US Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005.

Portrait in a handmade ChaChu* Mirror , designed and produced by Caryl Henry Alexander and Carlos Uribe 2008
Photo by Andre Kreft

Greetings friends! Long time-o!

I want to share this information with you. It came out in June 2008 and has great information about our artist communities. The executive summary is a great place to start. It features charts and graphs that illustrate our numbers, where we live, what fields we practice and lots more. I encourage you to read it and welcome your feedback and ideas.

http://www.nea.gov/research/ResearchReports_chrono.html


Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005.
Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005 is the first nationwide look at artists' demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century. Artists in the Workforce analyzes working artist trends, gathering new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a comprehensive overview of this workforce segment and its maturation over the past 30 years, along with detailed information on specific artist occupations.

The Meeting

"The Meeting" is a mixed media painting with batik, acrylic painting and sewing.
It represents women coming together across cultures.

Today I am thinking about Global Art Spots! I have been to a few great spots to relax, take some time, share ideas with people and make some art. Of course my big spot right now is a two car garage here in Clinton MD.

One of my favorite Art Spots is theToki Memorial Art Center and it's director, my friend Tunde Odunlade. Tunde' Center, sited in Ibadan Nigeria, had two rooms, one for batik and one for sewing on a busy sidestreet. The dying was done near the street in front of the center. Seyi Ogundele, who ran the center for Tunde, taught me the process of waxing and dying cloth. Plenty of people from the community were in and out of the studio, visiting and working each day. I was able to create a few pieces at Toki, "The Meeting" is from that series.

During my time there, I learned a lot about the possibilities of the batik process.
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This is our economic reality as a nation!

The Gross National Debt

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Caryl's Global Art Spot