[waru]

Giving the artist money and maybe introducing them to people in the art world would be great, but what would the Y Combinator of art do in place of the start-up bootcamp for three months? What would artist bootcamp be?

I think it would be pretty difficult to come up with some kind of three month course to improve the quality of your art (that is as productive as what happens in the real YC), but you could teach artists how to market themselves, I guess. Lots of artists aren't good at that.

I think it would work for artists interested in working commercially, to help them get skills for whatever field they wanna go into, learning how to market themselves, and getting connections. For fine artists who just want to show their stuff in galleries and museums, I don't know how useful it would be, besides the money.

What were you imagining for the "YC of art"?

[jamesbritt]

    What were you imagining for the "YC of art"?

I don't quite know :)

Seeing that comparison made me start wondering what that might be, something that perhaps wasn't revenue focused but operated towards some other metric, but for art. Perhaps finding, filtering, prepping artists, ... don't quite know.

And maybe there is a business model there, but I was more thinking along the lines of, "Y Combinator is to start-ups as [_______] is to art."