| "Asked what was required to create a work of art,
Herman Melville responded ‘Time, strength, cash and patience.'
On a literal level, individual artist fellowships of the kind
awarded by the Maine Arts Commission and New England Foundation
for the Arts are gifts of cash. But if Melville's list is examined,
it is clear that a fellowship is a gift of creativity. It is a
contemporary truism that ‘time is money,' but for the artist
the reverse is true: ‘money is time.' And all too often the
absence of time and cash saps strength and patience. An Individual
Artist Fellowship then, is a gift of creativity to the artist
who receives it. And by extension it is a gift of art that enriches
the entire community. It is these gifts To Support, To Acknowledge,
To Promote celebrates."
Susan Waller, 1991
excerpt from, To Support, To Acknowledge,
To Promote. |
