The Art Worker 015
09/22/2023
Contemporary Art League x The Artist's Contract
We’re delighted to announce that Contemporary Art League has partnered with The Artist’s Contract to provide free, adaptable online contract templates to the community.
Visual artists need tools and resources to protect our rights and financial security. Contracts are a solution. Co-founded by attorney Susan Schwartz and artist Virginia Broersma, The Artist’s Contract is part of a larger movement to establish fairness and equity within the art world. The Artist’s Contract website is a hub for free legal contracts for visual artists.
Based on the co-founders’ extensive research and community conversations, the FARE (Fair Artists’ Reserved Equity) Contract was launched in 2021 as a new model for past efforts in this area, such as the Projansky Deal, and in conversation with more recent work such as the Ross-Sutton Agreement. The FARE Contract is free to use and is adaptable, allowing each user to determine which terms are important to them and preserving their ability to negotiate according to their interests. Since creating the FARE Contract, The Artist’s Contract has added two more templates to the website: a Cease and Desist Letter, and a Commission Agreement. Next up: a consignment agreement template that will be launched in the coming months.
The Artist’s Contract project has grown to encompass education and advocacy around the use of contracts in the visual arts. Providing these free tools to artists opens the door to conversations about artists’ rights, advocating and negotiating on one’s own behalf, and the ways that the art world could move toward more fairness and equity, efforts that directly align with Contemporary Art League’s mission to build unity, solidarity, and equity among art workers in Los Angeles County.
To learn more and to get started with the FARE Contract, visit our website.
CAL IRL @ ICA LA
CAL and ICA LA have renewed our partnership for another six months! We look forward to seeing you at our monthly gatherings at our new monthly day and time: Thursdays from 5-7pm.
There will be no gathering in September; the next CAL IRL @ ICA LA will be on Thursday October 26 at 5pm.
CAL IRL @ ICA LA is a monthly gathering for art workers to hang out and talk openly about the opportunities and challenges we face in our life’s work and to dream CAL’s long term goal of offering professional support, community services, and advocacy opportunities in a cooperatively owned community center into reality. We have a new time: monthly on Thursdays from 5-7pm.
In this next chapter of CAL IRL @ ICA LA, we’re trying something new: We’re bringing the teach-ins we do at our monthly working group meetings to the gathering setting. 10-20-minute teach-ins will start at 5:15 and be followed by open discussion for half an hour or so. We’ll close out our gatherings promptly at 7pm. To learn about teach-in presenters and topics in advance and stay up to date on everything we’re up to, keep an eye out for monthly editions of The Art Worker in your inbox and announcements on our IG feed.
If you have a topic you’d like to present as a teach-in at an upcoming CAL IRL @ ICA LA gathering, email us at info@contemporaryartleague.com to let us know.
How can I get involved with Contemporary Art League?
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Come visit, share ideas and get inspired at CAL IRL @ ICA LA. Our next meet up is on Thursday October 26, 5pm - 7pm at ICA LA.Use The Artist’s Contract free online templates
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