NAAO+ Trailer 2 History Part 1
In this trailer we will look at NAAO’s beginnings and its strong ties to the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. NAAO was a hybrid organization providing services and advocacy. The idea that you could be both for and against the government made NAAO a different fish altogether not only in its cooperative beginnings with the NEA but also because of the idea you could simply be for the cause of art and artists, not in service to a cause considered to be of higher critical purpose, or importance. Some on the left have a problem with art being for itself but perhaps this is a misguided way of looking at art. Art is a human creation that whether for itself or in service defines us as human — nothing greater or less — simply human. People mentioned in this trailer include Martha Wilson, Brian O’Doherty, Jim Melchert, Benny Andrews, Al Nodal, Renny Pritikin, Linda Goode Bryant, MK Wegmann, Claire Copley, Hudson, Inverna Lockpez, Helen Brunner, and Roberto Bedoya.