US Art Union
Art for Art's Sake! Support The Arts!
Click on IC to visit the Support The Arts Store presented by Byteland Art
Click on IC to visit the Support The Arts Store presented by Byteland Art
US Art Union is a grassroots effort. Artists and creative people are exploited. Only by coming together and acting through a united body and effort can artists hope to end their exploitation.
US Art Union was founded to help begin a process whereby change may begin, such that the various ways in which artists, especially struggling artists, are exploited, may be stopped.
In many parts of the world artists are paid slave labor wages working for companies which produce and export goods and services, said companies becoming rich in the process at the expense of artists and craftsmen and women. Even in the United States artist and craftsmen and women are often exploited by large companies who pay meager salaries, retain all rights to original creative work, and systematically exploit artists.
Certainly artists and craftsmen and women do not make what doctors and lawyers make per hour. Why not? Part of the problem is that our modern culture does not place a high value upon art, not unless an artist is famous and/or long dead. The ability to mass produce goods has brought down the value of products, such that the unique works by artists are not appreciated or highly valued.
Basically artists and craftsmen and women have been reduced to second class citizens exploited by big business and, instead of acting together as a union to protect their rights and increase the value of their work and service, artists are made to compete one against the other, to their general detriment.
This is a very bad situation if you are an artist. It is why so many artists are starving, struggling to get by, to make ends meet.
The solution to this problem is for artist to organize, to form art guilds, unions, coops, and other organizations. US Art Union is one such grass roots effort.
There are many way you can help. The first is to promote the idea that everyone "Support The Arts!"
Toward this end please purchase and display "Support the Art" items listed in our gallery. Thank you!
Of course this is only a beginning. If you have ideas or suggestions for how artists can improve their situation please send them to US Art Union or post them on the AmeriArts Forum. Thank you.
Here are some things you may begin to do immediately to help Support the Arts:
Share your good ideas. If you have idea or story to share realted to how artist can organize and how to Support the Arts, please share them. Send you ideas to US Art Union or post them on the AmeriArts Forum. Thank you!
Please Support The Arts by your purchase of these adorable design items. Thank you for your patronage!
You are invited to join the Byteland Art Guild. Members of the Byteland Art Guild will receive links to their home page and listing of their art work to help market original, unique art and designs.