Contributors invited

After giv­ing it some thought, I’ve decided to open this site up to other com­menters on a trial basis for the rest of 2007. At the begin­ning of next year, I’ll decide whether to con­tinue in this format.

So if you are inter­ested in becom­ing a con­trib­u­tor, please let me know. I would very much appre­ci­ate your par­tic­i­pa­tion. You are wel­come to post once or often. If you already have an art blog, you would be wel­come to cross-post when that makes sense and to include links to your own site. I would only expect you to post on the gen­eral top­ics that this site has tended to explore, although if you’d like to expand into other areas of visual art, such as art crit­i­cism, mod­ern art, other paint­ing media, etc., that would be fine. This should not become a place to show­case your own art or your own busi­ness, although it would be fine to post works in progress as a means of show­ing oth­ers what you are doing and how you do it.

If you want to become a con­trib­u­tor, you’ll first need to reg­is­ter if you have not already done so. Then send me an email using the link in the side­bar. I’ll upgrade your account to “Author” sta­tus, which will allow you to post to the site. I’ll send instructions—it’s pretty easy. Posts will appear with­out first need­ing to be approved by me.

This does not mean, by the way, that I won’t be post­ing here anymore.

I’ll con­tinue to be the edi­tor here. I won’t allow com­mer­cial posts or posts that I think are mis­lead­ing. If a con­trib­u­tor is par­tic­i­pat­ing in a way that I don’t think is help­ful, I’ll politely let him or her know that it just isn’t work­ing out. I am, how­ever, quite will­ing to allow other voices than my own (as I have in com­ments since this blog started) and I expect to post com­ments rather than do any­thing intru­sive. I just want to be clear that I will take respon­si­bil­ity for this to be a site where peo­ple can go for use­ful infor­ma­tion about mak­ing art.

Thanks to every­one who has stayed with this site, posted com­ments, and sent me email about this site. I’m excited about the pos­si­bil­ity that other people’s par­tic­i­pa­tion will markedly improve All the Strange Hours.