A Sad Day Made Sadder…

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   floridakestrel

   November 20, 2023

   We can’t have ANY nice things anymore, can we?! I’ve just learned of two more colleges/universities who have canceled their printmaking programs or who have put their last professor on double-duty teaching other art mediums as well. It’s pretty inevitable that less-popular printmaking supplies (for etching, lithography) are going to be harder to come by. Reading this about Aardman’s clay of choice is just the latest in the coming art supply drought as fewer students even apply to traditional, non-digital programs.

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      alfonsoelsabio

      November 20, 2023

      Indeed… and I have nothing against The Digital, only when it grows at the expense of The Analog. And that goes for the aural as well as the visual.

      I was just recently (as in the past week) delighted to have a new digital synthesizer arrive, only to learn a few this weekend that said company is in receivership to the tune of several MILLIONS of £££s (their payroll not having been made for months, creditors unpaid for up to a year; in effect, shortly to be no more. Low sales seems to have been the culprit (and they were, in a realm where instruments are costing €£$5,000 and more, in expensive at 1/10th that price).

      Being able to continue to make art/music is so very important; losing resources of either kind is fate at its cruelest.

      In Aardman’s case, the lack of a buyer for the company is especially wretched.

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