The Americans for the Arts ARTSblog is now featuring a Private Sector Salon blogathon featuring contributions from twenty diverse guest bloggers opining on an array of issues related to the private sector and the arts. I am one of those contributors and thought I would share with my followers that this Salon is now going on. I encourage you to visit the Salon and read the many thoughtful and provocative posts. You are also invited to join in the dialogue by posting comments.
With all the financial challenges arts workers are facing these days - struggling to balance the budgets of their organizations, or dealing with salary and benefit cuts on compensation that was modest to begin with - it is easy to view the sacrifices people make to work in this field as being entirely financial. Not to minimize the financial sacrifices - they ARE significant - but I would argue they are probably no more significant than a wide array of professions where people choose to devote themselves to the pursuit of "making the world a better place". This includes early childhood workers, teachers, social workers, the whole world of NGOs working in challenged communities, both domestically and abroad. And the sacrifices all these workers make are also not just financial. We all work long hours, and often under trying and unglamorous circumstances (though to outsiders arts work can seem glamorous). No, I think the more significant - and unique - sacrifice arts worke...
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