art nowhere mag

I just realized that a project I conceived of in January is now coming together in December. Well, I guess with the year that I’ve had that doesn’t surprise me!

The project is Art Nowhere Magazine, a print publication that I aim to have out in the Winter 2011.

adam koenig

The publication will explore art that falls outside of the mainstream. Art, writing, design, craft, performance, etc. that isn’t covered by the major publications and websites. You will find the different and truly unique, not the same old trendy thing.

Our goal is to break stereotypes about the arts, notably the location issue (i.e. If  you don’t live and/or are not showing in a major metropolitan area, you are not an important artist).

This magazine will be a must read for those interested in what’s happening right now under the radar in contemporary art.

We will be posting content on the Art Nowhere website, so check back, bookmark it, and subscribe to our feed to be the first to join in on the conversation. Also stay updated on Facebook.

We are accepting submissions from artists, writers, etc. Click here for more info.

If you have an arts opportunity such as a “call for artists”, e-mail me at sarah@theeclipsegallery.com and we will publish it in our Opportunities section for free.

We will be picking and choosing a few, select advertisers for the magazine. One of our goals is to make our advertising opportunities for artists and arts organizations affordable. We have a basic listing available for artists for only $5 per issue. See all the advertising options here.

So, artist friends, let me know if you have a contribution to make–could be an image, poem, essay, etc. All contributors get a free copy of the magazine and a link on the website. Email me at sarah@theeclipsegallery.com

The only way that the arts we love can survive is by supporting them. This means buying handmade, going to local art shows/performances, and supporting independent publications like this one, among other things.

Thanks!

Bukowski on Writing (and should also be applied to art)

So You Want To Be A Writer

Charles Bukowski

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if you’re doing it because you want women in your bed, don’t do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don’t do it. if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it, don’t do it. if you’re trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you’re not ready. don’t be like so many writers, don’t be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don’t be dull and boring and pretentious, don’t be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don’t add to that. don’t do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was. Personally, I feel the same goes for art and artists!!!!!