Art Papers
| Editor | Victoria Camblin |
|---|---|
| Categories | Art magazines |
| Frequency | bimonthly |
| Circulation | 180,000 annually |
| First issue | February 1977 |
| Company | n/a |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | artpapers.org |
| ISSN | 0278-1441 |
Publication
Art Papers is an independent critical voice covering contemporary art and culture in the world today. An Atlanta-based nonprofit organization, ART PAPERS provides an accessible forum for examining, discussing, and documenting the full spectrum of contemporary art and culture, as well as the ways they affect and reflect our lives. They do so in print, online, and through public programming.
It is published bimonthly.
History
ART PAPERS magazine evolved from an in-house newsletter distributed to members of the Atlanta Art Workers Coalition (AAWC), a non-profit artists' rights organization founded by artists Santo Bruno and Victoria Bugbee in 1975. Julia Fenton, the organization's first director, and Dan R. Talley, the organization's gallery curator, worked with Bugbee and Bruno to expand the newsletter and widened its distribution beyond the AAWC membership, adopting a tabloid format as The Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Newspaper in 1978. Fenton left AAWC after the first issue of the newspaper and writer Laura Lieberman became its editor-in-chief. In order to establish an independent editorial voice for the visual arts in Atlanta, Lieberman and Talley established a separate non-profit organization, Atlanta Art Papers, Inc., and its new publication, Atlanta Art Papers, began publication in 1980. It became ART PAPERS in 1981 after absorbing Contemporary Arts Southeast (CA/SE), a regional magazine founded by Atlanta gallerist David C. Heath in 1975 with Fenton as its founding editor. After she left CA/SE to work for AAWC, Linda Hyman served as editor of CA/SE and Annette Cone-Skelton as managing editor; Cone-Skelton co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2000. Talley left Art Papers in 1982, and Lieberman continued as editor until 1984. Following its founding editors’ departures, many Atlanta art community leaders served as ART PAPERS editors including Xenia Zed (1984-1986), writer and editor Glenn Harper (1986-1996) (he later edited Sculpture magazine), Ruth Resnicow (1997), Michael Pittari (1997-2001), Christ Reeve (2001-2004), and Sylvie Fortin (2004-2012) before its current editor Victoria Camblin assumed the position of editor and artistic director in 2012 with Saskia Benjamin as executive director. In 2007, ART PAPERS received a $110,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and was cited for Best Arts/Literary Coverage by The Utne Independent Press Awards.