Community Supported Art Writing (CSAW)
Directly support the writing you want to read.
The challenge:
1. You want to fill your brain with endless beautiful, brilliant thoughts about West Coast art
2. We need to pay writers and our bills but our budget covers only $150/month in writers fees
3. Instead of waiting for our editorial schedule, you want to support content by funding it directly
The solution:
Community Supported Art Writing (CSAW)
How it works:
1. We accept a pitch from one of our genius writers
2. We post the pitch, writer bio, and associated cost on this page (see below)
3. Art lovers can directly fund the content they want to read about
4. Once we reach out minimum budget, the content will move to production and taken off this page
5. Supporters will be thanked on the published page, because you’re our heroes
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If you’re someone who directly benefits from coverage or scholarship about an artist or exhibition (e.g. a gallery, museum, press person, etc.) you may not give more than $100 to any one topic.
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CSAW content you can support:
Cost: $300
Writer: $150
Admin: $150
Writer: Amelia Rina
Pitch: After Yellow, Green: Savage Sauvage Salvaje focuses on and confronts the racialized, impero-colonial view which correlates Blackness and Indigeneity with ‘savagery’, with the forest, the land, the jungle. This work confronts this position and its violent applications while also arguing that this conflation led to a rupture with ’the world’ in support of extractive practices that have both harmed our environment and countless human and non-human lives through climate change and the dual inventions of class and race. This work operates within multiple timelines, past and future, and approaches ‘wilderness’ as a collaborator in revolt and rejoicing. Stemming from histories of cimarrones and indigenous people sheltering and organizing from within forests across the Caribbean, the Americas, and ultimately, globally, this work combines first person historical accounts, poetry, contemporary voices from the zeitgeist (TV, Internet, radio), and original text in a minimally intervened-upon landscape.
Related date and/or exhibition: TKTKTK
Cost: $300
Writer: $150
Admin: $150
Writer: Amelia Rina
Pitch: After Yellow, Green: Savage Sauvage Salvaje focuses on and confronts the racialized, impero-colonial view which correlates Blackness and Indigeneity with ‘savagery’, with the forest, the land, the jungle. This work confronts this position and its violent applications while also arguing that this conflation led to a rupture with ’the world’ in support of extractive practices that have both harmed our environment and countless human and non-human lives through climate change and the dual inventions of class and race. This work operates within multiple timelines, past and future, and approaches ‘wilderness’ as a collaborator in revolt and rejoicing. Stemming from histories of cimarrones and indigenous people sheltering and organizing from within forests across the Caribbean, the Americas, and ultimately, globally, this work combines first person historical accounts, poetry, contemporary voices from the zeitgeist (TV, Internet, radio), and original text in a minimally intervened-upon landscape.
Related date and/or exhibition: TKTKTK