Artist $napshot: L.A.-based poet and content creator
In the next installment of the Artist Pay Project, an artist who left their job at a nonprofit theater to focus full time on art and content creation
Makeda Easter
76 posts
Artist $napshot: Detroit-based installation artist and fabricator
In the next installment of the Artist Pay Project, an artist who makes between $13,000 and $20,000 a year
Artist $napshot: Columbus-based textile artist and teacher
It’s really important to talk about money and art. So many factors go into my being able to be a working artist
The young artist building their cooperative arts space in L.A.
What does it take to get an arts space off the ground? B Munro Thompson shares their vision for DIY Museum
The veteran stripper fighting for workers' rights
This interview was originally published in August 2022. A gifted pole dancer, NatsHoney began working in clubs in the early 2000s. She declared herself an artist early, “a stripper artist,” about two years after she started working. Dancing “feels like a magical connection performing for others. It feels like, other
NatsHoney documentary: The veteran stripper and pole artist fighting for worker rights
NatsHoney began dancing in clubs in the early 2000s and is now part of a network of strippers and sex workers across California demanding power and visibility
How artist Basil Kincaid made their most ambitious and transformative work yet
With little institutional support for the arts in St. Louis, Basil had to create their own opportunities to break into the art world establishment
Diversifying the bell tower
Composer and performer Dr. Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra is on a mission to uplift the stories of people of color through the carillon, the most public keyboard instrument
Introducing the Artist Pay Project
The Artist Pay Project is a series exploring how artists in the U.S. survive and thrive amid a cost of living crisis