Impractical Spaces

We would like to introduce our partnership with Houston, Texas! The local Impractical Spaces publication is being developed there by Pete Gershon! More information to come, but check out the project description below for Houston:

"Houston emerged as a significant city for the arts in the 1970s and 1980s, a former cultural frontier transformed by the oil boom and the arrival of several catalyzing figures including sculptor James Surls. When a fire displaced the University of Houston’s art department in 1979, Surls established the Lawndale Annex in a cavernous, unsupervised warehouse located miles away from campus as one of the city’s first viable alternative art spaces. Historic venues like Lawndale, DiverseWorks, and Project Row Houses are already nationally prominent. Impractical Spaces: Houston would consolidate their histories alongside those of such lesser-known spaces as the Houston Museum of Modern Art (1974-1976); Chicano Arts Gallery (1976-1978); Studio One (1979-1983); Little Egypt Enterprises (1979-1983); Firehouse Gallery (1982-1986); Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (1985-2010); Zocalo/Templo (1989-2001); The Axiom (1987-1991); Tha Joanna (2007-2013); and Skydive (2008-2011)."

Image Credit: Artists at Lawndale Annex, 1982. Left to right: Robert Shuttlesworth, Mark Coughlin, Ed Wilson, Judy Long, Jack Massing, Kathy Wilson, Mary Jenewein, Kelly Alison, Bert Samples, and Jim Poag. (Photo by Frank Martin, Lawndale Art Center Records,University of Houston Libraries Special Collections)

LAST CALL!

Until 5pm EST TODAY Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax .cole.painter will donate one month of new Money Bootcamp sign up fees to Impractical Spaces! AND anyone who signs up before January 31st, will receive a $20 discount by using the promo code, IMPRACTICALSPACES20.

Cole is a tax professional and artist whose mission is to instill economic power in artists. She offers tax and financial services specifically geared to artists. Those who sign up for the bootcamp receive a full year of courses, checklists, one-on-one coaching plus your individual 1040 tax return filing, designed to get creative people from financial chaos to financial control. It's got a creative-centric, no-shame approach with a heavy dose of empathy and mindset work.

Copy & paste this link into browser for more Money Bootcamp information & how to register!

https://www.sunlighttax.com/moneybootcamp

Image Credit: Cosign Projects, St Louis, Exterior Exhibition View4, Leeza Meksin, Spring 2011, Courtesy of Lauren Adams

REMINDER!

Today and all day tomorrow until Monday, January 13th at 5 pm, Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax .cole.painter will donate one month of new Bootcamp sign up fees to Impractical Spaces. What's more, anyone who signs up before January 31st, will receive a $20 discount by using the promo code, IMPRACTICALSPACES20.

Cole is a tax professional and artist whose mission is to instill economic power in artists. She offers tax and financial services specifically geared to artists.

"I've invited Cole to my classrooms and used her services for years," Paddy Johnson, co-founder of Impractical Spaces. "I can confidently say that in my more than twenty-five years of filing taxes Cole is the best accountant I have ever worked with. Her bootcamp should be considered a must, for any artist seeking to take their practice to the next level."
-Paddy Johnson

Tune into Cole's Instagram Live on January 13th, 2020 at 11 am EST, where Cole will speak to co-founder Paddy Johnson in person about the bootcamp and Impractical Spaces.

Copy & paste this link into browser for more Money Bootcamp information !

https://www.sunlighttax.com/moneybootcamp

Image Credit: Cosign Projects, St Louis, Exterior Exhibition View4, Leeza Meksin, Spring 2011, Courtesy of Lauren Adams

From TODAY to Monday, January 13th at 5 pm, Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax .cole.painter will donate one month of new Bootcamp sign up fees to Impractical Spaces. What's more, anyone who signs up before January 31st, will receive a $20 discount by using the promo code, IMPRACTICALSPACES20.

Cole is a tax professional and artist whose mission is to instill economic power in artists. She offers tax and financial services specifically geared to artists.

Those who sign up for the bootcamp receive a full year of courses, checklists, one-on-one coaching plus your individual 1040 tax return filing, designed to get creative people from financial chaos to financial control. It's got a creative-centric, no-shame approach with a heavy dose of empathy and mindset work. When people sign up, they'll be reserving a priority space on Cole's tax calendar (which books up), and they get the first checklist in January, plus the January 15th training, Setting Up Your Year for Taxes. There's also a no-tax-filing option, for people happy with their accountant/DIYers who want the coaching, checklists and education without needing their taxes done.

Copy & paste this link into browser for more Money Bootcamp information !

https://www.sunlighttax.com/moneybootcamp

Image Credit: Cosign Projects, St Louis, Exterior Exhibition View4, Leeza Meksin, Spring 2011, Courtesy of Lauren Adams

We've arrived!!

Impractical Spaces a collaborative national project and groundbreaking anthology of publications that offers a historical look at defunct and active artist-run projects throughout the United States. This long term project will engage at least fifty cities in fifty states with the intent of assembling all publications for distribution in the form of a book charting the national significance of the artist-run scene.

Find out more by visiting our website-www.impracticalspaces.org

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Our six new partners for Impractical Spaces hail from all over the United States. They are leaders in their communities. Each partner has a feature on our website & a description of their local project.

Pete Gershon | Houston, TX

Iris Williamson | Portland, OR

Dulcee Boehm | Grand Rapids, MI

Melaney Mitchell and Cory Imig | Kansas City, MO

Pitirre Proyectos | Puerto Rico

Beltway Public Works | Washington DC