Vinny Eden Ortega
Rethinking New York: A Case for the Midwest
For decades, young artists of all kinds from suburban America have been fed a romanticized image of New York past. Where you could arrive with a hundred dollars, a bag of your favorite books, t-shirts, and maybe a few mementos of home. You would find a cheap apartment with other hungry young artists (of course all visionaries like yourself), drop your resume at several storefronts until you found a job, and soon enough be brushing shoulders with iconic artists and undiscovere