Antelope Magazine

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Over the past year, Meghan McGrath and I have been working on launching  a new literary magazine called the Antelope Magazine: A Journal of Oral Histories and Mayhem. It's based on  Suzanne Briet’s “What is Documentation?” (1951) where she expands the notion of what a document can be. She uses an antelope as an example: it can be photographed, drawn, recorded and taxidermied when it dies. The antelope is a document.

The Antelope Magazine is attempting to provide a diversity of mediums in honor of this idea. The magazine's inaugural theme is Flight. We have oral histories with beekeepers, pilots, drone enthusiasts, interviews with ecologists, photographs of aerialists and hot air balloons, cartoons about evil birds, and much more. 

This is a labor of love of Meghan and me. We are doing this to spread great new work out there. We are committed to paying our contributors for their incredible work. We have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help pay for the printing costs and compensation. If you are interested and able, I am asking if you would be willing to support this new endeavor. Or if you can spread the word with your networks. Or both!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1943130585/the-antelope

Thanks for everything! We can't wait to share the Antelope Magazine with you all.

Afterparty: A Community Guide for the Future

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If you are someone who really loves Kickstarter and supporting artistic endevours, I have project for you. It's called Afterparty: A Community Guide for the Future, an artist's book with recipes by Anne Elizabeth Moore, culture critic, zinester, and participant of the project. There's only about 15 or so days left and the campaign has a ways to go.

A description of the project: "Afterparty: A Community Guide for the Future is an artist’s book project that plays on the edge of realism and the visionary. How do we survive the challenges that lie ahead when confronted with the epidemic of autoimmune disease? By melding together fiction and recipes through the medium of an artist’s book, we hope to challenge creative formats and investigate important issues creatively.

"Proposed is a 24-page (estimated page count) sculptural board book featuring recipes that accommodate the heightened food sensitivities that often come with autoimmune disease. Embedded within the cookbook will be a smaller book featuring Anne Elizabeth Moore’s first published work of science fiction. The package is intended to act as a welcoming guidebook to our collective imperfect future."

I think this is a really interesting project tackling an uncommon problem and I want to see it supported and published. Putting money where my mouth is.

Find out more here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sonnenzimmer/afterparty-a-community-guide-for-the-future

After all, we should Support Women Artists Now (SWAN). Or if you can't, help spread the word!