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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Well because my title is artist I demand $15,000 dollars from the government to support my career choice.
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You are more than welcome to apply for a grant.
It's not quite as easy as just declaring yourself an artist though. You'll have to produce something and go through, as I understand it, quite the rigmarole and someone (some artsy-fartsy types no doubt) will have to determine if what you are producing is good enough for government funding.
An old friend of mine has something of an international reputation (in certain small circles) as a visual artist. He's shown his work all over the world, won awards, taught and spoke at several Universities and at ACAD. Half his time is spent filling out forms for grants and he probably never "made" more than 30 grand a year, and a lot of that goes to materials. The art he makes is very hard (if not impossible) to sell but people do see value in it. I think it's pretty cool myself.
The value of it is pretty hard to quantify but if it comes to dollars and cents he does, just by doing what he's doing and being where he's from, provide Alberta with some amount of recognition. And he makes this province a better place to live in just by producing interesting stuff for Albertans to see.