Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>
To: ██████ , ███████ (PCH) <████████████████████████ >
Cc: Director - Forest City Gallery <director@forestcitygallery.com>, The Employee <employee@forestcitygallery.com>
Dear Valerie,
Camille forwarded me an email wherein you had some questions about her role in relation to mine and the Forest City Gallery. I am a practicing Canadian contemporary artist. My work examines, among other things, the value of cultural labour. In this pursuit, I devised The Employee as a project whereby I have, with arts funding from the Canada Council, hired an employee to augment the workforce of the Forest City Gallery, which otherwise only affords a single staff-member. As my employee, Camille's job is to increase the financial support of the gallery, which includes grant-writing and undertaking efforts to move the gallery from its current location. While the project is intended to make these underlying precarious funding preconditions visible, the project is a sincere effort to support the gallery, and as such, Camille is functioning as any other cultural worker in the pursuit of funding and financial support.
While Camille's position is unconventional, her communications with you are intended as any other cultural workers' might be: to discover more information about the application process for a Canadian Cultural Spaces grant to relocate the gallery.
I would be happy to speak with you further about the project if you have other questions.
best,
Josh