About:
“The Artbeat of the City” is an ethnographic documentary series by Mary Anne Funk about the lives of street artists living on the fringe of survival, in Portland, Oregon. The series begins with six street artists who were strangers connected by a city in which they performed, by their economic hardships, and their common experiences of living off their music and art on the street. The first part of the series will address such issues as loneliness, poverty, rules to play by, community support, survival and the universal circumstances that could beset anyone of us.
