The World Assembly,
Applauding the rich artistic traditions of the World Assembly’s diverse multitude of member states,
Concerned, however, that cultural divides and a lack of international cooperation often lead to a lack of multicultural artistic knowledge,
Wishing to educate and inspire a new generation of artists among WA citizens by creating a public gallery of artwork from member states of all sizes, cultures, and histories,
Hereby:
Establishes the Artistic Retention Trusteeship (ART) with the task of creating, maintaining, and expanding two galleries:
- The Publicly Available International Net Treasury (PAINT), a public and easily available online repository with the purpose of documenting the artwork of member states. The ART must:
- Visit the public museums and galleries of all consenting member nations to photograph, audio/videotape, or otherwise record a digital display of all exhibited artworks within, except when:
- a nation would present a direct or indirect danger to any dispatched photographers or historians.
- Photographing or otherwise recording the artwork would damage or degrade the quality of the piece.
- Research and compose, to the best of their ability, a short historical or contextual explanation of each recorded artwork for study thereof.
- Publish all digital artwork displays on the PAINT website alongside any research done on the histories of the artworks.
- Establish an onsite channel for reporting mistakes done in research or origins of any artworks; All such reports must be investigated and changed accordingly.
- Ensure effective and adequate organization and working order of the PAINT, including searchable labelling of artwork by nation, artist, time period, collection, and any other labels deemed relevant by the ART.
- The Public Institution for the Exhibition of Craft Expertise (PIECE), a physical gallery with the purpose of presenting the greatest masterpieces of each member nation:
- The Office of Building Management must allocate a sufficiently accessible (to as many WA nations as possible) and sizable portion of land within international World Assembly territory for the purposes of building the PIECE.
- The ART must:
- Build and maintain the PIECE, accommodating adequate space for the volume of donated artworks and providing additional ability to expand as necessary for future donations to the gallery.
- Establish a system of outgoing loans with member state governments wherein governments may loan up to two pieces of artwork to the PIECE for a period of 3 years, choosing at the end of that period to either renew the loans on those pieces of artwork, exchange them with other pieces, or remove them entirely.
- Ensure that all artworks being loaned to the gallery are of a reasonable size, moral decency, and have not been illegally or immorally sourced. Additionally, to the best of its ability, consent must be ascertained by any living artists or creators of works being loaned to the PIECE.
- Conserve all active artworks in the PIECE, ensuring they are not damaged or altered during their time in the PIECE. If a piece becomes impossible to conserve for any reason, ART may cancel the outgoing loan and request another artwork from the originating nation.
- Create caption cards for all submitted artworks based on any information provided by donating member states, making sure to include the artists and countries of origin.
Encourages member states to expand artistic study programs to include foreign artwork and artistic technique as well as student exchange programs to other WA member states.
