{"id":48,"date":"2008-06-17T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeforged.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/06\/17\/artists-contact-your-representative\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:13:00","slug":"artists-contact-your-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/2008\/06\/17\/artists-contact-your-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists: contact your representative!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">There is currently a bill in Congress to change the way tax deductions for donated artwork work. Currently, if you donate a work of art to a museum, library, or other non-profit organization, you can only deduct the value of the <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family: georgia\">materials.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"> That means that the 40 hours you spent with planning, construction, tweaking those details etc. are not compensated when you donate it. If you&#8217;re an established artist with a high going value for your work, that doesn&#8217;t matter. Only the materials can be deducted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">This bill will change that so that the fair market value is able to be deducted. This would make it  feasible for artists to donate their work to non-profit institutions, so that the public would get a better chance at seeing them. If you&#8217;re an artist, you know an artist or you just like art, you should contact your representative and encourage them to support H.R. 1524. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/artsusa\/issues\/bills\/?bill=9680576\">Advocate for the Arts<\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"> website has a handy little form that you can simply enter your e-mail address, name and such and will send a e-mail to them automatically with your name attached. It&#8217;s very easy to use and only takes a minute.  I&#8217;ve already done so myself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently a bill in Congress to change the way tax deductions for donated artwork work. Currently, if you donate a work of art to a museum, library, or other non-profit organization, you can only deduct the value of the materials. That means that the 40 hours you spent with planning, construction, tweaking those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/freeforged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}