What is ARTORBUST, INC.?
Art first, I wake up thrown into this incubator; my art heals my pain, my shame, my being-in-the-world, my being-with-others. The journey – multiple, no longer binary, complex, layered, permeable, interconnected – will uncover through events and experiences that I got soul – WE ALL GOT SOUL!!!! ARTORBUST, INC. is a work-in-progress, an event – energy. ARTORBUST, INC. wants to create sustainable jobs for people at-risk and in need through the arts, specifically: publishing, bookbinding, music, and multi-modal visual arts.
Why a corporation?
Money – so much is in the media about corporate greed, deception, and evil that the dream is for ARTORBUST, INC. to be a honest corporation, that provides shareholders with meaning and pride of ownership in a sustainable, earth-friendly, peace-loving way as a creative model for future entrepreneurship, worker-owned business, healthy capitalism, creative entrepreneurship, and the greater good.
Can ARTORBUST, INC. guarantee dividends and a return-on-investment comparable to the corporations started by magnates such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
Nope and never, but we can promise to deliver ambition and hope for a better future on a much smaller scale. When you become an investor in ARTORBUST, INC. you will be invited to the annual shareholders event to help plan the course of action for the upcoming fiscal year, you will be invited to become involved in a corporation that wants to care, you will even get a dividend check…. or the bust part…
How will ARTORBUST, INC. make any money and/or create any jobs?
ARTORBUST, INC. officially incorporated with the Maine Secretary of State in 2009; however, its true birth began a decade earlier when the founder and CEO, Russell Ouellett, started making books by hand. What he now knows (but didn’t then) is that this unconscious drive to make books was a way for him to cope with the trauma and the existential angst of his own life, upbringing, and culture. Over this decade Mr. Ouellett has sold over one hundred of these books, sometimes commanding prices as high as $300 for a single tome. The basic business plan for 2010 is to make some books, sell them, and then make some more. In actuality the plan is much more complicated, but is not developed enough to share at this current time. Stick around, it will become more clear.
Who is Russell Ouellett?
He is a book foraging, metaphor masticating, dream metabolizing man of action; he is a graduate of parochial high school, a large state university with a BA in English, and now in his last year of a MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. He works full-time as a licensed alcohol and drug counselor in a year long adolescent residential substance abuse treatment facility. And if that wasn’t enough, he is a new father and proud husband.
What is the A.I.R.V. III?
This officially stands for Artist-In-Residence Vehicle the Third because this is the third motor home that Mr. Ouellett has had the opportunity to utilize as his personal art studio. The latest incarnation suitably named, A.I.R.V. III, is currently in the remodeling phase and is not a working art studio. Sometime in the summer of 2010 the A.I.R.V. III will be finished. It will include a bookbindery, publishing imprint, and screen printing studio. This is a very exciting project for ARTORBUST, INC. and more information will be available as this project writhes free from the tediousness of renovation into the excitement of art making. Through this project ARTORBUST, INC. is hopeful that the mission can start to move from an attention seeking prank to a real business with value.
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