Thread 2836219

Have any of you come across lively art scenes?

Whenever I've come across art scenes (europe) it's either just depressed hipsters doing the same things as everywhere else and telling me that the scene died a decade or two ago or some tourist trap milking whatever they can from tourists with no artistry whatsoever in sight

I'm not sure what you mean by art scene but I tour appalachia and there's a lot of art stores, the best ones tend to be the cooperative ones that either make you work at the store manning the register to sell your art there, or charge you less money to sell your art if you do shifts - they tend to have good local vibes and higher quality art

there's a lot of totally shitty art stores out there, some with just chinese garbage or local art that seems careless or uninteresting, but there's lots of nice gift shops for paintings and they also have jewelry and wood and glass and fabric art.

There's definitely galleries in tourist areas with higher prices (I went to an art glass place in Hocking Hills Ohio that was like that)

But I also found two nice art places in Ohio one was in a small town (lancaster?) I wanna say that was a museum with demonstrations and a gift shop and the other was demonstrations, no museum, but a nicer selection of glass in their shop in akron

>>2836219 (OP)
Baltimore actually has a pretty good art scene, or at least it did last time I was there in 2019. Knoxville did as well. My experience tells me the places to look for good art in America is to find cities with old, walkable historic cores and large universities that have declined but are still liveable. The trouble is artists tend to revitalize where they live if they're successful, which raises the rent and chases them off, killing the scene.

>>2836232
You are gonna get someone shot. Baltimore is too terrifying to enjoy.
>Knoxville
anywhere in particular?

>>2836233
The fact that Baltimore is such a dump is what makes it cheap enough for artists to afford living there.
>anywhere in particular?
The Old City on the first Friday of them month was pretty lively.

>>2836219 (OP)
MET.