The city has officially agreed to move forward with the feasibility study for the PLACE initiative. I am deeply moved that our collective persistence helped secure this path toward protecting the creative spirit of our neighborhood. We will stay engaged throughout the planning process to ensure the final result truly …
March 19, 2016
Final supporters
In an effort to preserve the arts character of Venice Beach, solutions are needed to keep artists from getting priced out of the city which they have largely shaped. A group of passionate community members in Venice is looking to persuade Councilman Bonin and Mayor Garcetti to support our efforts to bring PLACE, a national nonprofit, to Venice in order to explore the development of permanently affordable living and working spaces for Venice creatives.
As an organization, PLACE (Projects Linking Art, Community & Envionment) has a long, deep history of creating forward-thinking, sustainable communities that provide permanently affordable living and working space for artists and creatives of all incomes, ages, and disciplines. A great example is the WAV (Working Artists Ventura) community in Ventura, California.
By signing this petition, you will be telling the City Council, Mayor and others that you support the development of affordable space for Venice artists! Please sign, and please share. Thank you!
Helpful links:
The PLACE website | The PLACE Facebook page
For questions, or to join the grassroots organization behind this project, please contact Sandy Bleifer: [email protected]
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
February 11, 2016
40 Comments
Place has a proven history of understanding the process of listening to and engaging creative communities. Place has then been successful in offering solutions to invigorate and maintain those communities. We need Place to help our community move forward. with the type of developments that will save our artistic heritage.
Artists made Venice, keeping art in the community is essential to keeping Venice Venice. Nobody wants to visit "silicon beach" there is nothing interesting about a bunch of overpriced offices.
"Venice of California" is instantly associated with "artists" all around the world. It should continue to be a fact, not just a label. Gentrification due to the area becoming "Silicon Beach" puts in danger the presence of artists in Venice, a Los Angeles' asset that harbored now world-recognized artists and architects such as Chris Burden, Carles Arnoldi, John Baldessari, Ed Rucha, Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Thom Maine, Eric Owen Moss, to name just a few.
We at the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art are behind this 110% and plan to be a part of the complex from development through ground breaking through occupancy.
I live at the WAV in Ventura, CA and think PLACE is doing a great job with these communities. A PLACE Artists community in Venice would be a wonderful addition to the larger community in that area.
The squeeze is real!!! Let's at least try and preserve the true soul of Venice.... Artists!
Protect the arts. It's critical to this community.
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The city has officially agreed to move forward with the feasibility study for the PLACE initiative. I am deeply moved that our collective persistence helped secure this path toward protecting the creative spirit of our neighborhood. We will stay engaged throughout the planning process to ensure the final result truly …
March 19, 2016
Final supporters
In an effort to preserve the arts character of Venice Beach, solutions are needed to keep artists from getting priced out of the city which they have largely shaped. A group of passionate community members in Venice is looking to persuade Councilman Bonin and Mayor Garcetti to support our efforts to bring PLACE, a national nonprofit, to Venice in order to explore the development of permanently affordable living and working spaces for Venice creatives.
As an organization, PLACE (Projects Linking Art, Community & Envionment) has a long, deep history of creating forward-thinking, sustainable communities that provide permanently affordable living and working space for artists and creatives of all incomes, ages, and disciplines. A great example is the WAV (Working Artists Ventura) community in Ventura, California.
By signing this petition, you will be telling the City Council, Mayor and others that you support the development of affordable space for Venice artists! Please sign, and please share. Thank you!
Helpful links:
The PLACE website | The PLACE Facebook page
For questions, or to join the grassroots organization behind this project, please contact Sandy Bleifer: [email protected]
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
February 11, 2016
40 Comments
I support Councilmember's Bonin's initiative to use the MainSt. Bus Teminal site for affordable housing - and ask that you add artist support as well. PLACE would be a terrific non-profit to advance such a plan.
Place has a proven history of understanding the process of listening to and engaging creative communities. Place has then been successful in offering solutions to invigorate and maintain those communities. We need Place to help our community move forward. with the type of developments that will save our artistic heritage.
Artists made Venice, keeping art in the community is essential to keeping Venice Venice. Nobody wants to visit "silicon beach" there is nothing interesting about a bunch of overpriced offices.
"Venice of California" is instantly associated with "artists" all around the world. It should continue to be a fact, not just a label. Gentrification due to the area becoming "Silicon Beach" puts in danger the presence of artists in Venice, a Los Angeles' asset that harbored now world-recognized artists and architects such as Chris Burden, Carles Arnoldi, John Baldessari, Ed Rucha, Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Thom Maine, Eric Owen Moss, to name just a few.
We at the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art are behind this 110% and plan to be a part of the complex from development through ground breaking through occupancy.
I live at the WAV in Ventura, CA and think PLACE is doing a great job with these communities. A PLACE Artists community in Venice would be a wonderful addition to the larger community in that area.
The squeeze is real!!! Let's at least try and preserve the true soul of Venice.... Artists!
Protect the arts. It's critical to this community.
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I support Councilmember's Bonin's initiative to use the MainSt. Bus Teminal site for affordable housing - and ask that you add artist support as well. PLACE would be a terrific non-profit to advance such a plan.