Brodbeck and the Arts

grumpy old man wrote:Bafflegab, I believe, is what that is called...

Well you see Tom, the existence of man precedes his essence. By which we mean that there is no certainty as to the commonality of humans, or "human nature" as it is often referred. Unlike an invention such as say, a paper-cutter, man is not first conceived and then produced but rather, we come into existence and then must we discover and decide for ourselves what we shall be and what our values should be. There are no values but those upon which we decide, and we only place value on a given idea through action. There is a great responsibility in all of this because when choosing our own values, we are also making a statement to the world of what it is that we believe all should value. By choosing the action of supporting the arts, and more specifically the local arts, one is asserting value to the citizens of Winnipeg, as it is they who shall reap the harvest sown by the artists. Artists do not create for their own sake alone.

See what our generous funding begets???

grumpy old man wrote:It is true that many factors contribute to define a place. Winnipeg simply would not be the Winnipeg we know and love today without the
contribution of the art's community. That said so too has the Winnipeg
professional and amateur sport's community contributed to making
Winnipeg Winnipeg.

grumpy old man wrote:If we had not invested in similar
ventures 50 years ago we might not look so fondly on today's Winnipeg.

rosencrentz wrote:My daughter runs an art gallery , Gallery 803, which is aimed at showing local Winnipeg artists. She sent me her comments for my information, and since I haven't done any posting today, I was trying to see if I could skip a day, I thought that an artists' side would be interesting!
It is easy to criticize and very easy to pick on artists. What do we know what is or should be supported? If the city sends X number of dollars to a group to be distributed for projects, then so be it!
I can tell you that selling an artists 1st works ever is such a great feeling! These are young Manitobans, youn Winnipegers and whatever we can do to help them, should be done!


"The comments are very interesting. Also funny is that somebody dug up that Tom Brodbeck is VP at Bourkevale Community Club, and which received thousands of dollars in funding for ice-making, social events, a hallowe'en party, etc. last year.

NOTE** Artists numbers 5 (Sylvia Matas) and 6 (Paul Robles) are showing here at the gallery this year.

Number 1 (Daniel Barrow) is a good friend of mine, he just did a talk about his recent work in New York to a packed house, he works full time at the PlugIn Gallery downtown (the PlugIn is the gallery that borrowed our furniture, PlugIn is also Canada's only contemporary art gallery to achieve museum status, allowing them to bring in the same calibre of work as the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and any other major art gallery across Canada."