Art features goal statement

Template for developing art features in each issues, based on Vol 23, Number 2, "A People's Green New Deal."

Overarching visual content goal

Improve the accessibility of SftP’s work by harnessing visual content to engage readers, demonstrate concepts, and diversify both the range of voices and cultural modes represented by the publication.

Volume 23 No. 2 – A People’s Green New Deal

Vision

Through a set of two to four art features in the “People’s Green New Deal” issue of the magazine, SftP aims to (1) highlight creative responses to relevant political context and (2) demonstrate anti-colonialist curatorial sensibilities by seeking and accepting work that is traditionally sidelined from mainstream discourse and the contemporary art market. In support of the latter goal, SftP should leverage potential partner organizations with relevant expertise such as the Shipibo Conibo Center and others. The “People’s Green New Deal” issue will feature artwork that is consistent with the theme as described on the Submissions page of SftP’s website.

For this issue, SftP aims to capture a diversity of media across four features. Ideally, the issue will include one feature each of four of the following categories of artwork:

1. Embedded or distributable work of art (e.g, zine, manifesto, flyer);

2. Painting, drawing, or sculpture;

3. Photographic essay;

4. Documentation of an installation or performance;

5. Other.

For Vol 23 No 2, art features should be optimized for print and about 6–14 pages should be reserved for art features in the printed copy.

Timeline

Italicized dates are “at latest”

• Issue arts vision complete: January 22

• Shortlist of artists complete, longlist in process: January 31

• SftP arts editors assigned: February 5

• Outreach period: February 5–April 1

• SftP editors work with artists, organizations, and collectives: February 5–June 5

• All art features in the design stage: May 15

• All features complete: June 5

Shortlist (4-8 pages total)

Updated 2/16/2020

1. David Opdyke

   1. To be included as cover art or as a 1-2 page art feature (embedded work of art);

2. Beehive Collective – The True Cost of Coal

   1. To be included as a 2-page art feature (drawing). Suggest positioning the work before Patton & Myers, Appalachia & Just Transition;

3. Feature on Shan Goshorn (active 1975-2018)

   1. “I consider myself an artist who chooses the medium that best expresses a statement, usually one that addresses human rights issues, especially those that affect native people,” she wrote on her website.

      1. Ms. Goshorn was most known for her imaginative basket-weaving. She often integrated photographs into her basketry, in some instances obtained by crowd-sourcing: Native Americans around the country would contribute images. Other baskets might incorporate strips of paper or plastic with text printed onto them from treaties and compacts with the federal government, or from historic maps or speeches. Some baskets took creative shapes — a briefcase, for example, or an open flame.

   2. http://firstamericanartmagazine.com/shan-goshorn-walks-on/

   3. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/obituaries/shan-goshorn-dead.html

   4. http://firstamericanartmagazine.com/shan-goshorn-walks-on/

   5. 2-4 pages

   6. Length of piece and extent of written component will depend on page availability for art features in the issue, since page count for art features was not confirmed beforehand. If space, it would be great to have an arts writer include about one page of writing spread over a four-page feature.

Longlist

1. Climate Justice in Print (2020)

   1. https://interferencearchive.org/like-the-waters-we-rise-climate-justice-in-print/

   2. 4 pages;

   3. Mainly scanned documentation of the exhibition;

2. Amanda Leigh Evans Brian Oakes

Aymar Ccopacatty Gema Ruperez

Artist compensation

Largely symbolic: $50 per feature

Total issue cost: up to $200

Artist/organization/collective lists

Please add your initials in capitals to support inclusion in the shortlist and lowercase to support inclusion in the longlist, and an asterisk to indicate a personal contact:

• Shipibo Conibo Center (most likely categories 1 or 5) – AC*

• Jim Denomie, Standing Rock Paintings – AC

• Institute of Queer Ecology (most likely 2 or 4) – ac*

• Mil Mundos (most likely 1 or 5) – ac*

• The Museum Of Natural History (a group which collaborated with SftP in the past) - fm

• Climate Justice in print (exhibition organized by the Interference Archives) - fm

• Shan Goshorn -- AC

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/obituaries/shan-goshorn-dead.html

  • Maybe a survey? Would need a committed editor.

• Amy Balkin -- AC*

  • A People’s Archive

  • Public Smog

  • Something else?

https://hyperallergic.com/482973/jim-denomie-standing-rock-paintings-bockley-gallery/

https://galan.in/