Thursday, June 22, 2017

Artists Must Realize They Have A Role In Gentrification (And What To Do About It)

"We recognize that art is an industry with a structural reality that must be acknowledged in order for artists to challenge their complicity in the displacement of long term residents in low-income and working class neighborhoods and fight against this. It’s important that people see the devastating impacts of securing housing in working class and poor neighborhoods, and setting up investment properties posing as art spaces."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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