1/23/2012

Art Cart - archiving, ageing creatively

Yesterday Maureen at Writing without Paper on her Saturday Sharing made me curious about  Art Cart - Saving the Legacy  The 11 minute video about the program is on vimeo.

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Art Cart is a program at Columbia University in NYC that has graduate students cataloging and archiving the work of elderly (68 plus) artists.  Being an artist geezer myself I think it is a great project.

 I agree with one artist who said artists are not necessarily old, they are active doing art or they are not.  Another idea mentioned in the video is the accumulation of art over the years can be a problem and burden when it is left behind, which will happen.  A third concept is continuing to work as an artist and creating is a way to stay active and engaged in life as the years grow shorter.

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