“Sydney Lancaster (Advocacy Director) recommends the following article…
A story about a protest against the Serpentine Gallery in London regarding unpaid internships … thankfully, this is not the usual way things are done in our Edmonton arts community, but there are many places in which this is not the case, and young artists and arts administrators feel pressured to take unpaid positions on the promise of ‘future benefit’ in the industry. Another case of ‘dying of exposure’.
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Chris W. Carson (Executive Director) visited the Sepentine Gallery in December and was impressed by the retrospective exhibition of the work of Jake and Dino Chapman but was also equally disappointed in their use of unpaid internships…
