[Jewelry making - Article 00826] - Re: [Orchid] Reality Check - The Sarasota Art League

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>     Man, I just can't help myself. This thread has managed to insult
>     northerners, rural culture, newbies trying to do their jobs, civil
>     servants in general, and let's see, have I missed anything else? 

    Now, I can't help myself. I adore the written word but am constantly
    surprised at how active the reader's participation is in the final
    interpretation. If anyone thinks reading is passive; it is not. I am
    also usually surprised at the conclusions I make about a person based
    on how they "read" something. 

    Yes, actually you have missed something quite major: an established,
    talented artist was denied access to a show, with which the artist
    has considerable history, because a bot working in the administrative
    side, chose (CHOSE) to not facilitate or even explore a mutually
    beneficial solution. 

    Do not for one minute think that Sarasota's Art League doesn't
    equally suffer at the hands of Ms. Shani. Soon their show will be
    prefaced with "I have been coming for years, but it isn't what is
    once was..." 

    So what if it was one artist or twenty? Ms. Shani works for an art
    league; an art league holding their annual juried show. If I received
    a call from an artist who hadn't received an application despite
    having been in the show for years, I would immediately wonder what
    was wrong with my database. I certainly would not hold up the
    database as the beginning, middle and end of all judgments. I would
    have escalated it immediately for two reasons: 1) to have a plan of
    action in case other artists were in the same boat; 2) because I work
    for the League and the quality of their show matters to the overall
    integrity of the League. To what shall we attribute Ms. Shani's
    refusal to do anything? It certainly can not be because she is new.
    New employees ask more questions; not less. 

    As for northerners and civil servants: 

    1) I was born and raised in Manhattan, Cozumel Mexico and Key West
    Florida. There is a huge difference between the north and south; as
    there is a difference between California and New York. It is neither
    good or bad - - it is just different. As a northerner, I took no
    offense to the post; in fact, I laughed because it was so true. It
    used to take me two weeks to acclimate when going back and forth
    between NYC and Key West. 

    2) Civil Servants: Sorry, but you are asking me to defend a group
    that is, at this very moment, holding seven million people hostage in
    NYC. If you have not experienced how easy it is to stereotype civil
    servants, then, you have been fortunate. I can not say the same. When
    a person has a guaranteed job, apathy sets in. When that person has a
    guaranteed job but finds it unrewarding; I think it is safe to say
    that they take it out on the "customer" more than most people who
    could be fired. 

    I think you failed to do one very simple thing when you read the
    initial post: You failed to put yourself in the artist's shoes. There
    was no recognition of how unnerving it is to have your livelihood put
    at the mercy of another. You failed to appreciate the distress being
    caused not only by the sudden loss of expected income and exposure to
    established clients; but also by the limitations that loss sets on
    the Tucson trip. Interestingly enough, you seemed to align yourself
    with the administrative side. 

    You also projected a tone of voice onto the author that I didn't. I
    assumed the author to be professional when dealing with Ms. Shani,
    but wonderfully expressive when relaying the frustration to Orchid. I
    appreciated the humor injected despite what a set-back the whole
    situation was... but, that is just me and how I read the initial
    post. 

    And, for the record, I read subsequent posts as a sharing of
    comparable frustrations and notes of empathy/sympathy.

Cameron

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