OMG the artspace thing sounds incredible! So many of my artist friends who I’ve met through vendor events are neurodivergent, and something like this here would be so amazing!!
Our city was able to have them do an assessment via a grant through the state; if your community wants something like this, there was funding established after lockdowns for community economic development - it may even have been specific to the arts. Our grant writer wrote a grant and it was approved. It took about a year for Artspace to gather the info and visit community sites, and they presented findings and recommendations last week. Now it's on to the next phases - choosing a site, determining what to build, etc.
One of the questions I asked them is whether they have an inclusive interview and application process for neurodivergent artists. They sort of do, but it sounded like more of a project by project basis. So this is something I will advocate to bake into the application process for the Artspace project here.
The Last Fire Season is on my (terrifyingly long) to-read list. And I have a bit of climate grief for how winters used to be in central Illinois. Snow is fairly rare these days. So is bitter cold. As someone who likes winter, this is very much not a good thing.
Also, I think you hit on something about the airspace thing. Familiarity when traveling. While my own house looks nothing like that, I could see where airbnbs with common aesthetics could be comforting. (Maybe also boring.) Kind of like when staying at the same hotel chain in different cities. The hotels aren’t exactly the same, but there is a familiarity even if you haven’t been there before.
Ballskin Robbin’s 🤣☠️
OMG the artspace thing sounds incredible! So many of my artist friends who I’ve met through vendor events are neurodivergent, and something like this here would be so amazing!!
Our city was able to have them do an assessment via a grant through the state; if your community wants something like this, there was funding established after lockdowns for community economic development - it may even have been specific to the arts. Our grant writer wrote a grant and it was approved. It took about a year for Artspace to gather the info and visit community sites, and they presented findings and recommendations last week. Now it's on to the next phases - choosing a site, determining what to build, etc.
One of the questions I asked them is whether they have an inclusive interview and application process for neurodivergent artists. They sort of do, but it sounded like more of a project by project basis. So this is something I will advocate to bake into the application process for the Artspace project here.
The Last Fire Season is on my (terrifyingly long) to-read list. And I have a bit of climate grief for how winters used to be in central Illinois. Snow is fairly rare these days. So is bitter cold. As someone who likes winter, this is very much not a good thing.
Also, I think you hit on something about the airspace thing. Familiarity when traveling. While my own house looks nothing like that, I could see where airbnbs with common aesthetics could be comforting. (Maybe also boring.) Kind of like when staying at the same hotel chain in different cities. The hotels aren’t exactly the same, but there is a familiarity even if you haven’t been there before.
Oh yeah- congratulations on 100!!!
And “69 dudes!” 🤣