The idea of Art Subscriptions: Individual artists are getting into it.
March 27th, 2009 by eleanor - arts funding blog collecting resources opportunities subscription art
I have found two examples (via Exposure Compensation) of artists taking cues from the art subscription model as a way for a community to help fund their work and then reap the benefit of that support.
Dalton Rooney has started a Print of the Month Club. He’s got some interesting ideas: tiered involvement- you can sign up for 3, 6, or 12 month intervals, and he allows subscribers to occasionally skip a month if they aren’t interested in that month’s piece.
CStein is trying out another method– he asks for a monthly $10 payment support, and then at the end of the year you can get two prints from a selection he puts up for subscribers, or you can apply your contribution towards buying any other of his prints (though they are typically more expensive)
The power of collective support can be huge- and subscribers reap the benefit in lower cost works for their collections. Hooray!
Do Present Group subscribers have any choice in what they receive?
Hi Dan,
Thanks for your question. In general TPG subscribers don’t get to choose what they get, however once a year we do have a “subscriber’s choice” edition. In that case we narrow down the proposals to about five, create a page where subscribers can view the proposals, cv’s, and some images of past works, and allow them to rank their top three choices (we use instant runoff voting).
Hope this helps!
Best,
Eleanor