Art crawls
Locating artists and audiences in the creative city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Shaw (0000-0002-6452-8408, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-73 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138113505024 |
| OpenAlex | W2157747818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article reconsiders creative city planning strategies in light of a Bourdieuian field model of cultural production. Creative city discourse imagines street-level artistic scenes as tolerant milieus that attract creative human capital and promote growth, whereas a field perspective views art scenes as generating logics and practices of exclusion. Using ethnographic observation and interviews with artists and other stakeholders in art crawl events in Portland, Oregon, and Nashville, Tennessee, this article describes how artists interact with their audiences in new urban contexts. Art crawls are monthly, coordinated, gallery-opening events that bring together art scenes and new audiences in particular times and districts, and they have proliferated in cities of all sizes in recent years, notably in places without rich traditions in the arts. This article finds that artistic professionals work to attract crowds, but the logics of their field then require sorting and selecting between them
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Contemporary art · Crowds · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Media studies · Performance art · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Loft living
The field of cultural production
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Creative Industries
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy
On the Make
The field of Cultural Production
Two-Faced Racism
Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life
White Night”
The Cultural Economy of Cities
Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification
Placing the Creative Economy
Struggling with the Creative Class
The Cultural Economy of Cities
All that jazz
Gentrification
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |