In "
28 Days in Cleveland," Mogran Meis, first writer in residence at
SPACES from June 15 – July 12, 2015, finds Cleveland a great town for art.
"...That stubbornness, I submit, has something to do with northeast Ohio.
Can we all agree that it takes a bit more than the average amount of
willfulness to choose Cleveland? For a normal person with any amount of
artistic talent, the first instinct might be to get away from northeast
Ohio, to go somewhere with greater resources for creating artistic
careers.
"But the artists who have chosen to stay have, with a kind of devilish cleverness, hit upon an otherwise hidden benefit of a city that everyone else has been leaving for decades. If you are just bold enough to actually believe in your art and your ability to create what you want, Cleveland becomes a kind of secret utopia. No one outside of Cleveland gives a shit what you do inside Cleveland, so you can do it to your heart’s content. Add to this the fact that Cleveland is an extremely affordable city and you have a recipe for almost total aesthetic freedom."
2 comments:
Thank God - more outside validation that this place is not the cesspool for the arts our everyday experience would otherwise lead us to believe.
Do cesspools have potholes?
hey, and it's the best beer city in America, too!
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