Report Highlights Challenges In Preserving Artists' Legacies

(MENAFN- USA Art News) A new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, titled“Creating Future Memory,” examines the systemic challenges that determine which artists are remembered and how their legacies are preserved. The 80-page document, published on September 15, incorporates 145 testimonies from artists, family members, curators, and other arts professionals.

Among those contributing to the report is Mikiko Ino, president and director of the New York-based nonprofit KinoSaito. Ino recalled a sentiment often expressed by her late husband, abstract painter and KinoSaito co-founder Kikuo Saito.“Kikuo always said there are two deaths: the first is physical, and the second is when nobody talks about you,” Ino stated.“I decided to never give him the second death.”

The report, co-authored by the Foundation's Director of Artist Programs Solana Chehtman and art writer Sharon Mizota, identifies three core issues facing those managing artist legacies: insufficient access to knowledge, limited funding and resources, and inadequate coordination and collaboration. This research builds upon the Foundation's long-running Creative a Living Legacy (CALL) program, which began in 2007.

Chehtman characterized the current state of artist legacy planning systems as“deeply underdeveloped, underfunded, and oftentimes completely inaccessible to artists [and professionals] working outside the mainstream.”

Source: Hyperallergic

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