Sandy Bleifer, a local artist, is a longtime supporter for keeping Venice artists in Venice and making it affordable for such to happen.
Bleifer represents PLACE (Projects Linking Art, Community & Environment) an organization that collaborates with cities to design and build affordable places for artists to live, work. For information on PLACE go to http://www.welcometoplace.org.
“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,” wrote Bleifer. “A group of passionate community members in Venice is looking to persuade Councilman Mike Bonin and Mayor Eric 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. A petition is provided at http://venice.welcometoplace.org for your signature.”
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