Sunday, April 17th 2022
Variable
West is a platform for West Coast art. They have tweeted, “Any West Coast
writers based in (or traveling to) NYC want to write about the Whitney
Biennial, focusing on the WC artists? I'm thinking critical/analytical
dispatch, 1000 words, $200.” If interested, send your pitches to hello@variablewest.com by the end of May/early
June. For details, read their Tweet
and pitch
guidelines.
Wednesday, February 23rd 2022
Variable West is a platform for West Coast art. They are looking for pitches. They have 5 pitch categories: Love Letters, The Why, Pairings, Exhibition Reviews and Artist Interviews.
-Love Letters: Micro essays of 200-250 words on artists we can’t stop thinking about. Rate: $50
-The Why: Stories of 200-300 words on what inspires West Coast creatives. Rate: $50
-Pairings: “Art that makes us think of food and food that makes us think of art.” Rate: $75 for 300-400 words
-Exhibition Reviews and Artist Interviews: for exhibition reviews (600-800 words) and interviews (2,000 words), they are accepting pitches on the theme of “Staying With the Trouble a la Donna Haraway.” Rate: $150
For
more information, refer to their Twitter
thread and call for
pitches.
Thursday, September 24th 2020
Variable West is a platform for West
Coast art. They are accepting exhibition review and artist interview pitches on
the theme of “Staying With the Trouble.” Taken from Donna Haraway’s book “Staying
with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene,” the phrase encourages us to
consider how “[our] task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a
practice of learning to live and die well with each other in a thick present.
Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events,
as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.” They will pay
$150 per exhibition review (600 to 800 words). The exhibition must take place
in California, Oregon, or Washington. They will pay $150 per artist interview
(2,000 words). The artist must be living or working in California, Oregon, or
Washington. For details, refer to their founder/editor-in-chief’s Tweet
and their call for pitches.
Thursday, August 20th 2020
Variable West is a platform
for West Coast art. They are accepting pitches for their new column, Love
Letters which features “micro essays on artists we can’t stop thinking about.” “The
artist must be living and working (or lived/worked, if the artist is dead) in
California, Oregon, or Washington, but doesn’t need to have work up in an
exhibition.” They encourage pitches from West Coast writers. They will pay $50
for 200 to 250 words. To learn more, refer to their founder/editor-in-chief’s Twitter
thread and this page.