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"Did you know that Aboriginal arts and culture is a multi-million/billion dollar industry?" - proposed by Shirley Cheechoo
Aboriginal Art in B.C. is popular, abundant, more high-profile. Why not in Thunder Bay?
Chinese industry is making duplicates of all our art and sells it to the rest of the world and they are making a profit off it.
However, authenticity is key. Major Urban Centres are benefitting from this. Not locally. Higher-priced items don't sell in our community.
Should we use the internet to publicize and sell our art directly to art consumers?
What would it take to make Thunder Bay an art centre?
Many artists here feel ripped off, taken advantage of. Petty infighting.
Funding is very hard to get. Costs artists a lot of money just to come to Thunder Bay to sell.
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We still think of our arts and crafts as a cottage industry...we have to get to the next step.
Recognition from the government funding agencies to support an aboriginal school of arts in thunder bay is needed.
Web access to and for aboriginal artist need to be developed.
A school of the arts would included all media.
Promote the investment opportunities of aquiring aboriginal art as opposed to Money markets.
Development of aboriginal youth in the media and craft arts is an investment in the regional economic future.
The district jail is full of aboriginal people and possible artist.
The school system has abandond the arts.
What is needed to be a sustanable artist.
The business side of art is needed to ensure a sucessful artist cimmunity.
How do we copy right our culture to gain economic benifit before others like china do.
Aboriginal authentisity is needed to promote the local artist work.
How do we come together and fight for our designs, visual art..........to help our artists to keep getting ripped off
Our leaders/chiefs have to step up and protect our arts and cultural our children's first tool for learning is visual and media plays a big part of their learning process
our children spend up to 8 hours a day in front of the tv, computers, etc.
