I had expected to be concentrating now on doing the last push of over time before the ma. However, I find that there are lots to do. We are having an open studios exhibition at Digswell on the 12th and 13th September, keeping it short and sweet. Wednesday night we got together for a meeting to discuss the organising of it and ideas for the opening to be held on Friday 11th September.
Digswell Arts Trust is an organisation that celebrates its origins, looks back to the good old days of the radical 60’s through those rose tinted glasses. It has had some excellent artists through it’s doors more recently as well but those seem not to be acknowledged widely or just quietly shelved maybe until their names might be more recognisable to the mainstream. Who knows?
What we know for sure now is that we, the artists are definitely not the things that the Trust is primarily about. The Trust is about the past.
Last year we attempted to apply ourselves to developing the future of the Trust, we tried to contribute our efforts and be proactive and recognise our responsibility to the Trust and it’s survival. A year down the line however, we are left despondent and disillusioned with regards to our efforts. (On Andrews advice-large chunk removed due to confidentiality issues) Opps!
This is why the talk last year of developing the Digswell Arts Trust stopped from the side of the artists and from my blog. I have not been to a Trustee meeting since. I really can’t see the point.
So as you can probably imagine, getting back on this Open Studios ride and readdressing our identity as Digswell Artists again, is one I thought we would be reluctant to do.
However, it was a good meeting, most people turned up and after a time of throwing different ideas into the mix we found ourselves in agreement that we would again use it as an opportunity to try out new things, work together and show our worth as artists. I could feel that there was a real desire to not just fall away from each other. We can’t change the Trust as we have discovered, but we still are a group of artists. continued…
