Jennifer Riddell wrote:
>
> Does anyone have advice about commissioning a print edition to benefit
> one's organization?  Is the artist generally paid a fee, or expected to
> donate the edition?  Any other tips, do/don'ts would be appreciated --
>
> Jennifer Riddell
> Curatorial Fellow
> MIT List Visual Arts Center, E15-109
> 617/253-4400

Dear Jennifer:

I used to be a print publisher for more than 15 years. Why would you expect
an artist to have to donate anything? Isn't she entitled like anybody else to
make a living? Unless the artist volunteers, I would have never dared asking
an artist to work for the glory. Life in general is already so hard for them
that they do not need that kind of pseudo beneficial exposure.

I did not mean to come down on you as hard as it may sound. It simply that as
a artist and former print publisher I have seen so many of these abuses where
the artist ends up always being on the giving end. So seldom being paid for
their right contribution.

Sincerely yours,

Gerard Perez


Gerard Perez