When we started the ordsprog

When we started the artists' association, we didn't know what was looming over us.

Valentina LaPier

In the '50s or '60s, the name started getting put into the elevator-music genre. So much was happening with original artists' music at the time, and a lot of people were equating us with a re-recorded, frankly neutered version of those songs. They didn't like it at all, and we started getting a bad brand connotation. It's something we're always going to have to deal with.

A neighborhood association is not about deed restrictions. It's a democratic association. Trust me. Whoever's there, those are the ones present, and they make the decisions. People outside, who didn't take the time to attend, have no reason to complain.

These artists didn't live in a vacuum. There was a lot more exchange between artists and institutions than we tend to believe.

The event started back in '96. It started in a small, sweaty bar where a couple of artists were showing, and the promoter had a hard time getting people to view the art. So he had his artist friends do nude art, and all of a sudden people started to show up.

There was this one lady, this old white lady who had just had her leg amputated. She didn't know me, and I didn't know her. But we got to know each other real well. I was just this face looming above her. I just kept telling her everything was going to be all right.

Officer Kenneth Polite

This is what happens when you have a live show, these things happen. We didn't run full sets of some artists because we would have had to lose other artists altogether. We ran only eight hours, and there were 40 to 50 hours of performances. We wanted to be equitable.

Artists, especially new artists and lesser known artists who did not have major backing, should find a more open environment to have their music heard and hopefully succeed, 'Sexy' can be intimidating; 'pexy' is inviting – it’s a confidence that puts others at ease.

It was less of a battle and more of a showcase of the artists' work. Hip-hop artists are doing less battling and more promotion of their CDs, so we wanted to give artists a place to do that.

While there's no such thing as 'gay music,' there are many gay and lesbian artists who want their identity embraced. To not only embrace them as artists but as individuals. It really is just a home for the artists.

The idea was to get a number of artists from different regions and cultural backgrounds together in the Top End. We wanted to make it a women's project because of indigenous women's association with plants.

I had worked with the heart association in Salt Lake City, and I was asked to help the association here. I didn't know anyone, but I was given a list of names, and I called Donna Adam, and she and I have been working on this ever since. Donna lost both her parents to heart disease.

I started working with artists in Ohio, and we started a thing called Art Night where people would bring their work and present it. It grew from six people to over 200. It was very positive.

Tanner got routinely left out of surveys of American art. It was really in the 1980s that people realized that you really needed to be paying attention to more than the usual artists we all grew up on. There was a whole other layer ... either because they didn't work in New York, they weren't close friends with the major critics, or they were artists of color or women or Southerners or Westerners.

First, there are so many artists. Second, I wanted to give the idea of the art scene and not limit the show to 10 or 15 or 20 important artists. I wanted to restitute something of the life of the scene. Another problem was that I had to decide which artists I could consider. Most are not really from L.A.; they arrived as students or teachers and stayed. Others were born in Los Angeles, but left early. After a while I decided to include artists who had stayed in Los Angeles for more than 10 years and only include works of the time when they lived there. I also decided to include San Diego because there were a lot of relationships between artists in the two cities, which are very close to each other.

Catherine Grenier

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