Publications
Our publications experiment with format, cost, and distribution to get black arts discourse to as many people as possible.
Special Edition - Current Resident
Undoing Time
In Fall ‘25 we we embedded Emily Mulenga’s piece The Time is Now in online ad spaces throughout Seattle. We love the internet but we also love print projects that people can hold on to, so we commissioned ruth gebreyesus to write about Mulenga’s work.
Undoing Time begins with the fact that “It’s unclear if the clocks [in Mulenga’s piece] are counting up or down to zero,” and ruminates on the existential urgencies of the present. Her writing is interspersed with images of artists’ work, photographs of protests, cartoon stills, political posters, and more. The publication’s bright yellow paper reflects the cartoon styling’s of Mulenga’s work and makes the publication as visually alive as the work it responds to.
The project was designed by Zoë Pulley and edited by Jessica Lynne. It was printed on Neenah ASTROBRIGHTS® Papers at Girlie Press in Seattle.
Arts Criticism Newsletter
The Brief
Our quarterly newsletter is devoted to brief, unpretentious arts writing that makes you feel again.
We commission arts writers to ruminate on black art from around the world, focusing on formal analysis, conceptual wandering, critical takes, and dropping readers into hyperlocal art scenes. The writing is fast, punchy, and free.
Annual Journal
A Year in Black Art
Our annual journal features writing done by Arts Writing Incubator participants and our guests and collaborators. For many years, the journal was edited by our Executive Director; later, we extended invitations to guest editors. The journal is currently edited by our very own Jessica Lynne.
Free PDF copies of the journal can be accessed on our website, and hard copies of the journal are dropped at locations throughout Seattle for free—part of our mission to make black arts discourse available and accessible to as many people as possible.