Gwangju Seo-gu Launches 'Creative Activity Support Project' for Cultural Artists

Published 14 Oct.2021 13:06(KST)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Shin Dong-ho] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Seo Dae-seok) announced on the 14th that it will promote various creative activity support projects for local cultural artists who are struggling due to COVID-19.

The local cultural artist activity support project consists of four projects: ▲Exhibition ▲Artwork Purchase ▲Creative Activity Support ▲Public Art (Installation and Repair), with a project budget of 129 million KRW.

The exhibition will be held from the 19th of this month to the 8th of next month at the first-floor lobby of Shinsegae Department Store, where three local cultural art groups will rotate their works weekly. Seo-gu will provide exhibition space and administrative support such as promotion.

For artwork purchase, works by local artists in five fields?Korean painting, literary painting, Western painting, poetry painting, and calligraphy?will be publicly recruited. A review committee composed of external experts will fairly decide on the purchased works and prices, and the selected works will be displayed inside the Seo-gu office building.

Creative activity support is a project that supports visual arts, literature, and other artistic activities of local cultural art groups. Two groups were selected through a public recruitment in August and are currently carrying out the project.

Public art (installation and repair) will select two sites within the district’s fences and retaining walls that have deteriorated, harming the neighborhood’s aesthetics or posing safety risks due to damage. Local cultural artists will participate in creating murals to provide residents with a pleasant living environment.

A Seo-gu official said, “Through this support project, we expect it to be an opportunity for local artists who are devoted to creative activities with passion for art despite difficult circumstances to develop further. We will continue to do our best to support local artists’ creative activities and provide citizens with cultural enjoyment in daily life.”