bad! bad! bad!

black history month
First, I didn't say, happy Black history Month to you all!Some times I get too busy to celebrate and at other times I wonder, what i'm celebrating for?.
I know that's Bad. Not to put a damper on the celebrations,it's a time to reflect on the advances that have been made. This should be the obligatory Obama part, but, In Canada, We still are pretty invisible, especially in the art scene. Thats why our parents look at us like we have no sense!

how do artists survive out there?

Canadian artists, typically earns an annual salary of $23,500 (about 26 per cent less than the average for all labour force workers). However, visible minority artists largely from the Chinese, black and South Asian communities earn an average of $20,800 a year, or 11 per cent less than the average artist. Immigrant artists fare slightly better, taking home about $23,200 a year, a touch under the average earnings of all artists.
The lowest incomes were aboriginal artist
the first nations artist will earn the least. So to be an artist you got to have something pushing you towards the finish line. Sure, you can point to one or two big money makers in arts. Actually I don't think I can. So all you artist remember get paid! because you never can tell when the next cheque will be coming your way.

whats word on black arts
is something holding us back?

Anthony Joyette, and Dr Charmaine Nelson, talk about this. Dr Nelson really talks about the systemic racism in art history. I have heard her on the radio and she teaches at Mcgill, lecturing on Art History and communications.Dissecting the canon.


"new age of Obama" are we locking ourselves out or is there a chair keeping the doors firmly jammed? people of colour have always been talked about, painted,but We rarely had the opportunity to speak or paint our story.its like when you see in the national art gallery pictures of black women, painted by white men, or listen to Ella singing the Gershwin song book, you may think its from a black body but its from a person outside the culture.
it is now we can speak our words(hopefully) and now we can critique our own stories.during this month and from now on spend some time, renting movies by black artist,like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Sex_and_Eating_the_Bones> Sudz Sutherland.clement virgo, or others