[DowntownArtists] Fwd: artist

[Mark Walsh]

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> From: Bocadeverita at aol.com
> Date: June 28, 2007 10:23:46 AM PDT
> To: mark at markwalshdesigns.com
> Subject: artist
>
> local truly talented artists don't want to sign up for your website  
> artist guide because they all realized how narrow minded your  
> organization and founding members are. You are not interested in  
> supporting artists. You are interested in supporting friends of  
> friends who make bullshit art. I mean come on... Martin Durazo?   
> His art work is the kind of thrown together crap teenage wanna be  
> artists from Ann Arbor were making in the late 80s. What were you  
> thinking?  It's a pity you have lost such a huge opportunity to  
> show case true talent in downtown los angeles.  At some point you  
> have to stop and ask yourselves why you're having such a hard time  
> getting artist to sign up. The truth is well known amongst the  
> community of artist in downtown ... your organization and its core  
> members have bad reputation amongst the legitimately talented  
> artists here. The only thing left is for all of you to realize that  
> your organization will not thrive with the current founders in  
> place. There isn't one visionary in the group and if there was one,  
> you all wouldn't see him or her. Narrow vision, narrow mind.
>
>
>

Our first hate mail!

I didn't realize people were not signing up because we are excluding  
them! I guess I am so narrow minded, I didn't notice.
The site is getting an average of 100 visitors a day and new artists  
are signing up every day.
The over all response has been very positive.
Martin, by the way, was one of the artists selected by a panel of  
gallery owners and other art experts, as worthy of a $5,000 grant.
Feel free to let this person know what you think about their opinion.

Mark

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