Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
From the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman: Celebrating Black History Month
NEA: Here at the National Endowment for the Arts, we celebrate Black History Month because we know that you cannot tell the history of the arts in the United States of America without including the many long-lasting contributions of African Americans to the country’s cultural landscape. For example, even as 13 overseas British colonies were working to become an independent nation, an enslaved young woman in Boston, Phillis Wheatley, was creating work that ranked her among the best-known poets of the time.
Groundbreaking Weekend of Women+ allows space to learn and heal
UNCSA: “I am continuously amazed how often I have to stop myself and remember that it wasn’t until my late 30s that I got to experience rooms like this,” said Nicola Rossini, as she addressed a theater full of students, faculty and staff during the recent Weekend of Women+ at UNCSA.
AB5 backlash: California's arts community sounds off on new law
Los Angeles Times: AB5, California’s new gig economy law, has left the state’s performing artist community in a state of fear and confusion.
The law is intended to reduce worker misclassification, making it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. It establishes a test to determine whether workers are employees who should receive minimum wage, paid sick days and other benefits.
Backdrops, front and center: These massive paintings by unheralded movie studio artists, which provided magical settings during Hollywood's Golden Age, are finding a new life
CBS News: They're just paint and canvas, but in Hollywood's Golden Age, painted backdrops played a vital role in the magic of movies, creating cities, sunsets, or anything else a director could imagine.
Art professor Karen Maness appreciates every brushstroke. "The backdrop is part of extending the world of the set," she said. "Often times it was just seen outside windows. But sometimes it even included the entire world of a set on a sound stage and creating that environment."
Costume Designers on Pay Equity Within the Guild
Variety: Costume designers have been fighting for pay equity for years, gearing up for their 2021 contract negotiations by establishing a committee highlighting the difference in pay between the mostly female Costumer Designers Guild and the primarily male membership of the Art Directors Guild Local 800. According to Amy Roth, who designed costumes on “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Madame Secretary,” those gender issues are at the heart of the matter.
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