Electric Current reader Chris Taylor
Electric Current reader Chris Taylor details the hostile reception artists and musicians get from the city of A2. His letter is too long to recap here, but here’s the main point:
Ann Arbor promotes itself as a Midwestern artists’ Mecca. This couldn’t be further from the truth! The Technology Center, the last affordable artists space in town, is being torn down at the end of June to make way for a new $18-million-dollar YMCA.
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This is the type of attitude that the “powers that be” have been inflicting upon the Ann Arbor underground sub-culture for decades, going back some 30 years to incidents involving people like John Sinclair and the MC5. Yet Ann Arbor claims that it welcomes cultural/artistic diversity. We have the Art Fair, don’t we?
NOTE: this is not the same Christopher Taylor running for council in the Third Ward!