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May 2026 · 4 min read
By Dionna Collins, Founder & CEO
After nine years of building ComfiArt, Dionna Collins shares the conviction that drives everything: the difference between decorating the creative economy and actually building its foundation.
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Most cities treat public art as decoration applied after all the real decisions have been made. Here's what it looks like when art is treated as infrastructure instead.
There's a difference between borrowing from culture and investing in it. Most brand partnerships do the former and call it the latter. Here's how to tell the difference — and how to get it right.
The biggest threat to creative careers isn't a lack of talent. Every city is full of extraordinarily talented artists who are struggling. The threat is a lack of infrastructure.
Every city has neighborhoods that visitors can't find and locals can't explain. This isn't a design problem. It's a cultural infrastructure problem.
Pricing forces artists to confront something they've been told their whole lives: that their work isn't worth very much. The starving artist myth is harmful, false, and needs to die.
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