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Quincy supports the arts!
While out on the prowl looking for breaking badly news on the increasingly mean streets of Quincy, Quincy Quarry New personnel happened upon a City of Quincy Parks and Forestry Department crew cleaning up the grounds of the Quincy Art Association.
So what, apparently, for the fact that the Quincy Art Association is an independent non-profit organization partially funded by grants received from the Massachusetts Cultural Council through the Quincy Arts Council as well as private donors.
A noisy & polluting City of Quincy leaf blower in action
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo
Then again, the Quincy Arts Council is operated out of the so-called also independent Quincy Historical Society and which also has long been the recipient of at least grounds keeping services by City of Quincy employees.
Further, other non City of Quincy entities are variously understood to also receive taxpayer-funded services provided by the City of Quincy.
Such benefits include particularly good snow clearing and street maintenance care provided to a certain North Quincy church as well as its adjacent private school, beach cleaning at at least one local private beach as well as all manner of rumored similar and other sorts of taxpayer-funded benefits provided to an array of all but assuredly well-connected local private or otherwise not public facilities.
Spokesmodel Walkbacker
An ill-advised Facebook posting
Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to City Hall to ask Koch Maladministration spokesmodel Pinocchio Walkbacker for an explanation for taxpayers paying for the cost of providing extra services to certain parties and entities, but saw no point bothering, much perhaps possibly actually having to listen to one spun.
In any event, one cannot only image how local taxpayers will view these wide ranging providings of special services to certain non-city facilities the next time one is hit with (yet another, ed.) a pothole in front of or otherwise near their property, a failed trash pick-up and thus a likely visit by rats or a poorly plowed – if at all – street come winter storms.
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All very interesting.
And for the annual Artsfest, this year “non-members” pay $14 per entry ($12 for members) and of course there’s the 30% fee for any piece that sells at the show, not to mention that the QAA takes no responsibility for loss of or damage to entries.
Non-profitable for entrants anyway. Seems, too, that certain members of the organization consider it their own private fiefdom.
* – Thanks for setting the table for me!
A good friend who is artist of some repute and a longtime member of a MFA senior masters studio group gave up on the local arts scene a long time ago.
And as for this year’s Artsfest top prize winning piece, its craftsmanship far outweighs its lasting contribution to art. At least as regards serious art.
Oh, and yes, the Q is rife with so-called independent not-for-profits that are propped up with taxpayers’ money and run by the self-aggrandizing. For but one example, the Quincy Hysterical Society.
Do mean to say that the top prize winner has already been picked? Because the deadline for submissions isn’t til August 28th.
Typo alert
” Do you mean to say … ? “
Correction: Quincy Quarry confused the annual Artsfest with the Marina Bay Arts Affair competition. See http://www.artsaffair.org and http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/20170808/quincy-artist-takes-top-prize-at-marina-bay-show
Let’s just say that it’s always 5 o’clock (PM, ed.) in the Quincy Quarry newsroom. That and how both of these local art events are different yet without any manner of distinction.
As penance, Quincy Quarry is reaching rumors that a top 50 in the world-ranked by the Times of London – see http://www.museumofbadart.org/about/news.php – Metro Boston area art museum is considering to feature winning entries from both the recent Arts Affair and this year’s impending Artfest.
Ha!