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Jane Baker: An Artist Who Gives It All Away
One day, San Francisco artist Jane Baker realized something. Now she
operates from a new place -- new, but also very old: "I don't know art
history that well, but it is only in the last few hundred years that art
has been a commodity. Before that, most artists were doing it out of
their love for, frankly, for God or their church. Most of the art that's
been made has not been made for money. So I'm standing with a group
that has been around for a lot longer! It's not a weak, touchy-feely
place. What I've started feeling is that, yes, they really knew what was
right! And it lasted a long time before this particular period we are
all in." Baker has a practice of donating one hundred percent of the
income from sales of her artwork to charities. She shares more in this
engaging interview.
