How to Submit

Wanna submit? Note that there is not one set format for our features - each is meant to be the writer’s choice of an interesting way to frame a compelling artist. Articles can be academic or personal, in interview form, or written as an experience. They can be about the artist’s entire career thus far, a series or body of work, one single work, an exhibition, a collaboration (or series of them), or anything else you see fit. Articles can be any length, but we aim for them to be more than 700 and less than 2500 words. You must submit images, too! Be sure to establish how you plan to conceptually frame your artist, and in what format, in the document you send us! If you are an artist, you must find a writer to work on your feature; if you are a writer, read on (again, you CANNOT write about yourself):

• Prepare one paragraph about the artist, one paragraph about yourself, and one paragraph about the format and focus of your article.
• Send these, along with one writing sample and 1-3 images of the artist’s work, to saartemerging@gmail.com
• If there is an upcoming exhibition or performance that you’d like to launch the feature in accordance with, please let us know dates.
• Be sure both you and the artist agree to publish this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License.

About SAartsEmerging

SAartsEmerging.org was originally founded by Nathaniel Stern, Bronwyn Lace and Simon Gush in January 2006 and is currently maintained by Bronwyn Lace and Rat Western.

The site’s featured artists function loosely as a collective and have to date had two physical manifestations, one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town featuring artists from Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and Grahamstown.

SAarts provides a free South African alternative to the gallery-driven and mainstream media platforms in this country. SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet been, written about - but who should be. We aim to ‘discover’ and profile a variety of early-career non-stars working conceptually, and across disciplines.

Once per month, we publish feature/bios on one artist and their work. We accept submissions for these bios, but artists CANNOT write about themselves, and everything is subject to our approval. We want writers we like, to write about artists we like, and sometimes we write the features ourselves. Note that all content is also under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License, so be sure you and the featured artist agree to this. See submission guidelines.