PHONEBOOK 4 – Artist-Run Directory as Archive
PHONEBOOK 4
PHONEBOOK is a directory of independent and noncommercial art spaces, programming and projects throughout the United States and a collections of critical essays and practical information by the people who run them. PHONEBOOK 4 includes listings of hundreds of artist-run spaces, event series, unconventional residencies, alternative schools, and community resources; all the projects that form and support art ecologies across the nation, as well as critical reflections of their activities. The book acts as an archive of artist-run activity as well as a guidebook to communities across the nation, and is an essential resource for artists, organizers, art historians, and art audiences today. PHONEBOOK has been published by Threewalls since 2006.
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MISSION
Common Field connects, supports and advocates for the artist-centered field by providing a network for independent arts organizations and organizers.
ABOUT
Common Field is a national network of independent visual arts organizations and organizers that connects, supports, and advocates for the artist-centered field. Founded in 2013 and launched in 2015, the Common Field network has 700+ members across 43 states. Programs include national convenings, grants, research, resources, forums, meet-ups and advocacy. Our vision is to increase understanding, involvement and knowledge of artists organizations and their value, and increase their capacity through national connectivity, dialog understanding and support.
Common Field’s network includes contemporary, experimental, noncommercial artist-centric organizations and organizers including alternative art spaces, publications, digital exhibition venues, residencies, platforms, collectives, collaboratives, and individual organizers. These projects and spaces provide interdisciplinary and hybrid forms for art production, reception, and exchange. They generate independent, responsive, grassroots, artist-centered cultures. They support artists, connect artists with the public in intimate, experimental, and generative ways, and they are deeply involved in the shape and characters of the contexts where they work. Our members stimulate ideas, imagination, and innovation in their communities.
GOALS
- Creating broad public visibility for artist organizations and organizers
- Articulating the common practices and values of visual arts organizing
- Sharing histories and stories of the field
- Facilitating forums for convening, peer-to-peer knowledge, and exchange across geographies and communities
- Providing platforms for resources, tools, and advocacy
- Demonstrating responsive, diverse, and accessible approaches to creative production
