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DESCRIPTION:Often legitimized by its relationship to elite institutions of higher 
 education, a work of art in the United States today is a product of the 
 classroom, the loan repayment, the lecture-hall, and the homework 
 assignment. But before the 1950s, becoming an artist had nothing to do with 
 a BFA or an MFA. As Mark McGurl points out in The Program Era, what is 
 novel about our time is not that it's hard to make a living as an artist 
 (that has always been the case), but that so many young people go to 
 school, and often to expensive art schools, to try to become 
 artists.\n\nWhat are the implications of debt, rent, and precarity on 
 culture in the 21st century? This talk presents recent findings about the 
 poverty rates, rent burdens, and actual occupations of artists by 
 BFAMFAPhD, as well as the power of solidarity art economy institutions to 
 reproduce artists and art works that embody principles of cooperation and 
 justice. Outlining the contradictory ways in which artists navigate 
 solidarity economies within capitalism, the talk is an encounter with 
 mutual aid networks, open source software, and community land 
 trusts.\n\nCaroline Woolard graduated from the only tuition-free art school 
 in the United States with a strong commitment to the solidarity economy 
 movement and to conceptual art. After co-founding and co-directing resource 
 sharing networks OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop for the past five years, 
 Woolard is focused on BFAMFAPhD.com to raise awareness about the impact of 
 rent, debt, and precarity on culture and on New York City To Be Determined 
 to create and support truly affordable, community land trusts for cultural 
 resilience in New York City.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/12/18766808.php
SUMMARY:ATC: Caroline Woolard, What is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Degrees
LOCATION:David Brower Center\n2150 Allston Way\nBerkeley, CA 
 94704\n510-809-0900\nhttp://www.browercenter.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/12/18766808.php
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