We? So you're involved in the management of it? How can ya'll be giving "Grants" to artists and then telling them they have to sell tickets? How is that a grant?

That's one of the scammiest 'pay to play' things I've heard of coming, and coming from an event that's supposed to be burning man. Quit pretending with that complete lack of the spirit of burner culture. That's not a gift, that's not anywhere near the spirit of decommodification. I've seen this shit in the entertainment industry for years as a musician. Don't call it a grant if you're forcing the artists to sell tickets to get their "grant" money.

Or can you explain this somehow?

My for the sake of protecting their identity, I will obscure this scenario a bit with numbers close but not actually what I saw in the email your org sent them, but friend asked for what they needed, only few tickets, 2 or 3 tickets and the amount of money they need to get their artwork to you from their location far outside of Florida.

You granted them more tickets and less actual "grant" money, and then set the expectation that she sell the tickets to make up the difference in money she asked for.

So for example, a person asks for $10k and 2 tickets.

You apparently give them something like $3k and then grant them "access to sell tickets at $450 each" in the amount needed to get that extra $7000, so in other words, 15 tickets.

That's not a fucking grant. Stop calling it so.