Also a doffing one’s hat emoji.

#supportartists #art #contemporaryart #😁

… only non-commercial/ critical work “counting” as “real” becomes self-reinforcing, to the exclusion of working class art (other than very fucking problematically labelling it as “outsider art”- how charming).

… that you are a worker. That what you do is work. Making things, even if it is pleasurable, counts as real work, and to believe otherwise is internalized capitalism.
Where we get hung up is in the idea that it is a privileged choice to make art at all; to the extent that the class dynamic of …

…labour of some form or other, but in most BFA programs the critical discussion can scare students away from pursuing commercial work for fear of “selling out” or diluting our criticality, as if without diligence we are all in danger of becoming Jeff Koons.
Just understand, fellow artists, …

…of perspectives and experiences we need to drop the classist bullshit gatekeeping. We need to allow for artists to both sell work that sells, doing their work, as well as making critically engaged work that may or may not have commercial potential. As it stands most of us have to hold down waged..

Hi, Beauty!