cultural workers and becoming
Hi,
This summer I’ve been working on telling the story of the work I do in the world. In a few weeks I’ll be teaching a class about this and how artists can tell that story to raise money for artists.
It’s funny because as I work on it for myself I have this feeling that I am reaching out for language that doesn’t exactly exist. I wonder about how we describe ourselves to each other in ways that let us be seen as becoming, unfolding, and totally whole all at once.
Which leads me to today, and an ask. I am interested in what cultural workers do over the course of lifetimes. I think the way we know each others stories are a set of threads that allow us to at moments glimpse the web of the person, the community, the idea. This long-term ongoing commitment allows for depth, subtlety, and development. It allows for the a maturation of ideas to become and for you to know them as they do.
So with that, I invite you to be a paid subscriber to this newsletter as a place to hold witness. To get to be a part of that lifting up of cultural work.
I will do my part of showing up, by writing, by making, by imagining and sharing that with you often. I think this work of patronage is one to take seriously. I know I do. I am actively looking for ways to support the emergence and continuation of work in the world that matters to me. For those of you who do subscribe you will have access to offerings accessible just to you.
Who are the cultural workers, the artists, the cooks, the poets, the instigators in your life? Where and how do you support them? Especially now in this changing world, what and how can we find ways to continue to imagine and create?
Xo,
C