November 18th, 2019 

PUBLIC ADDRESS TO THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF FORT MYERS, FLORIDA

I am the metaphysician and American Revolutionary Mark Cranford . I am a thirty year homeowner and citizen of Ward 4 of the  City Of Fort Myers, Florida. 

It is has been a year since I was last before the City Council of the City of Fort Myers, Florida  and it is good to be back talking to you now.

I swore myself in on my Bible last year  and I consider all my testimony as a continuation of that sworn testimony.

Last November 19th, 2018 City Council meeting I was asked off record by the City Of Fort Myers, Florida if I could establish Civil Rights for visual art, artists and art history based on art history.

Today I am presenting the formula I invented for establishing Civil Rights for visual art, artists and art history based on art history.

the formula is:

Civil Rights for art history = visual art. 

This simple formula I feel will prove to be irrefutable. I am submitting my formula as self evident truth. I believe this historic  assertion can stand as an accompaniment to the Pursuit of Happiness of the Constitution of the United States Of America.  

I pioneered inventing and submitting new conceptual art in visual art history painting through local government and through my 2016 City Of Fort Myers, Florida Art & Culture Grant and  sponsored by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and administration by the SWFL Community Foundation. The last such new form invented through a new conceptual art in visual art history painting was in 1951 and by Robert Rauschenberg.

Academia is not allowed to affirm new conceptual art or new form in visual art history painting. Academia created an impasse to affirming new art history in the historic form in visual art history painting.  

In submitting new conceptual art in visual art history painting through local government I  have shown that there is no such thing as academic freedom. 

Last November 19th, 2018 I was also told off record that my 2016 City Of Fort Myers, Florida  Art & Culture Grant and 2017 City Of Fort Myers Art and Culture Grant Recipient Exhibition and mural COLLECTIVE WE were not published because Hurricane Irma closed the City of Fort Myers Art and Culture Grant Exhibition at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center on September 1st, 2017 almost as soon as it was open. 

Last February 8th, 2019 I was made environmentalist by Jade Dellinger Director and Curator of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, Florida. 

Last July 27th, 2019 I was made part of the Robert Rauschenberg conceptual legacy and by Jade Dellinger Director and Curator of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, Florida. 

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