Work day: check.
Praise be to the baby g. I needed the past…four days…after an inauspicious start to last week. It all could have come crumbling down, but it didn’t. These past few days have really rallied.
I have leads, legitimate leads, on a couple cover designers for my book. HOW FRIGGIN COOL IS THAT? It’s really cool. Especially for someone who loves scifi artwork so much like I do. Eeeeee. Of course, I’m sweating what the artwork should be, how much to spend on it…that kind of business stuff.
That brings me to a conversation I had today with a friend on the facebook. They asked me why I would be upset if our US government decided to cut all funding to the arts, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting…and so I answered. I hope I didn’t answer too passionately (if I did, my apologies) — it is something that I am particularly passionate about.
I didn’t say this on the post, but this is really what programs like the National Endowment for the Arts and the CPB do that matters to me so much: they exist purely to expose people to, and educate them about, the arts. They do not fund the arts or artists…they advertise them. And education. Those are incredibly, incredibly vital things for a healthy society: education and the arts. And that’s why federal funding for the arts can be so relatively small, it’s a public service announcement that “hey! this art stuff is really cool and important!” Artists do rely on the free market to support themselves…but these programs make sure we have artists to begin with through education and inspiration. They make sure we don’t forget the incredible artists we’ve had, and they ensure we inspire the artists of the future, and that is a job for ALL of us.
I’m going to bed. It’s sleepy time.
Night! 🙂