Winter 19 Letter from All the Art

Hank Willis Thomas, For Freedoms Billboard, (photo credit: Richard Reilly)

At least one contributor responded to our call for content around the theme “Art and Social Change” by asking if that is not always our theme. Fair. Even artists who commit their practices to closing out the world around them, stripping the politics and the problems of humanity from their painted canvases and sculptural installations, seek to share the objects they have made. They strive to explicate and illuminate our experiences of this life. The hieroglyphics of the human comedy/tragedy become readable when deciphered by your neighbor artists.

It’s hard to find an artist who isn’t doing something that ties to their sense of an ideal. With that in mind, we are proud to again offer you an array of art stories.

This Spring, we request, from all of you who heed the call to participate and write for us, news of “Art School.” As always, the theme of the season is as wide as you make it. Do with it what you will.

You will see in our advertisement section in the end pages a call to participate in All the Art’s brand new MEMBERSHIP program. We are putting it in bold lettering because this is a bold move to strengthen our support as our volunteer editors and distributors work to get All the Art to ALL the people. It ain’t easy to gather the funds to run the 10,000 copies we spread to 32 zip codes in Missouri and Illinois each quarter. Ad revenue helps cut our print costs and we have benefited from grants toward paying contributors tiny stipends for their tremendous work. But most of our funding comes from individual donations -

That’s where you come in! Become a member of All the Art and we will mail a copy of each issue to your address. You will also be invited to special member events as they occur. Membership is easy. Rates begin at $55 per household, but your good feeling only increases with the amount you give. Since we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, contributions to our operating fund are tax deductible. Go to our website to begin your membership now: www.AlltheArtStL.com

All the Best,

Sarah Hermes Griesbach

Sukanya Mani