings in an actual artgallery, even though it was just among other participants in the #Kunstbende youth art competition.

Not just that print was on display, but also the #GFXZone Flash app I contributed to the "Digital Media" part of the competition, which actually displayed some of my other digital drawings, along with some of my poems if memory serves me well, was accessible from a computer in kiosk mode.

GALLERY

The core focus of Gallery Roehrs & Boetsch, founded in January 2016, is contemporary art. The emphasis is on fluid crossovers and transitions, both within the various disciplines (e.g. design, new media, painting, performance, photography, sculpture) as well as in relation to other areas of...

And the final #dailyPhoto submissions as taken from my #NostalgiaBox:

and it wasn't just #drawing / #digitalPainting; that same #Kunstbende edition I participated in 3 different categories:
#poetry (with my poem #SilverRain, if memory serves me well)
#expo (in which #TurkeyPower was submitted)
• and some kind of then-new #digitalMedia category, to which I submitted some kind of interactive image viewer in #MacroMedia Flash.

The only #originalContent creation I do now (and rarely) is #coding, and the occasional creative toot.

#personal

Sorry that I had to delete & repost it, again, because I noticed a glaring typo... The #Kunstbende competition I participated in was in 2002, not 2012.
I guess my subconscious doesn't want to feel old by accepting it's already almost 2 decades ago. 🤔😕

Anyway, about 2½ years later, I took the afore-tooted #art competition image, #TurkeyPower, and played around with it some more as I explored the then-new beta of #PaintShopPro 9:
https://mastodon.social/media/bJwL6Ig2lmXKWtQNevA

I kinda miss how creative I was back then…

Now that #Thanksgiving aka #TurkeyDay has passed, let's have a wake to commemorate the #turkeys that filled people's stomachs 😏: https://mastodon.social/media/_1b22M1IAS2h2-anQWg

I made this #digitalPainting, #TurkeyPower: The Wake, back in #2002 to participate in #Kunstbende, a #Dutch crossmedia #art competition for youth aged 12–18 years.

I was awarded a third place in the regional preliminary of the province #NoordHolland, and it was on display during the national finale in #Utrecht.

#artwork #digitalArt #turkey