Art Walk Can't Become 'a Mardi Gras Type of Event:' L.A. City Hall Looks at Reining it in Following Death of Infant

dtliver

The LA Artwalk has been purposely steered away from the focus on art to a focus on the "EVENT". All of the business leaders chose a director for the artwalk that is a PR person not an art person from the community. All there to make sure the event takes a turn towards promoting personal agendas. No wonder the artwalk has turned into this mess. If real community art leaders had been brought in to bring the focus back to the art elements then Art would be the focus. It can happen but a real art leader needs to be brought in to make this change! But I really have no hope for this to happen. The artwalk will become like all of the other things in L.A. a political agenda event with the soul sucked out of it in favor of the politicians agendas and corporate agendas. This is the real travesty of the potential of what the artwalk could be. Which is a a major art experience with layers of artists participating. Our community leaders: Al Abrams a commissioner appointed by our Mayor is arrested for child porn charges-A PR person appointed to run the artwalk-A child dies. What else lies under the rugs of all of the other political moves that happened downtown? The changes in the future will be just more of the same. Stupid decisions made on political agendas that are created by sociopaths. Yeah I am pretty hopeless about where this is going. No one has stepped up to change things for the better -for the art!

Kim Cooper

On October 1, 2009, the non-profit board of the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk unanimously voted in a policy document meant to steer the growth and ensure public safety for the then-burgeoning community event. A link to this document can be found by googling "Policy directions abandoned by the Downtown Art Walk board in 2010."

On November 9, 2009, founding non-profit director Richard Schave (my husband) and I stepped down from the board of the non-profit we had founded, due to false attacks on our competence and credibility from Russell Brown, the Executive Director of the neighborhood's landlord's organization (HCBID) and then-President of the Downtown LA Neighborhood Council (DLANC), and the troubles that Mr. Brown's attacks had created within the board.

The policy document, although unanimously approved by the board, disappeared from the Art Walk website soon after we stepped down, as did the event's Mission Statement. We are unaware of any policy documents or Mission Statement which have replaced them.

We hope that this lengthy document, the result of ten months of feedback from the downtown community and research into the management of similar happenings nationwide, will be of use to the Art Walk Task Force as they seek to determine where this important event, held in the public trust, has been and where it is going.

Kim Cooper

On October 1, 2009, the non-profit board of the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk unanimously voted in a policy document meant to steer the growth and ensure public safety for the then-burgeoning community event. A link to this document is below.artwalk2009.wordpress.com/2011... November 9, 2009, founding non-profit director Richard Schave (my husband) and I stepped down from the board of the non-profit we had founded, due to false attacks on our competence and credibility from Russell Brown, the Executive Director of the neighborhood's landlord's organization (HCBID) and then-President of the Downtown LA Neighborhood Council (DLANC), and the troubles that Mr. Brown's attacks had created within the board. The policy document, although unanimously approved by the board, disappeared from the Art Walk website soon after we stepped down, as did the event's Mission Statement. We are unaware of any policy documents or Mission Statement which have replaced them.We hope that this lengthy document, the result of ten months of feedback from the downtown community and research into the management of similar happenings nationwide, will be of use to the Art Walk Task Force as they seek to determine where this important event, held in the public trust, has been and where it is going.

Kim Cooper

http://artwalk2009.wordpress.c... November 9, 2009, founding non-profit director Richard Schave (my husband) and I stepped down from the board of the non-profit we had founded, due to false attacks on our competence and credibility from Russell Brown, the Executive Director of the neighborhood's landlord's organization (HCBID) and then-President of the Downtown LA Neighborhood Council (DLANC), and the troubles that Mr. Brown's attacks had created within the board. The policy document, although unanimously approved by the board, disappeared from the Art Walk website soon after we stepped down, as did the event's Mission Statement. We are unaware of any policy documents or Mission Statement which have replaced them.We hope that this lengthy document, the result of ten months of feedback from the downtown community and research into the management of similar happenings nationwide, will be of use to the Art Walk Task Force as they seek to determine where this important event, held in the public trust, has been and where it is going.

Happycow_m00

To limit the reason people come to artwalk seems to shot L.A in its own foot. Who is the Council member suggesting this btw? I mean this Coca guy is just a spokesperson. Time to get involved with City Politics. No strong arming of the LAPD and their fear tactic. An accident happen and the rules for the most part were being followed. How is what they are proposing supposed to make it safer? Hmmm Close down the streets to CARS!!! period......Run the TRAINS LATER!!! simple...safer nobody gets run over and killed by pedestrians. If people want to do the Bars so what they wouldn't be driving therefore what's the harm..Jeez have imagination not DArk Ages kinds of approaches.

Biteme

Is it wrong to be there just to get fucked up? I've enjoyed the walk solely on the fact that there's bars and booze, I don't give a fuck about art, and so what? Art is boring. Is it any different from bar hoping? No not really. Is it safe to sober up with food and catch the train back? yes duh!

Dont F with the Art Walk!!!!

FEVERYONE

Rick Coca:"......people who are there more for the street fair atmosphere. We have to look at ways to control that."

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU "COCA" you councilmember spokesman sack of feces

lets look at more ways to control YOU AND YOUR POS OWNERS YOU FUCKING TRAINED LEASH DOG PIE?CE OF GARBAGE FUCK THE COUNCIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FUCK THESE SCUMLORD POLITICIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!A FREAK ACCIDENTOH GEEMAYBE THE BITCH SHOULD HAVE KEPT HER BABYAWAY FROM FUCKING VEHICULAR TRAFFIC JUST A THOUGHFUCK EVERYONENOW EVERYONE HAS TO SUFFERBECAUSE OF A JACKASS DRIVER WHO SHOULD LOSE THEIR LICENSEAND A STUPID MOTHER WHO SHOULD NOT BE HAVING MORE KIDSAND LASTLY THE SHITHOLES OF ALL SHITHOLESLA POLS WHO WANT TO CONTROLEVERYTHINGFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

COCA

Nando

Feveryone, 1) you probably don't have kids so you can't relate to her loss (if you do, so much for your role model approach to this) 2) how is it her fault? She was WALKINg on the sideWALK, which the name is self-explanatory.I share some of your sentiment as far as L.A. political incompetence but you're starting to sound like a d-bag when you just start spewing nonsense. Enough of your attention-whoring tactics.

anon

I sympathize with the mother because I am one too. However, a 2 month old should not have been outside at an art walk event at 9:30pm!! I'm sorry, but that kid doesn't even have all the proper shots to be out among other people risking the chance of catching something that he can't fight off on his own yet. This was a freak accident but one that could have been prevented. The positive is that at least this will force some sort of regulation on this event that seems to be getting out of hand.

FEVERYONE

UR RIGHT I CANNOT RELATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CAUSE IM NEVER HAVING KIDS FUCK THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THINK THE WORLD ISNT OVERFUCKING POPULATED ENOUGH AS IT IS HMMMM???>>>WHORING EH TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE EH GIRLFRIEND WHOOYEAHYOU KNOW I DIDNTT MEASUTRE THE DISTANCE FROM STROLLER TO CURB SO SORRYBUT DAMN STRAIGHT MY OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS WOULDVE A. NEVER TAKEN ME TO A PLACE LIKE THAT AT THE AGE TO BEGIN WITHB. IFFFFFFF IT CAME TO IT< KEPT US AS FAR FROM PARKING CARS AS POSSIBLEWHEN WALKING IN PARKINGLOTS MY DAD STILL DOES IT TO ME!!!!! WARN ME TO STAY AWAY FROM BACKING VEHICLES AT ALL TIMESIT IS CALLED COMMON SENSE BIATCHSOMETHING THIS GRIEVING MOTHER LIKELY LACKSBUT I AINT MAD AT HER, NOT REaLLY< ITS THE HO BAGS SACKS OF SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIN POSITIONS OF "POWER"'THEIR HEGEMONIC REIGNS WILL ALL COME CRASHING DOWN SOON THOUGH LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL SOME OF USWON'T FORGET WHO THEY ARTE IF THIS CUNT COCA ASKS ME FOR SOME RICE OR WATER POST SHTFILL SAY NO BITCH GET OFF MY LAWN FORE I PERFORATE YOUR EMACIATED FORMERLY DICTATORIAL ASSGO CRAWL OFF AND SLOWLY DIE ELSEWHERETHATS WHAT I WOULD TELL THIS CORRUPT BITCH AND ALL HIS CRONY COHORTS

FEVERYONE

"You are truly an idiot in every sense of the word. "

OH YOU YA SILLY FUCK HEHE HEY I SEE YOUR SIMPLETON LOGIC THERE, NICE ONE OH GOOD AD HOMINEM CARD, HEY BUTTFUCK I RAISE YOU ONE YA DISEASED PRO-BIG GOVERNMENT PRO-BREEDING ADDS-NOTHING TO THE TABLE SACK OF EXCREMENT

You'reAnIdiot

You are truly an idiot in every sense of the word.

drops1

Yey More Regulation!!

So a freak acciedent happens, no alcohol is involve and the City/Police sweep in to the rescue.If the people of L.A want to have a Mardi Grass let them! DTLA is now awesome.Nokia CenterMAYBE New Football StadiumAnd Montly Partis?

=Money spent everywhere,and everyone gets to have fun,its like L.A is having a transformation and OLD (get off the lawn) Type people want to stop it?