Check out this article by Mary Louise Shumacher comparing and contrasting the "avant-garde" that was forming ten years ago to the art scene of Milwaukee today. I wasn't here ten years ago so I can't speak for that, but I do see a lot of promise and a lot of good things happening in today's art community. There are things I'd change, things I'd rather be a different way, things I want to do, things I think could be greatly beneficial to the city, but ya know, that's me. That's probably what many other artists think as well.
I definitely think this is great and good to see, I just hope that it doesn't end here. Declaring that there is an avant-garde and saying who's leading it doesn't make it so. It takes hard work and focused ideas to actually accomplish something, and I sure hope that we are up to the challenge, otherwise we'll just be another city who self-promoting our "great arts community" just like every other city in the nation.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/135456663.html
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