“Never Heard of ‘Em”

Why Daddy’s Money Should Decide Who Gets to Be an Artist

Ian David Moss

Reasons to Subsidize the Arts

1. To give us cool art that the market wouldn’t otherwise support

2. To give access to the arts to people who wouldn’t otherwise have it

Johann Sebastian Bach

Vincent Van Gogh

John Keats

Robert Johnson

Top record sold 5000 copies during his

lifetime

1990 box set has sold 1.5 million copies

Influenced Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, among

others

Reasons to Subsidize the Arts

1. To give us cool art that the market wouldn’t otherwise support

2. To give access to the arts to people who wouldn’t otherwise have it

“EXPERTS”

PatronsArtists

Commercial Marketplace Artistic Marketplace

ExpertsArtists

$

art art

respect

“EXPERTS”

CriticsArtistic Directors

Record Company Execs

Gallery Curators

Radio Station Programmers

Publishers

Booking Agents

Art Dealers

Faculty

Brad BourlandGrocery Store Clerk

Austin, TX

Has ranked the 20th

century’s greatest 9,200 movies

(and watched 7,000 of them)

PatronsArtists

Commercial Marketplace Artistic Marketplace

ExpertsArtists

$

art art

respect≠

Production Costs

DistributionCosts

StorageCosts

ExpertsArtists

Artistic Marketplace

art

respect

2008 200920072006

12.5%0%0% 0%

ExpertsArtists

Artistic Marketplace

art

respect /attention

Making a living as an

artist

Career momentum

ProfilePublic

showings of work

Materials / documen-

tation

Training / practice

Hours not spent

earning $$$

Who Gets to Be a (Professional) Artist?

ExpertsArtists

Artistic Marketplace

art

respect /attention + $$$

Audiences at the Gate: Reinventing Arts Philanthropy

Through Guided Crowdsourcing

Audiences at the Gate

Traditional Model Guided Crowdsourcing Model

Program Officers (or) Grant Panels

Philanthropic Subsidy ($$$)

Artists Artists

Philanthropic Subsidy ($$$)

Citizen Curators

ExpertsArtists

Artistic Marketplace

art

respect /attention

Reasons to Subsidize the Arts

1. To give us cool art that the market wouldn’t otherwise support

2. To give access to the arts to people who wouldn’t otherwise have it

Thank you!

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