"Art and commerce collide in North Park"
By James Chute - San Diego Union Tribune - August 25, 2014
Photo Credit: Hayne Palmour IV
Excerpt featuring Art Produce:
Some artists who remain, like Susholtz, have become citizen artists, showing up at community planning meetings, and in the case of Susholtz, contributing, with Goldman, the arts and culture component of the revised North Park Community Plan.
By James Chute - San Diego Union Tribune - August 25, 2014
Photo Credit: Hayne Palmour IV
Excerpt featuring Art Produce:
Some artists who remain, like Susholtz, have become citizen artists, showing up at community planning meetings, and in the case of Susholtz, contributing, with Goldman, the arts and culture component of the revised North Park Community Plan.
“It’s not just the rent situation,” Susholtz said. “It’s that we as a group, artists, don’t just continue to do the same thing over and over and over again. That’s kind of the good news and the bad news. That’s what makes us different from your typical business person who has a typical business plan and a business model.
“I mean, there are a lot of entrepreneurs in North Park in the business industry. I’ve seen fewer in the culture ‘industry.’ It’s hard to come up with a new model and make it successful, especially if we’re in a market-based, product-based, commercial economy and people want to see art as entertainment and recreation or something that can decorate their walls.”
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“I mean, there are a lot of entrepreneurs in North Park in the business industry. I’ve seen fewer in the culture ‘industry.’ It’s hard to come up with a new model and make it successful, especially if we’re in a market-based, product-based, commercial economy and people want to see art as entertainment and recreation or something that can decorate their walls.”
Click here to read the full Union Tribune article.
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