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International Art Gallery
Category: Education and Creativity | Area of Effect: Cultural

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The World Assembly,

Applauding the rich artistic traditions of the World Assembly’s diverse multitude of member states,

Concerned, however, that cultural divides and a lack of international cooperation often lead to a lack of multicultural artistic knowledge,

Wishing to educate and inspire a new generation of artists among WA citizens by creating a public gallery of artwork from member states of all sizes, cultures, and histories,

Hereby:

Establishes the Artistic Retention Trusteeship (ART) with the task of creating, maintaining, and expanding two galleries:

1. The Publicly Available International Net Treasury (PAINT), a public and easily available online repository with the purpose of documenting the artwork of member states. The ART must:
   
   1. Visit the public museums and galleries of all consenting member nations to photograph, audio/videotape, or otherwise record a digital display of all exhibited artworks within, except when:
      
      1. a nation would present a direct or indirect danger to any dispatched photographers or historians.
      2. Photographing or otherwise recording the artwork would damage or degrade the quality of the piece.
   2. Research and compose, to the best of their ability, a short historical or contextual explanation of each recorded artwork for study thereof.
   3. Publish all digital artwork displays on the PAINT website alongside any research done on the histories of the artworks.
   4. Establish an onsite channel for reporting mistakes done in research or origins of any artworks; All such reports must be investigated and changed accordingly.
   5. Ensure effective and adequate organization and working order of the PAINT, including searchable labelling of artwork by nation, artist, time period, collection, and any other labels deemed relevant by the ART.
2. The Public Institution for the Exhibition of Craft Expertise (PIECE), a physical gallery with the purpose of presenting the greatest masterpieces of each member nation:
   
   1. The Office of Building Management must allocate a sufficiently accessible (to as many WA nations as possible) and sizable portion of land within international World Assembly territory for the purposes of building the PIECE.
   2. The ART must:
      
      1. Build and maintain the PIECE, accommodating adequate space for the volume of donated artworks and providing additional ability to expand as necessary for future donations to the gallery.
      2. Establish a system of outgoing loans with member state governments wherein governments may loan up to two pieces of artwork to the PIECE for a period of 3 years, choosing at the end of that period to either renew the loans on those pieces of artwork, exchange them with other pieces, or remove them entirely.
      3. Ensure that all artworks being loaned to the gallery are of a reasonable size, moral decency, and have not been illegally or immorally sourced. Additionally, to the best of its ability, consent must be ascertained by any living artists or creators of works being loaned to the PIECE.
      4. Conserve all active artworks in the PIECE, ensuring they are not damaged or altered during their time in the PIECE. If a piece becomes impossible to conserve for any reason, ART may cancel the outgoing loan and request another artwork from the originating nation.
      5. Create caption cards for all submitted artworks based on any information provided by donating member states, making sure to include the artists and countries of origin.

Encourages member states to expand art study programs to include foreign artwork and artistic technique as well as student exchange programs to other WA member states.

Co-authored by Fhaengshia.

Araraukar wrote:OOC: Without googling, name two well-known Finnish works of art and their signifigance to you.

If you cannot and if they hold no signifigance to you, why should someone from a different universe care about somone else's nation's art? If they are interested, I'm fairly sure they could ask for pics of them already.

Araraukar wrote:OOC: Without googling, name two well-known Finnish works of art and their signifigance to you.

If you cannot and if they hold no signifigance to you, why should someone from a different universe care about somone else's nation's art? If they are interested, I'm fairly sure they could ask for pics of them already.

I believe that our Ministers and our people will greatly appreciate this idea, and will definitely vote for this to become a resolution. I support this draft myself personally, though i also believe this might be an insanely tiring task for all parties involved, especially The World Assembly. Nonetheless, I will send the complete draft to our ministers for a proper review as soon as possible.

-Nipolas J. Molon, Delegate of Berusturg

Morover wrote:"Do you not think that 1a is a tad burdensome on the World Assembly? Between the tens of thousands of member nations and presumably massive amounts of art present in each nation, it seems insane to require that every single piece of art be documented, regardless of merit. While we here at Morover greatly value cultural enrichment programs such as this, we cannot justify the draining of World Assembly funds towards the payment of photographers to photograph even the most infinitesimal or insignificant of artworks."

Fachumonn wrote:GWAAG is not the best name. More comments soon.

Thousand Branches wrote:

Fachumonn wrote:GWAAG is not the best name. More comments soon.

It’s an acronym.

Imperium Anglorum wrote:You can abbreviate "Grand World Assembly Art Gallery" to "Art Gallery" (with caps) or something like that, if this is really something important.

Morover wrote:"Do you not think that 1a is a tad burdensome on the World Assembly? Between the tens of thousands of member nations and presumably massive amounts of art present in each nation, it seems insane to require that every single piece of art be documented, regardless of merit. While we here at Morover greatly value cultural enrichment programs such as this, we cannot justify the draining of World Assembly funds towards the payment of photographers to photograph even the most infinitesimal or insignificant of artworks."

Fachumonn wrote:

Imperium Anglorum wrote:You can abbreviate "Grand World Assembly Art Gallery" to "Art Gallery" (with caps) or something like that, if this is really something important.

Nothing really important but it keeps me from taking this proposal so serious when I read "GWAAG".

Acknowledging, however, that cultural divide and a lack of international cooperation often lead to a lack of multiversal artistic knowledge throughout member states,

Wishing to educate and inspire a new generation of artwork among WA citizens by creating a public gallery of artwork from member states big and small,

The International Online Artistic Repository (IOAR), a publicly and easily available online repository with the purpose of documenting the artwork of member states. The ART must:

1. Visit the public museums and galleries of all consenting member nations to photograph (or otherwise document) and record the history of all displayed artworks within. This does not apply to nations that present a direct or indirect danger to any dispatched photographers or historians.
2. Publish all photographs/documents on the IOAR website alongside any research done on the histories of said artworks.
3. Establish an onsite channel for reporting mistakes done in research or origins of any artworks; All such reports must be investigated and changed accordingly.
4. Ensure the proper organization and working order of the IOAR, including making artworks searchable by nation or artist.

The International Gallery of Design (IGD), a physical gallery with the purpose of exemplifying the best masterpieces of each individual member nation:

1. The Office of Building Management (OBM) must allocate a sizable portion of land - within international World Assembly territory and with sufficient transportation to and from all member states - on which to build the IGD.
2. The ART must:
   
   1. Build and maintain the IGD, making sure to accommodate space and constant expansion for member states that wish to donate artwork to the gallery.
   2. Collect a maximum of two donated artworks from member states that wish to donate said artwork to the IGD. The ART must ensure those artworks are of a reasonable size and moral decency.
   3. Create caption cards for all submitted artworks based on the information provided by donating member states, making sure to include the artist and country of origin.

Member states are encouraged to expand art study programs to include foreign artwork and artistic technique as well as student exchange programs to other WA member states.

Estabelece a Curadoria de Retenção Artística (ART) com a tarefa de criar, manter e expandir duas galerias:

O Repositório Artístico Online Internacional (IOAR), um repositório on-line disponível publicamente e facilmente com o objetivo de documentar a arte dos Estados-membros. A ART deve:
Visite os museus públicos e galerias de todas as nações membros que consentirem para fotografar (ou documentar de outra forma) e registrar a história de todas as obras de arte expostas dentro. Isso não se aplica a nações que apresentam um perigo direto ou indireto a qualquer fotógrafo ou historiador despachado.
Publique todas as fotografias/documentos no site da IOAR ao lado de qualquer pesquisa feita sobre as histórias dessas obras de arte.
Estabelecer um canal no local para relatar erros cometidos em pesquisas ou origens de quaisquer obras de arte; Todos esses relatórios devem ser investigados e alterados em conformidade.
Garanta a organização adequada e a ordem de trabalho do IOAR, incluindo tornar as obras de arte pesquisáveis por nação ou artista.

• The addition of Fhaengshia as co-author for their help with... pretty much all the other major changes.
• Methods of recording artworks for the IOAR have been expanded to include artworks that don't fit in the area of simple photography.
• History clause has been more fully expanded on.
• Everything with the IGD (now the IGA) has been pretty much overhauled and refinished. It now works on a set of outgoing loans and ART is required to help conserve artworks while they're under their care.

Tinhampton wrote:"Hereby member states are encouraged to X" is a grammatically incorrect sentence.

You offer an acronym for "The Office of Building Management" without ever using it again.

Why can "nations that present a direct or indirect danger to any dispatched photographers or historians" not offer digitised pieces of art to the IOAR themselves and leave it to the ART gnomes in their perfectly safe and functional offices to do the rest?